Welcome to CADS-LAB


Dear Visitor:

Welcome to Computer Architecture and Dependable Systems (CADS) laboratory website. Our researches focus on embedded machine learning, brain-inspired computing, reliability, and the Internet of Things (IoT). All related things to CADS-Lab, including news, publications, open-source tools, etc. are updated on this website, regularly.

CADS-Lab is located in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Notice (09/2026): Contact me for more information (o.akbari@modares.ac.ir).

Recent News:

  1. 2026/05: Congratulations to Mr. Reza Ghorbansiahi for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis.
  2. 2026/05: Congratulations to Mr. Ali Mirhosseini for successfully defending his M.Sc. thesis.

Recent Publications:

  1. M. Malekzadeh, O. Akbari, and B. Ebrahimi “Probability-Driven Approximate Multipliers with Error-Distance Balancing for Multimedia and ML Applications,” in AEUE – International Journal of Electronics and Communications , Sep. 2026.
  2. F. Hosseinkhani and O. Akbari, “A Reinforcement Learning-Based Task Mapping Method to Improve the Reliability of Clustered Manycores,” in IEEE Access , vol. 13, pp. 123460-123472, Jul. 2025.
  3. J. Vafaei and O. Akbari “HPR-Mul: An Area and Energy-Efficient High-Precision Redundancy Multiplier by Approximate Computing,” accepted in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems vol. 32, no. 11, pp. 2012-2022, Nov. 2024.

Current Research Areas

  • Embedded machine learning
  • Distributed learning
  • Internet of things
  • Hardware Security
  • Brain-inspired computing
  • Machine learning for reliability and safety-critical systems
  • Energy management and security in smart buildings
  • Hardware implementation of advanced neural networks on FPGA

Collaborations with other Universities:

  1. Professor Massoud Pedram, University of Southern California
  2. Professor Ali Afzali-Kusha, University of Tehran
  3. Professor Christian Hochberger, Technische Universität Darmstadt
  4. Professor Muhammad Shafique, New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi
  5. Dr. Mehdi Kamal, University of Tehran
  6. Dr. Behzad Ebrahimi, Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch