News Archive

News and announcements, grouped by year.

2026

FPL 2026 Stamatis Vassiliadis Memorial Best Paper Award for “Cocotb-PYNQ-PR: From Co-Simulation to Deployment, A Unified DFX Framework for PYNQ”. Certificate

2024

FPT 2024 Best Paper Award for “GraphNoC: Graph Neural Networks for Application-Specific FPGA NoC Performance Prediction”. Certificate

One full paper was accepted to FPT 2024.

2023

TRETS Best Paper Award 2023 for the RapidLayout paper. Certificate

I finished my duties as Program Chair of FCCM 2023.

I returned to Canada.

2022

I began a leave of absence from Waterloo to work as Research Director at Xilinx Labs (now AMD Research) Singapore.

2021

One full paper was presented at FCCM 2021.

2020

I received the Waterloo EngSoc (Engineering Society) Teaching Excellence Award for Spring 2020.

I was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Two full papers were accepted to FPL 2020.

One short paper was accepted to FCCM 2020.

2019

Our FPT 2019 paper won the Best Paper Award. Certificate

One full paper was accepted to FPT 2019 and nominated for Best Paper.

Two full papers were accepted to FPL 2019.

One full paper and one short paper were accepted to FCCM 2019.

2018

One full paper was accepted to FPGA 2019.

Two full papers were accepted to FPT 2018.

Our TRETS 2017 submission won the Best Paper Award. Certificate

One full paper was accepted to ISCA 2018.

Two full papers were accepted to FCCM 2018.

2017

I delivered a tutorial on neural networks and embedded SoCs at ESWEEK.

One full paper was accepted to FPT 2017.

I delivered an invited talk on OpenCL programming in Harbin, China.

Two full papers were accepted to FPL 2017.

One short paper was accepted to IWOCL 2017.

Two full papers were accepted to FCCM 2017.

2016

One journal article was accepted for publication in TRETS 2017.

One short paper was accepted to FPGA 2017.

One paper was accepted to DATE 2017.

Our CASES 2016 submission won the Best Paper Award. Certificate

I moved to the University of Waterloo, Canada.

One paper was accepted to FPT 2016.

One paper was accepted to ACMDev 2016.

Delivered a full-day invited lecture on OpenCL for CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs at the PAPAA summer school at the University of Hong Kong.

One full paper was accepted to CASES 2016.

Three full papers and one short paper were accepted to FPL 2016.

One full paper, one short paper, and two posters were accepted to FCCM 2016.

2015

One full paper, one short paper, and one poster were accepted to FPGA 2016.

One journal article was accepted by Supercomputing Frontiers.

One journal article was accepted by TRETS.

The Hoplite NoC paper, co-authored with Jan Gray, won the Michal Servit Best Paper Award at FPL 2015. Certificate, Photo.

I was awarded a Tier 1 grant as PI for machine learning in FPGA CAD (S$100K).

I was awarded a Delta Electronics grant as Co-PI, led by Arindam (S$100K Co-PI).

I was awarded an MIT-SMART grant as Co-PI, led by Arindam (S$60K Co-PI).

Two full papers and one poster were accepted to FPL 2015.

One full paper was accepted to ASAP 2015.

Three full papers and one poster were accepted to FCCM 2015.

One paper was accepted to Supercomputing Frontiers 2015 (organized by A*STAR, Singapore).

Two full papers were accepted to RAW 2015 (co-located with IPDPS 2015).

2014

I was named Technical Program Co-Chair for FPT 2015 in Queenstown, New Zealand.

I was awarded my third Edex (Excellence in Education) grant as PI (S$37K; Co-PI: Anupam Chattopadhyay).

One full paper, one short paper, and one poster were accepted to FPGA 2015.

Two short papers were accepted to FPT 2014.

One full paper was accepted to HiPC 2014 (in collaboration with NTU EOS).

One full paper was accepted to DFM 2014 (co-located with PACT 2014).

I began serving as CTO at Plunify.

One FPL 2014 full paper, nominated for Best Paper, and one poster were accepted.

Three short papers were accepted to FCCM 2014.

The CE4054 Hackathon was announced.

2013

Abid’s TPDS 2013 journal article was accepted.

I was awarded an AcRF Tier 1 grant as PI (S$150K).

I was awarded my second Edex (Excellence in Education) grant as PI (S$40K; Team: Arvind Easwaran and Iris Lee Chai Hong).

One full paper was accepted to FPT 2013.

My PhD student Abid Rafique won the 2013 HiPEAC Paper Award for our FCCM 2013 paper. Certificate

My Edex (Excellence in Education) grant team completed its summer project on automated assessment.

My paper was named one of the 25 most influential FCCM papers from the previous 20 years. Certificate

Siddhartha won a 50th DAC Richard Newton Young Student Fellow grant.

Dulitha joined my lab as a research staff member.

I was awarded a CELT Edex (Excellence in Education) grant as PI/PL (S$25K; Team: Kyle Rupnow, Iris Lee Chai Hong, and Raphael Rubin).

Two full papers were accepted to FCCM 2013.

I organized the 2013 NTU Roadmapping Workshop on the Future of Spatial Architectures. Flyer, Participants

2012

I was awarded an S$50K NTU College of Engineering Seed Fund grant as PI (Co-PI: Kyle Rupnow).

I started as an Assistant Professor at SCE, NTU.