CALAS

A patent from CALAS member Irfan and Dr. Zahid has been filed in the USA Patent office. The title is: “Electronic memory device and a method of manipulating the memory device”.

Our paper entitled “RPE-TCAM: Reconfigurable Power-efficient Ternary Content-Addressable Memory on FPGAs” got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems. Congratulations to Irfan, Dr. Zahid, Mehdi and Dr. Ray.

Dr. Ray has been awarded the CENG Outstanding Teaching Award 2019-20 by the College of Engineering. From the EE department, there are only two awardees including him. He is famous among EE students for his in-depth advice on final year projects and national/international competitions. Congratulations to him and the whole team.

Congratulations to Dr. David Hu about his paper “Compact Code-based Signature for Reconfigurable Devices with Side-Channel Resilience” that has been accepted in IEEE TCAS I for publication.

Our paper entitled “Binary Convolutional Neural Network Acceleration Framework for Rapid System Prototyping” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Systems Architecture.

Our paper entitled “Dynamic Sparse Training: Find Efficient Sparse Network From Scratch With Trainable Masked Layers” has been accepted in the 8th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

The 31st IEEE International Conference on *Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors* (ASAP 2020) will take place at The University of Manchester, UK, on July 6–8, 2020.   The conference will be held in cooperation with IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, and includes as organizers:General Chair- Dirk Koch, The University of Manchester, UKProgram Co-Chairs- Frank Hannig, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany- Javier Navaridas, The University of Manchester, UK. Dr. Ray will serve as one of the Program Committee (PC) member. For more information, please enter  https://asap2020.cs.manchester.ac.uk

We welcome Ms. Yuewantong Song (Sivy) to the CALAS research group. She received her B.Sc in Computer Science in software engineering of Zhengzhou University in 2019. She is currently a master student in Electronic Information Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Dr. Ray C.C. CHEUNG. Her research interests include routing switching technology, network coding and FPGA system designs and developments.

Last week Dr. Ray Cheung visited South China University of Technology (Guangzhou) with Professor Hong Yan. Guangdong is setting up 10 national labs now including Pengchen. Each lab has funding in the scales of $2B RMB. Dr. Ray also visited CUHK (SZ) and Shenzhen Big Data Institute. This institute has recently received a funding of $750M RMB.