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.
Today we have two technical staff from Xilinx visiting the joint laboratory in EE department and giving CALAS members an informative talk about current development and diverse application of Xilinx FPGA. CALAS students also acquire an overview of the next generation FPGA and get more familiar with the chip they use. Thanks for the opportunity.
Muhammad Irfan received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the 13th Ph.D. Student Workshop 2019, held in Suzhou, China. 
Two CALAS Ph.D. students Muhammad Irfan and Vic will go to America to present their research work in the 30th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP). Best wishes to them.
Congrats to Jack. His paper to 30th British Machine Vision Conference got accepted. 255 papers are selected from 1000+ submission. Link https://bmvc2019.org/
Welcome Hilda and Olivia from Wuhan University, they will study in CALAS for the coming two months
