News | Asal Mehradfar

August 2026Fellowship

Selected as a 2026 Capital One Fellow

Selected for the Capital One Fellowship through the USC Capital One Center for Responsible AI and Decision-Making in Finance (CREDIF), recognizing graduate research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and engineering.

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July 2026 Publication

LANTERN Published in Nature Portfolio

A machine-learning benchmarking framework for lipid nanoparticle transfection efficiency prediction, published in Communications AI & Computing, a Nature Portfolio journal.

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June 2026 Presentation

ATHENA Presented at the CVPR ViSCALE Workshop

A test-time steering framework for improving count fidelity in diffusion models, presented at the Test-Time Scaling for Computer Vision (ViSCALE) Workshop held in conjunction with the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026.

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January 2026 Publication

EM-Aware Physical Synthesis Accepted to IEEE ISCAS 2026

An electromagnetics-aware physical synthesis framework for RF integrated circuits, accepted to the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2026.

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December 2025 Presentation

FALCON Presented at NeurIPS 2025

A machine-learning framework for fully automated layout-constrained analog circuit design, presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).

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September 2025 Publication

FALCON Accepted to NeurIPS 2025

A machine-learning framework for fully automated layout-constrained analog circuit design, accepted to the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).

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July 2025 Presentation

LLM Routing Presented at an ICML 2025 Workshop

An uncertainty-aware framework for efficient large language model routing, presented at the Collaborative and Federated Agentic Workflows Workshop held in conjunction with the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2025.

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June 2025Conference

Attended CVPR 2025 in Nashville

Attended the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee, to engage with recent advances in computer vision and machine learning.

June 2025 Presentation

CryptoMamba Presented at IEEE ICBC 2025

A state-space-model framework for Bitcoin price prediction, presented at the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC) 2025.

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February 2025 Recognition

Selected as a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist

Selected as a finalist for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, recognizing outstanding graduate research in engineering and applied sciences.

December 2024 Award

AICircuit Received the NeurIPS Workshop Reproducibility Award

The AICircuit benchmark received the Reproducibility Award at the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop held in conjunction with NeurIPS 2024.

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September 2024Publication

AICircuit Accepted to the NeurIPS ML for Physical Sciences Workshop

A multi-level dataset and benchmark for AI-driven analog integrated circuit design, accepted to the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop held in conjunction with NeurIPS 2024.

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