Maryam Parsa

Dr. Maryam Parsa is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at George Mason University. Prior to joining Mason, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Beyond Moore Computing group. She received her PhD in Electrical and computer engineering from the Center for Brain-Inspired Computing (C-BRIC) at Purdue University in December 2020 with a prestigious four-year Intel Corporation, and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) PhD fellowship.

Parsa has broad interests in the areas of neuromorphic computing, neural architecture search, and Bayesian optimization across the full stack of materials, devices, circuits, systems, algorithms, and applications. Her research involves developing causal and physics-based machine learning and Bayesian optimization to accelerate materials discovery. Further, in her focus on neuromorphic computing, her goal is to not only enable accurate, fast, energy-efficient, and resilient intelligence at the edge through algorithm-hardware codesign, but also to develop novel hierarchical learning/training approaches based on Bayesian optimization, evolutionary optimization, and synaptic learning rules. She is interested in a wide range of applications such as computational neuroscience, smart healthcare diagnosis, and cyber-physical systems.