Computer Science PhD Candidate

Mohammad Sonji

Mohammad Sonji

I am currently a PhD student in the Insight Lab at the University of Virginia, advised by Professor Adwait Jog. I hold a Master of Science in Computer Science from the American University of Beirut, advised by Professor Izzat El Hajj.

Research interests: GPU systems (utilization, multi-tenancy, interconnect/memory behavior), high-performance computing, and performance analysis/modeling.

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
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News

April 2026
AWTY got accepted at ICPE 2026!
April 2026
HIBISCUS got accepted at ISPASS 2026!
Spring 2026
Passed my Qualifying Exam Proposal.
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Publications

Hibiscus: End-to-end Architectural Simulation Framework for Hybrid SFQ/CMOS-Memory Compute Systems
Ryan Marsala, Yerzhan Mustafa, Prabhath Tangella, Mohammad Sonji, George Michelogiannakis, Selcuk Kose, Adwait Jog, Mehmet Belviranli · IEEE ISPASS 2026
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Experience

Research Assistant

American University of Beirut & Hewlett Packard Labs
Jun 2022 – Jul 2024

Worked on performance variability and performance modeling, and systems for heterogeneous/serverless computing.

  • Heterogeneous serverless graph computing
  • Applications' performance variability and modeling
  • Execution/power/performance prediction

Teaching Assistant

University of Virginia
2025 – Present
American University of Beirut
  • Fall 2023–2024: CMPS221 Computer Organization & Design
  • Spring 2022–2023: CMPS202 Intermediate Programming with Data Structures
  • Fall 2022–2023: CMPS224/CMPS396AA GPU Computing (CUDA)
  • Spring 2021–2022: CMPS200 Intro to Programming; CMPS212 Data Structures