Author Archives: Gavin Li

Good news! Prof. Ray has been invited to serve as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member at the CODES+ISSS 2025, the premier conference on system-level design, hardware/software co-design, and embedded systems. As part of Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK), this conference … Continue reading →

We’re thrilled to welcome Eden (Xudong Zhao) to CALAS as a new PhD Candidate. With expertise in laser wind lidar systems, AI technologies, and AIoT, plus an MSc from CityUHK, Eden brings a strong background in engineering and innovation. Best … Continue reading →

Big congratulations to Harry and Lucas for their paper, “InstantViT: Real-Time Attention Accelerator for Dense Predictions of Vision Transformer (ViT)”, being accepted as a poster at the prestigious 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in London, UK. … Continue reading →

Our CALAS New Year gathering was successfully held on January 22nd at the elegant Hilltop in The Valley, Hong Kong Jockey Club. Starting at 6 PM, this annual tradition brought our members together for an evening of celebration, networking, and … Continue reading →

We are thrilled to see Gavin (Guangyan Li), Lucas (Zewen Ye), Donald (Donglong Chen), Winston (Wangchen Dai) and Gary (Gaoyu Mao)’s outstanding work, titled “ProgramGalois: A Programmable Generator of Radix-4 Discrete Galois Transformation Architecture for Lattice-Based Cryptography”, featured as part … Continue reading →

We are proud to celebrate the success of Donald’s team at UIC and Winston, distinguished graduates of CALAS. Their team has been honored with the prestigious GDCA Outstanding Paper Award (First Prize)  for their remarkable project: “Yet Another Improvement of … Continue reading →

On November 26, CALAS had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Erica Han and her student from Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School. During her visit, we introduced our ongoing research and recent achievements, including our latest projects and innovative contributions. Prof. … Continue reading →

Yesterday, the CALAS team had the privilege of attending a lecture delivered by Prof. Wayne Luk, a leading expert in meta-programming and hardware acceleration. Prof. Luk shared his recent advancements in leveraging different hardware, including FPGAs, to optimize computational efficiency … Continue reading →

  Our CALAS hiking activity along the Eagle’s Nest Nature Trail was held successfully! Starting at 10 AM, the hike lasted for 1.5 hours, providing a great opportunity for team bonding and knowledge exchange. A special thanks to Clarice, the … Continue reading →

Many Congratulations to Gavin and Lucas with other members for their paper being published on ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) recently. Good job! The title of the paper is “ProgramGalois: A Programmable Generator of Radix-4 Discrete Galois Transformation Architecture … Continue reading →