Shaila Niazi

Shaila Niazi received her B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2017. After graduation, she worked as a “Design Engineer” for one year in a VLSI based company named “Neural Semiconductor Ltd” in Dhaka, Bangladesh where she gained experience using different Cadence tools for digital chip design. She joined the OPUS Lab at UC Santa Barbara as a Ph.D. student in Winter 2022. Her research interests include FPGA-based hardware accelerators, probabilistic computing, nano-electronic devices and CMOS VLSI circuits. Apart from research, she likes traveling, reading story books, and playing badminton.