Biography

Farshad Khunjush received the B.Sc. and MSc degrees in Computer Engineering from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, in 1991 and 1995, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, in 2008. He was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Laboratory for Parallel and Intelligent Systems (LAPIS), Victoria, BC, Canada, from 2008 to 2009.


He joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shiraz University in 2009, where he is an associate professor. He served as the head of System/Software Engineering (2010-2014) and acted as the director of Shiraz University ICT Center from 2014 to 2020. Farshad is an entrepreneur and co-founded a startup Cloud computing Company in Iran. His research interests include Multi-Core & Parallel Computer Architectures, Multi-Core & Parallel Programming Paradigms, Cloud Computing, and Big-Data Processing.

Currently, he is a visiting professor in the PARSA lab at EPFL.