[1] In the early 1990s, Pedram pioneered an approach to designing VLSI circuits that considered physical effects during logic synthesis.

[2] Pedram's early work on this subject became a significant prior art reference in a litigation between Synopsys Inc. and Magma Design Automation.

[10] He served as the inaugural editor-in-chief (EiC) of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS).

[15] Pedram has been on the advisory board of several companies, including Atrenta Inc.,[16] Envis Corp,[17] and Magma Design Automation.

[29] He was one of ten principal investigators from academia in the United States who were selected by DARPA to fund for the Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) program.