Junzhe Liang
MASc Student

I am Junzhe Liang, a Master student in Computer Engineering at the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University under the supervision of Dr. Zhenman Fang. I am a part of the HiAccel group (High-performance, High energy-efficient, High-level software-defined, Hierarchical hardware Acceleration architectures, and systems). My research interest lies in FPGA-based hardware accelerator design and heterogeneous computing.

I received my Bachelor's degree in Mechatronic Engineering from The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia. Under the guidance of Dr. Colin Burvill , my major team-based design project was associated with the Warman Design & Build Competition 2020, completing 3D modelling, assembly design and Arduino control of the device. We completed a theoretical design of an intelligent vehicle and realised the design physically into an automatic avoid-obstacle device without the support of school facilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic (as shown in the video). My team members and I standed out uniquely and unequivocally different than other 200 competitors and earned the highest mark in the assignment.

While at Unimelb, I am one of members in Robogals which aimed to inspire children to have fun with robots and control robot vehicles using simple visual programming blocks. Aside from engineering, I am passionate about ethnomusicology such as indigeneous Australian music and Afro-Brazilican capoeira.