Academic Awards
- Won the UCR Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award at UC Riverside in 2024.
- Received the Excellent Service badge in all three cycles of ASPLOS’24 Artifact Evaluation at ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, San Diego, 2024 (Certificate of Appreciation).
- Won UCR GSA Travel Grant Award at University of California, Riverside, 2023.
- Won Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship Award at University of California, Riverside, 2019.
- Ranked 7th in terms of total GPA among 83 Computer Engineering students in Sharif University of Technology (Top 8%), 2018.
- 1st Rank, Achievement of the highest GPA in B.Sc among all Computer Engineering graduated students in Shahed University, 2015.
Mahbod Afarin
PhD Candidate
Mahbod Afarin is a PhD Candidate of computer science and engineering at the University of California Riverside advised by Professor Rajiv Gupta and Professor Nael Abu-Ghazaleh. His research interests include Computer Architecture, Compiler Optimization, and Graph Processing Hardware and Accelerators.