Work Experience
Ultra high-speed Nonlinear Integrated Circuits Lab (UNIC)
University of Michigan, 01/2025 - 05/2026
uDoppler: Recovering acoustic waves through micro-doppler measurements at sub-THz.
IC: Design of one-port reflection amplifier at 77GHz on ST 55nm BiCMOS.
Rotman: Design of retroreflector architectures for passive beamforming and asset detection.
FMCW: Design of a discrete high-performance frequency modulated continuous wave radar.
Michigan eXploration Laboratory
University of Michigan, 05/2023 - 05/2025
ULWT: Designing RF circuitry for a low-cost, ultra light-weight tracker for near-space asset tracking and wireless communication.
DTN: Research into dynamic network reconfiguration for adhoc delay tolerant networks. Presented at AIAA SciTech 2025.
F Prime: A JPL-funded project team working on applications of F`, a flight software framework. Helping develop integrations with it and Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocols, specifically NASA's ION-DTN structure.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA, 05/2024 - 08/2024
Designed flight software deployment topologies, their hierarchies, and hardware-software interfaces within JPL's F Prime embedded system framework. Architected novel syntax for behavior segmentation patterns within F Prime and small scale flight software using autocoders, semantic code analysis, and Python/Scala. Designed package management and delivery mechanisms for F Prime.
Scalable Architecture Lab
William & Mary, 02/2022 - 12/2023
AkitaRTM: A real-time monitoring tool for computer architecture simulations, aimed at making high-performance computing apps more acceptable.
Yuzawa: A Simulation-as-a-Service platform aimed at providing anyone with a tool to develop complex hardware configurations, with 0 knowledge of coding required.
NUCAR Lab
Northeastern University, 06/2019 - 07/2022
Daisen: A data visualization tool for computer architecture simulators, built on Akita, an architecture simulator framework.
NaviSim: A Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) simulator for AMD’s new RDNA instruction-set architecture. Also built upon Akita.
Publications
Ali Mosallaei, Amirata Tabatabavakili, Ehsan Afshari 2026. A Review of Dielectric Stack Simplification in On-Chip mm-Wave EM Simulation Speed-Up. To be published at IEEE AP-S.
Ali Ghazizadeh Ghalati, Aditya Varma Muppala, Ali Mosallaei, Morteza Tavakoli Taba, Behzad Yektakhah, Kamal Sarabandi, Ehsan Afshari 2026. Beyond Imaging: A 256-GHz Superheterodyne FMCW Radar System for 3-D Imaging and Micro-Doppler-Based Sound Reconstruction. IEEE MWTL.
Ali Mosallaei, Daniil Voloshin, James W. Cutler 2025. Demonstrating and Analyzing the Effects of Dynamic Contact Graphs in Improving Wireless Adhoc Delay Tolerant Networks through a Simulated Stratospheric Testbed. AIAA SciTech Forum 2025.
Ali Mosallaei, Kate Isaacs, Yifan Sun 2024. Looking into the Black Box: Monitoring Computer Architecture Simulations in Real-Time with AkitaRTM. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2024).
This publication was presented at CAMS '23.
Yifan Sun, Yixuan Zhang, Ali Mosallaei, Michael D. Shah, Cody Dunne, David Kaeli. 2021. Daisen: A Framework for Visualizing Detailed GPU Execution. The 23rd EG Conference on Visualization (EuroVis ’21).
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