Publications by Alireza Amirshahi

Enabling Deep Learning Models for Seizure Monitoring within Wearables Lifecycle

Continuous monitoring of various physiological conditions enables early detection of potential health issues. The monitoring offers real-time insights into patient well-being and rapid medical interventions. As a case study, in epilepsy, a prevalent neurol ...

EPFL2025

M2SKD: Multi-to-Single Knowledge Distillation of Real-Time Epileptic Seizure Detection for Low-Power Wearable Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Saleh Baghersalimi, Farnaz Forooghifar, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Alireza Amirshahi

Integrating low-power wearable systems into routine health monitoring is an ongoing challenge. Recent advances in the computation capabilities of wearables make it possible to target complex scenarios by exploiting multiple biosignals and using high-perfor ...

2024

FETCH: A Fast and Efficient Technique for Channel Selection in EEG Wearable Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Alireza Amirshahi, José Angel Miranda Calero, Jonathan Dan

The rapid development of wearable biomedical systems now enables real-time monitoring of electroencephalography (EEG) signals. Acquisition of these signals relies on electrodes. These systems must meet the design challenge of selecting an optimal set of el ...

2024

Accelerator-driven Data Arrangement to Minimize Transformers Run-time on Multi-core Architectures

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alireza Amirshahi

The increasing complexity of transformer models in artificial intelligence expands their computational costs, memory usage, and energy consumption. Hardware acceleration tackles the ensuing challenges by designing processors and accelerators tailored for t ...

2024

PlugVFL: Robust and IP-Protecting Vertical Federated Learning against Unexpected Quitting of Parties

David Atienza Alonso, Saleh Baghersalimi, Alireza Amirshahi

In federated learning systems, the unexpected quitting of participants is inevitable. Such quittings generally do not incur serious consequences in horizontal federated learning (HFL), but they do damage to vertical federated learning (VFL), which has been ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

SzCORE: Seizure Community Open-Source Research Evaluation framework for the validation of electroencephalography-based automated seizure detection algorithms

David Atienza Alonso, William Cappelletti, Una Pale, Alireza Amirshahi, Jonathan Dan

The need for high-quality automated seizure detection algorithms based on electroencephalography (EEG) becomes ever more pressing with the increasing use of ambulatory and long-term EEG monitoring. Heterogeneity in validation methods of these algorithms in ...

2024

FVLLMONTI: The 3D Neural Network Compute Cube (N2C2) Concept for Efficient Transformer Architectures Towards Speech-to-Speech Translation

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alireza Amirshahi

This multi-partner-project contribution introduces the midway results of the Horizon 2020 FVLLMONTI project. In this project we develop a new and ultra-efficient class of ANN accelerators, the neural network compute cube (N2C2), which is specifically desig ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Predicting Survey Response with Quotation-based Modeling: A Case Study on Favorability towards the United States

Saleh Baghersalimi, Jonathan Philippe Reymond, Alireza Amirshahi

The acquisition of survey responses is a crucial component in conducting research aimed at comprehending public opinion. However, survey data collection can be arduous, time-consuming, and expensive, with no assurance of an adequate response rate. In this ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

TiC-SAT: Tightly-coupled Systolic Accelerator for Transformers

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alireza Amirshahi, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

Transformer models have achieved impressive results in various AI scenarios, ranging from vision to natural language processing. However, their computational complexity and their vast number of parameters hinder their implementations on resource-constraine ...

2023

Layer-Wise Learning Framework for Efficient DNN Deployment in Biomedical Wearable Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Saleh Baghersalimi, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Alireza Amirshahi

The development of low-power wearable systems requires specialized techniques to accommodate their unique requirements and constraints. While significant advancements have been made in the inference phase of artificial intelligence, the training phase rema ...

2023

M2D2: Maximum-Mean-Discrepancy Decoder for Temporal Localization of Epileptic Brain Activities

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Alireza Amirshahi, Anthony Hitchcock Thomas

Recent years have seen growing interest in leveraging deep learning models for monitoring epilepsy patients based on electroencephalographic (EEG) signals. However, these approaches often exhibit poor generalization when applied outside of the setting in w ...

2022

EpilepsyGAN: Synthetic Epileptic Brain Activities with Privacy Preservation

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Damián Pascual Ortiz, Alireza Amirshahi

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder affecting more than 65 million people worldwide and manifested by recurrent unprovoked seizures. The unpredictability of seizures not only degrades the quality of life of the patients, but it can also be life-thr ...

2021