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Computer Science

D-Index
57
Citations
11619
World Ranking
3880
National Ranking
1834

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
57
Citations
11233
World Ranking
1993
National Ranking
781

Overview

Frank Vahid is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside, in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on applications within this domain. The subfields of study include Computer Science Applications, Education, Media Technology, Software, and Information Systems.

The scientist's work centers on topics such as Teaching and Learning Programming, Online Learning and Analytics, Experimental Learning in Engineering, Innovative Teaching Methods, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Open Education and E-Learning, and Library Collection Development and Digital Resources.

Frequent collaborators include Roman Lysecky, Chelsea Gordon, Joe Allen, Alex Edgcomb, and Nabeel Alzahrani.

Frank Vahid has contributed to several publications in notable venues such as the 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings, the 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings, the 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), IEEE Transactions on Education, and the International Journal of Research in Education and Science.

  • "The shift from static college textbooks to customizable content: A case study at zyBooks," 2021, 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
  • "The Rise of Program Auto-grading in Introductory CS Courses: A Case Study of zyLabs," 2024, 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings
  • "Improving Pass Rates by Switching from a Passive to an Active Learning Textbook in CS0," 2020, 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings
  • "Common Logic Errors for Programming Learners: A Three-decade Literature Survey," 2021, 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings
  • "Less Is More: Students Skim Lengthy Online Textbooks," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Education

Best Publications

  • Specification and Design of Embedded Systems

    Daniel D. Gajski;Frank Vahid;Sanjiv Narayan;Jie Gong

  • Embedded System Design: A Unified Hardware / Software Introduction

    Frank Vahid;Tony Givargis

  • A Survey on Concepts, Applications, and Challenges in Cyber-Physical Systems

    Volkan Gunes;Steffen Peter;Tony Givargis;Frank Vahid

  • A highly configurable cache architecture for embedded systems

    Chuanjun Zhang;Frank Vahid;Walid Najjar

  • Specification and design of embedded hardware-software systems

    D.D. Gajski;F. Vahid

  • System-level exploration for pareto-optimal configurations in parameterized systems-on-a-chip

    Tony Givargis;Frank Vahid;Jörg Henkel

  • A quantitative analysis of the speedup factors of FPGAs over processors

    Zhi Guo;Walid Najjar;Frank Vahid;Kees Vissers

  • Platune: a tuning framework for system-on-a-chip platforms

    T. Givargis;F. Vahid

  • Dynamic hardware/software partitioning: a first approach

    Greg Stitt;Roman Lysecky;Frank Vahid

  • A binary-constraint search algorithm for minimizing hardware during hardware/software partitioning

    Frank Vahid;Daniel D. Gajski;Jie Gong

  • Warp Processors

    Roman Lysecky;Greg Stitt;Frank Vahid

  • A self-tuning cache architecture for embedded systems

    Chuanjun Zhang;Frank Vahid;Roman Lysecky

  • Specification partitioning for system design

    F. Vahid;D. D. Gajski

  • A Way-Halting Cache for Low-Energy High-Performance Systems

    Chuanjun Zhang;F. Vahid;Jun Yang;W. Walid

  • SpecSyn: an environment supporting the specify-explore-refine paradigm for hardware/software system design

    D.D. Gajski;F. Vahid;S. Narayan;Jie Gong

  • A way-halting cache for low-energy high-performance systems

    Chuanjun Zhang;Frank Vahid;Jun Yang;Walid Najjar

  • A way-halting cache for low-energy high-performance systems

    Chuanjun Zhang;Frank Vahid;Jun Yang;Walid Najjar

  • Enabling nonexpert construction of basic sensor-based systems

    Susan Lysecky;Frank Vahid

  • A Study of the Speedups and Competitiveness of FPGA Soft Processor Cores using Dynamic Hardware/Software Partitioning

    Roman Lysecky;Frank Vahid

  • Fast Configurable-Cache Tuning With a Unified Second-Level Cache

    A. Gordon-Ross;F. Vahid;N.D. Dutt

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel D. Gajski
Daniel D. Gajski University of California, Irvine
Walid Najjar
Walid Najjar University of California, Riverside
Jorg Henkel
Jorg Henkel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Nikil Dutt
Nikil Dutt University of California, Irvine
Stefano Lonardi
Stefano Lonardi University of California, Riverside
Jun Yang
Jun Yang University of Pittsburgh
Rakesh Kumar
Rakesh Kumar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dean M. Tullsen
Dean M. Tullsen University of California, San Diego
Yonghui Wu
Yonghui Wu Google (United States)
Luciano Lavagno
Luciano Lavagno Polytechnic University of Turin

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