Author Archives: Mehdi

Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Mohammad Irfan for successfully completing his Ph.D. thesis oral examination. He is the 14th happy Ph.D. graduate from our CALAS team. Dr. Irfan will further develop his professional career in Hong Kong after graduation.

To recognize the good performance of Teaching Assistants, Department will present Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards this year to Teaching Assistants who performed teaching duties in tutorial and/or laboratory sessions by considering the TLQ results, student comments, and the assessments by … Continue reading →

We are pleased to share that our First-year Ph.D. members all passed their qualifying examinations- Congrats Gavin, Gary, Candice, Ajita, Ashraf.

Irfan won second prize in this year’s EE Research Student Symposium. Big congratulations to him! He presented “Novel Design, Architecture, and Optimization on Content Addressable Memory (CAM).”

Good news! This year out of 200 FYP projects, 33 of them are selected for the final round competition, 4 of them are from CALAS. Faye entered the top 10 in the final round competition and won CityU-EE Best FYP … Continue reading →

“Reconfigurable Computing and Hardware Acceleration in Health Informatics”- a book chapter by Dr. Ray and Mehdi is published in a book by Springer International Publishing, Switzerland. The title of the book is “Signal Processing Techniques for Computational Health Informatics”. This book … Continue reading →

We welcome to the team Gavin and Gary, new CALAS PhD Candidates. Guangyan LI (Gavin) received the B.Eng degree in 2020 from the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong with a first class honor. He was a research-based FYP student … Continue reading →

Dr. Ray has given a nice talk on this Wednesday (June 24, 2020) in Samsung AI Center, Cambridge to around 35 International researchers. The topic was “From IoT to Edge-based AIoT: Challenges and Solutions”. The talk was very well received. … Continue reading →

Irfan, Dr. Zahid, Sanka’s work on TCAM has been accepted by IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, after a major round of revision, titled: Accelerated Updating Mechanisms for FPGA-based Ternary Content-addressable Memory. More about ESL: https://ieee-ceda.org/publication/ieee-embedded-systems-letters-esl

Peter Ng, VP of ASM Pacific Technology, and his colleagues came to CityU and discuss with CALAS research team for potential new projects. Click here for more details on  ASM Pacific Technology