Ashur Rafiev

Research Software Engineer

ashur.rafiev@newcastle.ac.uk

I received my PhD in 2011 in the School of Engineering, Newcastle University. For two years I worked as a post-doc in Culture Lab (now Open Lab). Back then, my work mainly focused on mobile app development for Android but also included the web. In 2013 I moved to the Security and Software Reliability research group where I was investigating the trade-offs between performance, reliability, and power consumption in many-core hardware platforms. For the past three years, I worked as a Research Associate in the School of Engineering with a research interest in many-core systems and applications for distributed computing.

Now I am back in Open Lab working as a research software engineer on the IDEA-FAST and Centre for Digital Citizen projects. I am developing the data transfer pipeline for the IDEA-FAST collaborators, working on the frontend and backend software for the Story Inspiration Station installation for the Great North Museum: Hancock, and making other apps and projects.

Project Title

IDEA-FAST: Identifying digital endpoints for fatigue and sleep for people living with chronic conditions

2023

Event-based high throughput computing: A series of case studies on a massively parallel softcore machine

Vousden M Morris J McLachlan Bragg G Beaumont J Rafiev A Luk W Thomas D Brown A

2023 – IET Computers and Digital Techniques

10.1049/cdt2.12051

REDRESS: Generating Compressed Models for Edge Inference Using Tsetlin Machines

Maheshwari S Rahman T Shafik R Yakovlev A Rafiev A Jiao L Granmo O

2023 – IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3268415

2022

Synchronization in graph analysis algorithms on the Partially Ordered Event-Triggered Systems many-core architecture

Rafiev A Yakovlev A Tarawneh G Naylor MN Moore SW Thomas DB Bragg GM Vousden ML Brown AD

2022 – IET Computers & Digital Techniques

10.1049/cdt2.12041

Practical Distributed Implementation of Very Large Scale Petri Net Simulations

Rafiev A Morris J Xia F Yakovlev A Naylor M Moore S Thomas D Bragg G Vousden M Brown A

2022 – Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XVI

10.1007/978-3-662-65303-6_6

Visualization of Machine Learning Dynamics in Tsetlin Machines

Rafiev A Morris J Xia F Shafik R Yakovlev A Granmo O-C Brown AD

2022 – International Symposium on the Tsetlin Machine (ISTM)

10.1109/ISTM54910.2022.00020

An Alternate Feedback Mechanism for Tsetlin Machines on Parallel Architectures

Morris J Rafiev A Xia F Shafik R Yakovlev A Brown A

2022 – International Symposium on the Tsetlin Machine

2020

Amdahl’s law in the context of heterogeneous many-core systems – a survey

Al-Hayanni MAN Xia F Rafiev R Romanovsky A Shafik R Yakovlev A

2020 – IET Computers & Digital Techniques

10.1049/iet-cdt.2018.5220

PARMA: Parallelization-Aware Run-time Management for Energy-Efficient Many-Core Systems

Al-hayanni MAN Rafiev A Xia F Shafik R Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2020 – IEEE Transactions on Computers

10.1109/TC.2020.2975787

Low-complexity run-time management of concurrent workloads for energy-efficient multi-core systems

Aalsaud A Xia F Rafiev A Shafik R Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2020 – Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications

10.3390/jlpea10030025

2018

Error-Based Metric for Cross-Layer Cut Determination

Rafiev A Xia F Iliasov A Gensh R Aalsaud A Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2018 – Languages, Design Methods, and Tools for Electronic System Design: Selected Contributions from FDL 2016

10.1007/978-3-319-62920-9_4

Speedup and Power Scaling Models for Heterogeneous Many-Core Systems

Rafiev A Al-Hayanni MAN Xia F Shafik R Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2018 – IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems

10.1109/TMSCS.2018.2791531

Model-free Runtime Management for Concurrent Workloads on Many-Core Heterogeneous Systems

Aalsaud A Rafiev A Xia F Shafik R Yakovlev A

2018 – 28th International Symposium on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS 2018)

10.1109/PATMOS.2018.8464142

2017

Architecting Holistic Fault Tolerance

Gensh R Rafiev A Romanovsky A Garcia A Xia F Yakovlev A

2017 – 18th IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE 2017)

10.1109/HASE.2017.13

Voltage, Throughput, Power, Reliability and Multicore Scaling

Xia F Rafiev A Aalsaud A Al-Hayanni M Davis J Levine J Mokhov A Romanovsky A Shafik R Yakovlev A Yang S

2017 – IEEE Computer Magazine

10.1109/MC.2017.3001246

Resource-Driven Modelling for Managing Model Fidelity

Rafiev A Mokhov A Xia F Iliasov A Gensh R Aalsaud A Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2017 – Model-Implementation Fidelity in Cyber Physical System Design

