CALAS

We welcome CEO Mr. NG and Postdoc from CU Coding Ltd, visiting us today. We are in the process to set up a new exciting project with CU Coding in the coming year. This team is a spin-off company from CUHK, a world-leading expert in “Network Coding”, a key technology enabling 5G.

Our work titled “Accurate and Compact Convolutional Neural Networks with Trained Binarization” was presented in 30th British Machine Vision Conference, one of the major conferences in computer vision, in oral and poster.

https://bmvc2019.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/0588-paper.pdf

Dr. Ray co-authored a paper with Dr. David Hoo, CALAS PhD graduate, has got accepted in the 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology. David is doing his Postdoc research for Nanyang Technological University in  Singapore. The tile of his accepted paper is “Optimized Polynomial Multiplier over Commutative Rings on FPGAs -A  Case Study on BIKE”  The conference is scheduled on Dec 09-13, 2019 in Tianjin, China.

The International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners of reconfigurable computing with an emphasis on practical applications of this promising technology. This year’s Symposium will have a series of international invited speakers who will express their views on the future of reconfigurable technology, and Dr. Ray C.C. Cheung has joined the Technical Program Committee of this event. The symposium will be hosted by the Research Group on Computer Architecture and Networks (ARCO) from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM, Spain) in the historic city of Toledo and scheduled on 1-3 April 2010. Previously, Dr. Ray served as the ARC conference general co-chair in 2012 (Hong Kong).

We welcome Dr. Patrick Hung, CALAS Advisor, in our group meeting. Dr. Hung has continuously given support and advice to our team for years. He received his bachelor from HK, and PhD from Stanford University. He was previously consulting faculty at Stanford University and is currently co-director of the joint laboratory between Stanford Computer Architecture & Arithmetic Group (SCAAG) and Shandong Academy of Information and Communication Technology (SAICT).

One of the papers of Mr. Mehdi Hasan Chowdhury has got accepted in the IEEE EMB Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HIPT ’19) conference. Mehdi is now a Year 2 Ph.D. student working on FPGA based Biosignal Processing. The tile of his accepted paper is “Point-of-Care EMG Processor for the Differential Diagnosis of Neuropathy and Myopathy.” The conference is scheduled in November 20-22, 2019 in Maryland, USA.

Year 3 Ph.D. student Mr. Abdurrashid Ibrahim Sanka’s paper “Blockchain: Panacea for Corrupt Practices in Developing Countries” is accepted in the 2nd International Conference of the IEEE Nigeria Computer Chapter (IEEEnigComputConf’19).  Sanka’s Ph.D. research is focused on blockchain, high-performance network computation, and edge computing. He will present the paper in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria on October 14-17, 2019.

Today we have our CALAS former Postdoc alumni, PhD in Imperial College London, Dr. YU visiting our office in EE department. Now he is a system engineer from Syner wealth technology and gave CALAS members an invaluable information about current development of FPGA in the financial and Fintech industry.

Our Ph.D. students, Jack Xu and Muhammad Irfan, have received Outstanding Academic Performance Award (OAPA). The awardees will be given a cash prize of HK$1,000.

Ph.D. Student Muhammad Irfan has got Research Tuition Scholarship for the year 2019-2010. In this connection, the tuition fee for his Academic Year 2019-2020 will be waived.