Mahdi Abbaszadeh is an experienced R&D Engineer at QuickLogic Corporation, focusing on enhancing eFPGA architectures to improve performance, power, and area (PPA) since March 2024. Previously, Mahdi served as a Sr. Staff Engineer at Rapid Silicon from March 2023 to February 2024 and held roles as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the University of Toronto from August 2020 to March 2023. In addition, Mahdi was a Teaching Assistant at Shahid Beheshti University from June 2016 to January 2020, and completed a Hardware Engineering Internship at Parsa Sharif, where the work involved cryptographic algorithms. Earlier experience includes a position as a Back-end Developer with the SBU Web Development Team from June 2016 to June 2017. Mahdi holds a Master of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University.