Dr. Amirali Baniasadi received his B.S. degree in electronics and electrical engineering from Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, in 1993. He received his M.S. degree in digital electronics from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1995.

He received his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA in 2002. He is currently an associate professor at the ECE department of University of Victoria, Canada. His major research interest is finding new ways to design modern processors. In particular, he has been working on developing microarchitectural techniques to reduce power dissipation and improve performance in modern processors.

Dr. Baniasadi has served on several program committees including IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems and Architectures and Processors and Workshop on Chip Multiprocessor Memory Systems and Interconnects. He has served as a reviewer for many prestigious journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Computers and Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization.