Sepideh Safari

• September 2019 - April 2021
  • Visiting Researcher
  • The Chair for Embedded Systems, Karlsruhe Istitute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
  • Advisor: Prof. Jörg Henkel
  • Research Title: Resource Management in Embedded Systems



• September 2016 - September 2021
  • Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
  • Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
  • Advisor: Dr. Shaahin Hessabi
  • Dissertation: Joint energy and reliability management in mixed-criticality systems
  • GPA= 19.92 (out of 20)


• September 2014 - September 2016
  • M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Computer System Architecture)
  • Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
  • Advisor: Dr. Alireza Ejlali
  • GPA= 19.83 (out of 20)


• September 2010 - September 2014
  • B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Computer System Architecture)
  • Engineering Department, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.
  • Advisor: Dr. Naser Mohammadzadeh
  • GPA= 17.56 (out of 20)

Journal Papers:

1. Sepideh Safari, Heba Khdr, Pourya Gohari-Nazari, Mohsen Ansari, Shaahin Hessabi, and Jörg Henkel, “TherMa-MiCs: Thermal-Aware Scheduling for Fault-Tolerant Mixed-Criticality Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, in press.

2. Mohsen Ansari Sepideh Safari, Heba Khdr, Pourya Gohari-Nazari, Jörg Henkel, Alireza Ejlali, and Shaahin Hessabi, “Power-Aware Checkpointing for Multicore Embedded Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 33, no. 12, pp. 4410-4424, 2022.

3. Sepideh Safari, Mohsen Ansari, Heba Khdr, Pourya Gohari-Nazari, Sina Yari-Karin, Amir Yeganeh Khaksar,Shaahin Hessabi, Alireza Ejlali, and Jörg Henkel, “A Survey of Fault-Tolerance Techniques for Embedded Systems from the Perspective of Power, Energy, and Thermal Issues,” IEEE Access , vol. 10, pp. 12229-12251, 2022.

4. Mohsen Ansari, Sepideh Safari, Sina Yari-Karin, Pourya Gohari-Nazari, Heba Khdr, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel, and Alireza Ejlali, “Thermal-Aware Standby-Sparing Technique on Hetereogeneous Real-Time Embedded Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, in press.

5. Hoora Sobhani, Sepideh Safari, Javad Saber-Latibari, and Shaahin Hessabi, “REALISM: Reliability-Aware Energy Management in Multi-Level Mixed-Criticality Systems with Service Level Degradation,” in Journal of Systems Architecture, In Press.

6. Amin Naghavi, Sepideh Safari, and Shaahin Hessabi, “Tolerating Permanent Faults with Low-Energy Overhead in Multicore Mixed-Criticality Systems,” in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, In Press.

7. Amir Yeganeh-Khaksar, Mohsen Ansari, Sepideh Safari, Sina Yari-Karin, and Alireza Ejlali, “Ring-DVFS: Reliability-Aware Reinforcement Learning-Based DVFS for Real-Time Embedded Systems,” IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, In Press.

8. Mohsen Ansari, Mohammad Salehi, Sepideh Safari, Alireza Ejlali, and Muhammad Shafique, “Peak-Power-Aware Primary-Backup Technique for Efficient Fault-Tolerance in Multicore Embedded Systems,” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 142843-142857, 2020.

9. Sepideh Safari, Shaahin Hessabi,and Ghazal Ershadi, “LESS-MICS: A Low Energy Standby-Sparing Scheme for Mixed-Criticality Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 4601-4610, Dec. 2020.

10. Mohsen Ansari, Amir Yeganeh-Khaksar, Sepideh Safari, and Alireza Ejlali, “Peak-Power-Aware Energy Management for Periodic Real-Time Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 779-788, April 2020.

11. Sepideh Safari, Mohsen Ansari, Ghazal Ershadi, and Shaahin Hessabi, “On the Scheduling of Energy-Aware Fault-Tolerant Mixed-Criticality Multicore Systems with Service Guarantee Exploration,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 2338-2354, 1 Oct. 2019.

12. Mohsen Ansari, Sepideh Safari, Amir Yeganeh-Khaksar, Mohammad Salehi, and Alireza Ejlali, “Peak Power Management to Meet Thermal Design Power in Fault-Tolerant Embedded Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, , vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 161-173, 1 Jan. 2019.

