{"id":22074,"date":"2019-07-18T11:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=22074"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T19:45:46","slug":"reza-rawassizadeh","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/profile\/reza-rawassizadeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Reza Rawassizadeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reza Rawassizadeh holds a Ph.D. of Computer Science from University of Vienna, a Master\u2019s degree from the Vienna University of Technology, and a Bachelor\u2019s degree from Tehran Azad University (Central Branch).<\/p>\n<p>His research interest focuses on ubiquitous technologies including wearables, mobile devices and robots. He has made notable contributions in designing resource efficient, on-device machine learning algorithms to operate on small battery-powered devices such as smartwatches or fitness trackers, without any network requirement.<\/p>\n<p>For several AI-based companies, he serves as the senior or chief scientific advisor.<\/p>\n<p>Reza\u2019s personal homepage is available under this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/rezar\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/rezar<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Courses<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/cs622\">MET CS 622 Advanced Programming Techniques<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/cs688\">MET CS 688 Web Mining and Graph Analytics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs766\/\">MET CS 766 Deep Reinforcement Learning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/cs767\">MET CS 767 Advanced Machine Learning and Neural Networks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs788\/\">MET CS 788 Generative AI<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Research Interests<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On-device machine learning and artificial intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Ubiquitous, mobile and wearable computing<\/li>\n<li>Digital health<\/li>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">AI Democratization<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Scholarly Works<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol><\/ol>\n<ol class=\"n8H08c BKnRcf \">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" class=\"zfr3Q TYR86d lsiHE \"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Wen, Q., Zeng, X., Zihan, Z., Shuaijin, L., Hosseinzadeh, M., &amp; Rawassizadeh, R. (2025). GradES: Significantly Faster Training in Transformers with Gradient-Based Early Stopping. <\/span><span><a data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2509.01842\" data-linkindex=\"1\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2509.01842\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2509.01842<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" class=\"zfr3Q TYR86d lsiHE \"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Wang, H, Hosseinzadeh, M., &amp; Rawassizadeh, R. (2025). TinyMusician: On-Device Music Generation with Knowledge Distillation and Mixed Precision Quantization. <\/span><span><a data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2509.00914\" data-linkindex=\"2\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2509.00914\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2509.00914<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" class=\"zfr3Q TYR86d lsiHE \"><span class=\"C9DxTc \"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Ejimuda, C. U., Longhitano, G., &amp; Rawassizadeh, R. (2025). Analyzing the Resource Utilization of Lambda Functions on Mobile Devices: Case Studies on Kotlin and Swift. <\/span><span>IEEE Pervasive Computing<\/span><span> 24.2 (2025): 48-51<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" class=\"zfr3Q TYR86d lsiHE \"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Wen, Q., Kochhar, P., Zeyada, S., Javaheri, T., &amp; Rawassizadeh, R. (2025). From Clicks to Conversations: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Conversational Agents in Statistical Analysis. <\/span><span>International Journal of Human\u2013Computer Interaction<\/span><span>, 1\u201318. <a data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10447318.2025.2561760\" data-linkindex=\"3\" title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10447318.2025.2561760\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10447318.2025.2561760<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" class=\"zfr3Q TYR86d lsiHE \"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Lu, H., Alemi, M. and Rawassizadeh, R. (2024) The Impact of Quantization and Pruning on Deep Reinforcement Learning Models.<\/span><a data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2407.04803\" data-linkindex=\"4\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2407.04803\"><span> <\/span><\/a><span><a data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2407.04803\" data-linkindex=\"5\" title=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2407.04803\">https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2407.04803<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \"><\/span><em><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Visit\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"XqQF9c\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=MlmVx_UAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"C9DxTc aw5Odc \">Google Scholar<\/span><\/a><span class=\"C9DxTc \"> for a full list of scholarly works.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Recent Press Releases and Media Appearances<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Democratizing Generative AI models &#8211; 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dli\/projects\/democratizing-generative-ai-models\/?utm_campaign=dli_email_monthly&amp;utm_source=headline_1&amp;utm_medium=shipley_act_grants\">https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dli\/projects\/democratizing-generative-ai-models\/?utm_campaign=dli_email_monthly&amp;utm_source=headline_1&amp;utm_medium=shipley_act_grants <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Computer Science Research Team Wins Best Search UX Award for Fitness Tracker Chatbot &#8211; 2023<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/computer-science-research-team-wins-best-search-ux-award-for-fitness-tracker-chatbot\"> https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/computer-science-research-team-wins-best-search-ux-award-for-fitness-tracker-chatbot <\/a><\/li>\n<li>ODSearch enables users to communicate with their fitness tracker in plain natural language &#8211; 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.growkudos.com\/publications\/10.1145%25252F3569488\/reader\">https:\/\/www.growkudos.com\/publications\/10.1145%25252F3569488\/reader<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2828,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30626,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/22074\/revisions\/30626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}