Journal Articles
Zohaib Tariq, Haroon Waris, Rehan Ahmed, Yuqin Dou, Weiqiang Liu and Muhammad Imran, “Low-Cost Yet Effective Trojan Mitigation Techniques for Approximate Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2025 (Accepted)
Thai Hoang Nguyen, Muhammad Imran, Jaehyuk Choi and Joon-Sung Yang, “HYDRA: A Hybrid Resistance Drift Resilient Architecture for Phase Change Memory-Based Neural Network Accelerators,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2024 [Xplore]
Thai Hoang Nguyen, Muhammad Imran, Jaehyuk Choi and Joon-Sung Yang, “CRAFT: Criticality-Aware Fault-Tolerance Enhancement Techniques for Emerging Memories-Based Deep Neural Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2023 [pdf][Xplore]
Muhammad Imran, Taehyun Kwon, Nur A. Touba and Joon-Sung Yang, “CEnT: An Efficient Architecture to Eliminate Intra-array Write Disturbance in PCM,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2022 [pdf] [Xplore]
Muhammad Imran, Taehyun Kwon and Joon-Sung Yang, “ADAPT: A Write Disturbance Aware Programming Technique for Scaled Phase Change Memory,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2022 [pdf] [Xplore]
Taehyun Kwon, Muhammad Imran and Joon-Sung Yang, “Reliability Enhanced Heterogeneous Phase Change Memory Architecture for Performance and Energy Efficiency,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021 [pdf] [Xplore]
Taehyun Kwon, Muhammad Imran and Joon-Sung Yang, “Cost-effective Reliable MLC PCM Architecture Using Virtual Data Based Error Correction,” IEEE Access, 2020 [pdf] [Xplore]
Taehyun Kwon, Muhammad Imran, David Z. Pan and Joon-Sung Yang, “Virtual Tile Based Flip-flop Alignment Methodology for Clock Network Power Optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 2020 [pdf] [Xplore]
Muhammad Imran, Hyunseung Han, Jooho Kim, Taehyun Kwon, Jaeyong Chung and Joon-Sung Yang, “Virtualization Based Efficient TSV Repair for 3-D Integrated Circuits,” IEEE Access, 2019 [pdf] [Xplore]
Taehyun Kwon, Muhammad Imran and Joon-Sung Yang, “Pattern-Aware Encoding for MLC PCM Storage Density, Energy Efficiency and Performance Enhancement,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2019 [pdf][Xplore]
Conference Papers
Syed Jawad Shah, Majeed Ahmed, Haroon Waris, Nasir Mohyuddin, Mahboob Ur Rehman and Muhammad Imran, “AFCML: Accelerating the Functional Coverage through Machine Learning within a UVM Framework,” Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCON), 2025 (Accepted)
Thai Hoang Nguyen, Muhammad Imran and Joon-Sung Yang, “DynaPAT: A Dynamic Pattern-Aware Encoding Technique for Robust MLC PCM-Based Deep Neural Networks,” IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2022 [pdf][ACM]
Kamran, Muhammad Hammad Nasir, Muhammad Imran and Joon-Sung Yang, “Study on E-Voting Systems: A Blockchain Based Approach,” IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia), 2021 [pdf][Xplore]
Thai Hoang Nguyen, Muhammad Imran, Jaehyuk Choi and Joon-Sung Yang, “Low-Cost and Effective Fault-Tolerance Enhancement Techniques for Emerging Memories-Based Deep Neural Networks,” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2021 [pdf][Xplore]
Muhammad Imran, Taehyun Kwon and Joon-Sung Yang, “Effective Write Disturbance Mitigation Encoding Scheme for High-density PCM,” IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, 2020 [pdf] [slides][Xplore]
Muhammad Imran, Taehyun Kwon, Jung Min You and Joon-Sung Yang, “Flipcy: Efficient Pattern Redistribution for Enhancing MLC PCM Reliability and Storage Density,” IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2019 [pdf] [slides] [Xplore]
Muhammad Imran, Taehyun Kwon and Joon-Sung Yang, “Enrely: A reliable MLC PCM Architecture based on Data Encoding,” International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC), 2019 [pdf] [slides] [Xplore]
Muhammad Imran, Taehyun Kwon, Jung Min You and Joon-Sung Yang, “Flipcy: Efficient Pattern Redistribution for Enhancing MLC PCM Reliability and Storage Density,” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), Work-In-Progress Session, 2019 [poster]
Taehyun Kwon, Muhammad Imran, Jung Min You and Joon-Sung Yang, “Heterogeneous PCM Array Architecture for Reliability, Performance and Lifetime Enhancement,” IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference, 2018 [pdf] [slides] [Xplore]
Muhammad Imran and Joon-Sung Yang, “Low overhead TSV repair for TSV-induced noise and stress reduction,” Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), 2018
Muhammad Imran and Irfan Khaliq, “An optimized hardware implementation of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-192),” International Conference on Engineering & Emerging Technologies (ICEET), 2015 [pdf]