About

Kian Mahmoodi is a first-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, advised by Professor Mohammad Alian at Alian Research Group. His research interests are in computer architecture and memory-system co-design for modern AI systems, with a focus on heterogeneous memory hierarchies and architectures that reduce data movement in large-scale AI workloads. More broadly, he is interested in designing memory and computing systems that improve the efficiency, scalability, and deployability of emerging AI workloads.

Before joining the Alian Research Group, he worked with Professor Cheng Zhang in the SciFi Lab on hardware prototyping for wearable computing and HCI research.

News

2026

• Presenting at YArch’26 workshop at ISCA 2026 and attending the conference.
• Awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP), funding three years of my PhD.
• Awarded the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering Robert F. Smith Graduate Fellowship, funding my first year at Cornell.

2025

• Attended the Future Memory Summit (FMS 2025) to learn about emerging memory technologies and connect with researchers and industry members.
• Presented preliminary work at the ACE Center for Evolvable Computing Annual Meeting.
• Awarded summer funding through the Cornell Engineering Undergraduate Research Grant.
• Paper accepted to ISWC 2025 on acoustic sensing for grip-force estimation.
• Received the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention.

2024

• Received REU funding for Intelligent Wearables with Acoustic Sensing research