CALAS

Congrats Man Kit, nice paper to Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Infrastructures for Distributed Ledgers (SERIAL 2020), got accepted – FPGA-based Consensus in Permissioned Blockchains.
It is a joint work with our partner in Spain.

Warm Welcome to CALAS, Candice. Our first female Ph.D. Student.
All the members warmly welcome you to the team.

Dr. David Hu and Guangyan LI (Gavin) have given nice talks this Wednesday(Sept 9, 2020) in CALAS Crypto Seminar Series to around 20 international researchers. The topic of Dr. David Hu’s talk was “Coding Theory used in NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization (Part-I)”.  And the topic of Gavin’s talk was “Sparse-Dense Polynomial Multiplication in Lightweight PQC”. The talks are informative and got many interesting questions from the audience.

We welcome to team Ajita, a new CALAS PhD Candidate. Miss. Ajita Misra received the B.Tech degree in 2018 from SRM University, India in the department of ECE. Later she received her M.Tech. degree in ICT with specialization in VLSI in 2020 from DAIICT, India. She will start the Ph.D. study in CityU EE department in 2020/21.

Irfan has got invited to give a talk online for the IEEE Malaysia Student Branch, about academic research. Please find the event details from the attached poster.

Irfan and Mehdi have given two nice talks today (Sept 4, 2020) in CityU EE Research Seminar Series to around 70 Ph.D. students from the EE department, CityU. Mehdi’s sharing was about “Reconfigurable Architectures for Electrophysiological Signal Processing”. Irfan’s sharing was about “Novel Design, Architecture, and Optimization of Content-addressable Memory (CAM)”. The talks introduced their impressive research work and got many interesting questions from the audience.

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 under the supervision of Dr. Ray. His research interest includes hardware and information security and lightweight PQC cryptography. Gaoyu MAO (Gary) received his B.Engg. from Shandong University in 2020. His research interests include efficient system design with FPGA and RISC V processor design.

Congratulations to Mehdi and Irfan, for receiving the Research Tuition Scholarship for the year 2020/21, which entitles their Tuition Fee to be waived for the next one year.

Prof. Kris Gaj has given a nice talk this Wednesday(Aug 19, 2020) in CALAS Crypto Seminar Series. The topic was “Implementation and Benchmarking of Round 2 Candidates in the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process Using FPGAs”. Special thanks to Dr. David Hu for the organization and preparation for the seminar series. The slides are agreed to share, and you can find the slides HERE.

Dr. Ray has got an Outstanding Teaching Award from the College of
Engineering for his excellent teaching and satisfying the student’s
needs in the year 2019-20.
Many Congratulations to him.