Peer-reviewed publications and research manuscripts spanning AI-driven circuit design, lipid nanoparticle engineering, generative models, large language models, and financial systems.
Asal Mehradfar*,
Mohammad Shahab Sepehri*,
Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato, Glen S. Kwon, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Salman Avestimehr, and Morteza Rasoulianboroujeni
@inproceedings{huang2026emaware,
title = {{EM-Aware Physical Synthesis: Neural Inductor Modeling and Intelligent Placement \& Routing for RF Circuits}},
author = {Huang, Yilun and Mehradfar, Asal and Avestimehr, Salman and Aghasi, Hamidreza},
booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)},
year = {2026}
}
@article{mehradfar2026extrahepatic,
title = {{Decoding Extrahepatic Targeting of Lipid Nanoparticles with Interpretable Machine Learning}},
author = {Mehradfar, Asal and Sepehri, Mohammad Shahab and Antholine, Owen and Shankar, Varun and Kwon, Glen S. and Avestimehr, Salman and Rasoulianboroujeni, Morteza},
year = {2026},
note = {Manuscript in preparation}
}
@inproceedings{mehradfar2026lantern,
title = {{A Machine Learning Benchmarking Framework for Lipid Nanoparticle Transfection Efficiency Prediction}},
author = {Mehradfar, Asal and Sepehri, Mohammad Shahab and Hernandez-Lobato, Jose Miguel and Kwon, Glen S. and Soltanolkotabi, Mahdi and Avestimehr, Salman and Rasoulianboroujeni, Morteza},
booktitle = {Communications AI \& Computing},
publisher = {Nature Portfolio},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1038/s44488-026-00007-x},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s44488-026-00007-x}
}
@article{sepehri2026athena,
title = {{ATHENA: Adaptive Test-Time Steering for Improving Count Fidelity in Diffusion Models}},
author = {Sepehri, Mohammad Shahab and Mehradfar, Asal and Tinaz, Berk and Avestimehr, Salman and Soltanolkotabi, Mahdi},
journal = {ViSCALE Workshop at CVPR},
year = {2026}
}
@inproceedings{mehradfar2025falcon,
title = {{FALCON: An ML Framework for Fully Automated Layout-Constrained Analog Circuit Design}},
author = {Mehradfar, Asal and Zhao, Xuzhe and Huang, Yilun and Ceyani, Emir and Yang, Yankai and Han, Shihao and Aghasi, Hamidreza and Avestimehr, Salman},
booktitle = {The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
year = {2025}
}
@article{mehradfar2025supervised,
title = {{Supervised Learning for Analog and RF Circuit Design: Benchmarks and Comparative Insights}},
author = {Mehradfar, Asal and Zhao, Xuzhe and Niu, Yinuo and Babakniya, Sina and Alesheikh, Mohammad and Aghasi, Hamidreza and Avestimehr, Salman},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11839},
year = {2025},
eprint = {2501.11839},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11839}
}
@inproceedings{sepehri2025cryptomamba,
title = {{CryptoMamba: Leveraging State Space Models for Accurate Bitcoin Price Prediction}},
author = {Sepehri, Mohammad Shahab and Mehradfar, Asal and Soltanolkotabi, Mahdi and Avestimehr, Salman},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)},
year = {2025}
}
@article{zhang2025llmrouting,
title = {{Leveraging Uncertainty Estimation for Efficient LLM Routing}},
author = {Zhang, Tuo and Mehradfar, Asal and Dimitriadis, Dimitrios and Avestimehr, Salman},
journal = {CFAgentic Workshop at ICML},
year = {2025}
}
@article{mehradfar2024aicircuit,
title = {{AICircuit: A Multi-Level Dataset and Benchmark for AI-Driven Analog Integrated Circuit Design}},
author = {Mehradfar, Asal and Zhao, Xuzhe and Niu, Yinuo and Babakniya, Sina and Alesheikh, Mohammad and Aghasi, Hamidreza and Avestimehr, Salman},
journal = {ML4PS Workshop at NeurIPS},
year = {2024}
}