Dr. Asadinia joined California State University, Northridge, in the Department of Computer Science. Before joining Northridge, she held positions as an Assistant Professor at both Cal Poly Humboldt University and Bradley University. From 2017 to 2020, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Oregon State University and University of Arkansas.
Dr. Asadinia leads the Modern Computing and Communication Architectures (MOCCA) Lab at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Her research interests include advanced computer architecture, emerging memory technologies, machine learning, deep learning, processing-in-memory/near-memory, and Network-on-Chip (NoC) designs. She has published her work in prestigious venues such as DAC, FCCM, IEEE TVLSI, ACM TODAES, and the Journal of Supercomputing. She has also published a book in Elsevier's Advances in Computers series, focusing on Durable Phase-Change Memory (PCM) technology.
Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and industry partners such as Caterpillar Inc. She has received several awards for her research contributions, including the Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (RSCA) Award in 2025, Best Paper Presentation Awards at IEEE CCWC 2025 and IEEE AIIoT 2025, the Outstanding Research Competition Award at Cal Poly Humboldt in 2023, the Best Poster Award at the CCSC NW Conference in 2022, and the Best Award at IEEE CVPR in 2018.
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Postdoctoral Computer Science and Computer Engineering 2020, University of Arkansas
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Postdoctoral Computer Science and Computer Engineering 2017, Oregon State University
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Ph.D. Computer Engineering 2016, Sharif University of Technology