10.1007/978-3-319-47307-9

Selective abstraction and stochastic methods for scalable power modelling of heterogeneous systems

Rafiev A Xia F Iliasov A Gensh R Aalsaud A Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2017 – Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL)

10.1109/FDL.2016.7880376

Speedup and Parallelization Models for Energy-Efficient Many-Core Systems Using Performance Counters

Al-Hayanni M Shafik R Rafiev A Xia F Yakovlev A

2017 – 2017 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation

10.1109/HPCS.2017.68

Modelling for systems with holistic fault tolerance

Gensh R Rafiev A Xia F Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2017 – 9th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems (SERENE 2017)

10.1007/978-3-319-65948-0_11

Selective Abstraction for Estimating Extra-Functional Properties in Networks-on-Chips using ArchOn Framework

Rafiev A Xia F Iliasov A Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2017 – 17th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD)

10.1109/ACSD.2017.13

2016

Challenges for Designing new Technology for Health and Wellbeing in a Complex Mental Healthcare Context

Thieme A McCarthy J Johnson P Wallace J Lindley S Ladha K Jackson D Nowacka D Rafiev A Ladha C Nappey T Kipling M Wright P Meyer TD Olivier P

2016 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016

10.1145/2858036.2858182

Extended Power and Energy Normalized Performance Models for Many-Core Systems

Al-Hayanni M Rafiev A Shafik RA Xia F Yakovlev A

2016 – ASYNC Technical Report Series NCL-EEE-MICRO-TR-2016-198

Power and Energy Normalized Speedup Models for Heterogeneous Many Core Computing

Al-Hayanni M Rafiev A Shafik RA Xia F

2016 – International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD)

10.1109/ACSD.2016.16

Power-Aware Performance Adaptation of Concurrent Applications in Heterogeneous Many-Core Systems

Aalsaud A Shafik R Rafiev A Xia F Yang S Yakovlev A

2016 – Proceedings of the 2016 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 16)

10.1145/2934583.2934612

Architecting Holistic Fault Tolerance

Gensh R Rafiev a Romanovsky A Garcia A Xia F Yakovlev A

2016 – School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

2015

Can a kitchen teach languages? Linking theory and practice in the design of context-aware language learning environments

Preston A Balaam M Seedhouse P Rafiev A Jackson D Olivier P

2015 – Smart Learning Environments

10.1186/s40561-015-0016-9

Power-proportional modelling fidelity

Rafiev A Xia F Iliasov A Gensh R Aalsaud A Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2015 – School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

A formal specification and prototyping language for multi-core system management

Iliasov A Rafiev A Xia F Gensh R Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2015 – School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Studying the Interplay of Concurrency, Performance, Energy and Reliability with ArchOn - An Architecture-Open Resource-Driven Cross-Layer Modelling Framework

Rafiev A Iliasov A Romanovsky A Mokhov A Xia F Yakovlev A

2015 – 14th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD 2014)

10.1109/ACSD.2014.28

Experiments with Odroid-XU3 board

Gensh R Aalsaud A Rafiev A Xia F Iliasov A Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2015 – School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Order Graphs and Cross-Layer Parametric Significance-driven Modelling

Rafiev A Xia F Iliasov A Gensh R Aalsaud A Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2015 – 15th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD'15)

10.1109/ACSD.2015.16

A formal specification and prototyping language for multi-core system management

Iliasov A Rafiev A Xia F Gensh R Romanovsky A Yakovlev A

2015 – 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2015)

10.1109/PDP.2015.107

2014

Studying the Interplay of Concurrency, Performance, Energy and Reliability with ArchOn – an Architecture-open Resource-driven Cross-layer Modelling Framework

Rafiev A Iliasov A Romanovsky A Mokhov A Xia F Yakovlev A

2014 – School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

The European Digital Kitchen Project

Seedhouse P Preston A Olivier P Jackson D Heslop P Balaam M Rafiev A Kipling M

2014 – Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature

Resource-driven Modelling of Complex Digital Systems with Uncertainty

Rafiev A Iliasov A Romanovsky A Mokhov A Xia F Yakovlev A

2014 – School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Kitchen as Classroom: Shifting perspectives in the design and evaluation of new technologies for learning

Preston A Seedhouse P Balaam M Rafiev A Jackson D Olivier P

2014 – British Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2014

ArchOn: Architecture-open Resource-driven Cross-layer Modelling Framework

Rafiev A Iliasov A Romanovsky A Mokhov A Xia F Yakovlev A

2014 – ES4CPS@DATE 2014 - International Workshop on Engineering Simulations for Cyber-Physical Systems

10.1145/2559627.2559632

2012

Mixed Radix Reed-Muller Expansions

Rafiev A Mokhov A Burns FP Murphy JP Koelmans A Yakovlev A

2012 – IEEE Transactions on Computers

10.1109/TC.2011.124