CALAS

We welcome Ms. Jierui LIU (Jerry) to the CALAS research group. She has joined our team as an Undergraduate FYP student. Ms. Jerry is an undergraduate student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. She is the recipient of the CityU Mainland Full Tuition Scholarship. She has a great passion for FPGA technologies and is a member of the CALAS group. Her research interests include System design with FPGA and Natural Language Processing.

We welcome Mr. Fengzhi CAI (Fred) to the CALAS research group. He has joined our team as a Master’s degree candidate. Mr. CAI received his BEng in Electronic Information Science and Technology at the South China Normal University in 2019. He is currently a master student in Electronic Information Engineering at the Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong and working under the supervision of Dr. Ray CHEUNG. His research interests include Network Coding and System Designing with FPGA.

CALAS got successfully funded $1.4M for the ITF project “Secure RISC-V processor for IoT devices”. Sengital Group HK- a market leader in IoT applications, is the industry partner of this project. We are actively looking for Postdoc, PhD candidate, Research Assistant for this project. Please send your CV and research profile to Dr Ray at cccheung@ieee.org.

https://www.itf.gov.hk

We arranged our final bi-weekly research meeting for the year 2019 on 23rd December, and CALAS member Junjie Liu (little Jack) presented his paper on “Dynamic Sparse Training” in this meeting. This paper got accepted at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2020). This research presented a novel network pruning algorithm that can jointly find the optimal network parameters and sparse network structure in a unified optimization process with trainable pruning thresholds.

Paper link: https://openreview.net/forum?id=SJlbGJrtDB

Professor Raymond Yeung, Professor KH Lee and Dr Raymond Chan from the Chinese University of Hong Kong visited CALAS on December 18, 2019. They are part of a world-leading team in network coding, and Professor Raymond Yeung presented a lecture on “Wireless Multi-hop Network for Smart Lampposts.”

Congratulations Dr. David Hoo, CALAS 2018 PhD Graduate.

Dr. David has secured an Assistant professorship position starting from April 2020 at Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU), School of EEE.

Congratulations to CALAS Team. PhD Student Muhammad Irfan’s work on “Reconfigurable TCAM in FPGAs” filed as United States Non-Provisional Patent Application assigning the application number  16/671,669. The inventers are Muhammad Irfan, Dr. Ray Cheung, and Dr. Zahid Ullah.

PhD student Muhammad Irfan presented a research paper in the special track of IoT in IEEE MSN 2019 conference, which was held in PolyU base building in Shenzhen.

https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/msn2019/ai2ot.php

Mehdi, year-2 Ph.D. student, presented his research work on EMG Processor in the postgraduate research seminar on 13 December 2019. This session was chaired by Dr. Ray Cheung and organised by the Department of Electrical Engineering of the City University of Hong Kong.

“Reconfigurable Computing and Hardware Acceleration in Health Informatics”- a book chapter by Dr. Ray C.C. Cheung and Mehdi Hasan Chowdhury got accepted in a book to be published by Springer-Verlag, Germany. The title of the book is “Signal Processing Techniques for Computational Health Informatics”.