13. Sepideh Safari, Mohsen Ansari, Mohammad Salehi, and Alireza Ejlali, “Energy-Budget-Aware Reliability Management in Multi-Core Embedded Systems with Hybrid Energy Source,” The CSI Journal on Computer Science and Engineering (JCSE), vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 31-43, 2018.

14. Mohsen Ansari, Sepideh Safari, Farimah R.Poursafaei, Mohammad Salehi, and Alireza Ejlali, “AdDQ: Low-Energy Hardware Replication for Real-Time Systems through Adaptive Dual Queue Scheduling,” The CSI Journal on Computer Science and Engineering (JCSE), vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 31-38, 2017.

Conference Papers:

1. Farimah R.Poursafaei, Sepideh Safari, Mohsen Ansari, Amir Yeganeh-Khaksar, Mohammad Salehi, and Alireza Ejlali, “Energy-and Reliability-Aware Task Replication in Safety-Critical Embedded Systems,” Proc. of the 4th Int'l of the CSI Symposium on Real-Time and Embedded Systems and Technologies (RTEST), Tehran, Iran, May, 2022.

2. Farimah R.Poursafaei, Sepideh Safari, Mohsen Ansari, Mohammad Salehi, and Alireza Ejlali, “Offline Replication and Online Energy Management for Hard Real-Time Multicore Systems,” Proc. of the 1th Int'l of the CSI Symposium on Real-Time and Embedded Systems and Technologies (RTEST), Tehran, Iran, October, 2015.

3. Zahra Shirmohammadi, Mohsen Ansari , Sanaz Kazemi, Sepideh Safari and Seyed-Ghasem Miremadi, “PAM: a Packet Manipulation Mechanism for Mitigating the Crosstalk Faults in NoCs,” Proc. of the 13th IEEE Int'l Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and secure computing (DASC), Liverpool, England, October, 2015.

4. Hoora Sobhani, Sepideh Safari, and Shaahin Hessabi, “Energy- and Reliability-Aware Preference-Oriented Task Mapping and Scheduling in Multicore Mixed-Criticality Embedded Systems,” Proc. of the 24th International Computer Conference, Computer Society of Iran, Tehran, Iran, 2019 (in Persian).

5. Sepideh Safari, Mohsen Ansari, Zahra Shirmohammadi, and Seyed-Ghasem Miremadi, “The effects of Error Correction and Detection Codes on The Reliability Improvement of NoCs against Crosstalk Faults,” Proc. of the 7th Int'l Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology, Urmia, Iran, May, 2015 (in Persian).

1. Hoora Sobhani, “Energy-Aware Task Mapping and Scheduling in Multicore Mixed-Criticality Embedded Systems,” Sharif University of Technology, MSc Thesis, 2019.

2. Amin Naghavi, “Reliability-Aware Energy Management for Mixed-Criticality Systems on Multicores,” Sharif University of Technology, MSc Thesis, 2020.

3. Amirhasan Safizadeh, “Energy-Aware Fault-Tolerant Mapping of Mixed-Criticality Tasks on Heterogeneous Multicore Systems,” Sharif University of Technology, MSc Thesis, 2020.

4. Pourya Gohari-Nazari, “Thermal Management in Fault-Tolerant Mixed-Criticality Multicore Systems,” Sharif University of Technology, MSc Thesis, 2021.

Received the Dr. Chamran award (Postdoctoral position) from the national elites’foundation of Iran, 2021.

Elected as a national talent, Iran, 2016-present.

Elected as the premier teacher assistant at Sharif University of Technology, 2017.

Admitted to the Ph.D. program at Sharif University of Technology as an Exceptional Talented Student, 2016.

Admitted to the M.sc. program at Sharif University of Technology as an Exceptional Talented Student, 2014.

Ranked 2nd among graduated Ph.D. students at Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2021.

Ranked 1st out of 1000 graduated Master’s students at Sharif University of Technology, 2016.

Ranked 1st among 42 graduated Master’s students in computer architecture, computer engineering department, Sharif University of Technology, 2016..

Admitted as an Exceptional Talented Student at Sharif University of Technology for M.Sc programs, 2014.

Ranked 2nd among 37 graduated Bachelor’s students in computer engineering, computer engineering department, Shahed University, 2014.

Associate Editor of Microprocessors and Microsystems (MICPRO), Elsevier, May 2022-present.