John Taylor Maurer received his BS in Software Engineering from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2022 and is now pursuing a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. He worked as a Graduate Assistant at USF (2023–2024), and, in 2025, he became a funded Trainee of the USF NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program for semiconductor design, manufacturing, and packaging. His research interests mainly include Computing-in-Memory (CiM) architectures, Boolean logic mapping to novel hardware architectures, emerging memory technologies (FeFET and RRAM), and quantum computing circuit design.
Ahmed Mamdouh Mohamed Ahmed is a third-year PhD student at the University of South Florida. He earned his MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus in 2022 and his BSc (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University in 2018. His research focuses on compute-in-memory-based accelerators and innovative accelerator architectures utilizing emerging devices.
Parsa Khorrami is a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. He holds an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Tarbiat Modares University and a BSc from the University of Zanjan. He has been a Graduate Assistant at USF since fall 2023. His research spans machine learning, deep learning applications in biomedical devices, AI accelerators, and computer architecture.
Sabrina Hassan Moon (Student Member, IEEE) received a BS degree from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. She is currently working toward a PhD in computer science and engineering with the University of South Florida. Her research interests include computing in memory, hardware–software co-design for machine learning applications, emerging devices, device characterization, and VLSI. She is a devoted individual committed to promoting women’s contributions in academia.
Dr. Dayane Alfenas Reis (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF). She specializes in circuit and architecture design using beyond-CMOS devices for computing-in-memory accelerators, with applications in data-intensive computing and hardware security. She has a strong track record of research productivity, having published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier venues such as IEEE TC, IEEE TVLSI, IEEE TCAD, IEEE Design & Test, Nature Electronics, and leading conferences including DAC, DATE, ICCAD, ISLPED, and ASP-DAC. Her work has been recognized with a Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE ISLPED 2018. The PI is actively engaged in the research community, serving on technical program committees for major conferences (DAC, ICCAD, ASP-DAC, GLSVLSI, ISVLSI, HPCA, and DATE).