HiAccel Founder and Director

	Prof. Zhenman Fang

Current HiAccel Members

	Alec Lu, PhD student, since Sept 2018   Transferred from MASc to PhD since Jan 2020   Co-supervised with Prof. Lesley Shannon (Primary supervisor: Prof. Fang)   Bachelor, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2018   Papers: [C31, FCCM 2023][C30, DATE 2023][C29, HPCA 2023][C28, ECCV 2022][C25, FPL 2022][C23, FPGA 2022]                 [C20, FPGA 2021][C19, FPT 2020][C14, FCCM 2019][J15, TRETS 2023][J13, TRETS 2023][J9, TRETS 2022]                 [J7, TRETS 2022][A13, DAC 2022 LBR][A12, DAC 2022 LBR][A11, DAC 2022 WIP]   Award: SFU Graduate Travel and Research Award, Summer 2023   Intern: Huawei Big Data Team, Canada, 12/2022 - present; Meta, Redmond, WA, USA, 6/2022 - 10/2022
	Xingyu Tian, PhD student, since Sept 2019   Transferred from MASc to PhD since May 2021   Bachelor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2019   Papers: [C32, FCCM 2023][J14, TRETS 2023][J13, TRETS 2023]
	Ahmad Sedigh Baroughi, PhD student, since Sept 2023   MASc, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, 2018
	Moazin Khatti, MASc student, since Sept 2021   Bachelor, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Pakistan, 2020   Papers: [C32, FCCM 2023][J14, TRETS 2023]   Intern: d-Matrix, Canada, 5/2023 - present
	Junzhe Liang, MASc student, since Sept 2021   Bachelor, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2021
	Kenny Liu, Accelerated MASc student, since May 2021   MASc program since May 2022   Award: NSERC USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Awards), 2021   Bachelor/MASc combined program, Simon Fraser University, Canada   Papers: [C29, HPCA 2023][J15, TRETS 2023]
	Dilshan Sampath, MASc student, since Sept 2022   Bachelor, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2018   Industry experience: Synopsys Inc., Sri Lanka, 2018-2022
	Abdul Wadood, MASc student, since Sept 2022   Bachelor, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Pakistan, 2019   Intern: Huawei Big Data Team, Canada, 12/2022 - present   Other industry experience: Alba Engineering Company and Turing, Pakistan, 2019-2022
	Manoj BR, MASc student, since Sept 2022   Award: Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship, 2022   Bachelor, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India, 2022
	William Xue, Accelerated MASc student, since Sept 2022   MASc program since Jan 2023   Award: NSERC USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Awards), 2022; BC Graduate Scholarship, 2023   Bachelor/MASc combined program, Simon Fraser University, Canada
	Philip Stachura, Accelerated MASc student, since Sept 2023   Bachelor/MASc combined program, Simon Fraser University, Canada
	Akhil Raj Barnawal, MASc student, since Sept 2023   Bachelor, BITS Pilani, India, 2020   Industry experience: Micron and Imagination Technologies, India, 2020-2023
	Weihua Liu, MEng student, since Sept 2019   Bachelor, Marquette University, USA, 2017   Research Assistant, Marquette University, USA, 2019   Papers: [C20, FPGA 2021]
	Kartik Samtani, MEng student, since Jan 2021   Award: SFU Graduate Dean's Entrance Scholarship (GDES)   Bachelor, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India, 2017   Papers: [J15, TRETS 2023]   Intern: Huawei Big Data Team, Canada, 12/2022 - 4/2023   Other industry experience: Samsung and Texas Instruments, Bangalore, India, 2017-2021

Undergraduate Research Interns

• Guanyu Li, SFU VPR USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Awards), since May 2023
• Xinyu Luo, Mitacs Globalink Research Internship, Southeast University, China, since Jul 2023
• Jahanvi Narendra Agrawal, Mitacs Globalink Research Internship, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India, since Jul 2023

Past HiAccel Members

	Sathish Panchapakesan, MASc student, 9/2019 - 12/2021   Bachelor, Anna University, India, 2017   Project Associate, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, 2019   Papers: [J8, TRETS 2022][C21, FPL 2021][A7, FCCM 2020 poster]   Intern: Huawei Canada Research Engineer Intern, 7/2021 - 1/2022   First position: Machine Learning System Software Engineer, Qualcomm, Toronto, ON, Canada

• Nazanin Farahpour, UCLA PhD student, 10/2018 – 3/2020
  Co-supervised with Prof. Glenn Reinman at UCLA (Primary supervisor: Prof. Reinman)
  Thesis: Modeling and Optimization of Accelerator-Rich Architectures for Near Data Processing
  Papers: [C19, FPT 2020][C18, IISWC 2020][SC4, LCTES 2020 WiP]
  First position: Pinterest, Bay Area, CA, USA
• Michael Lo, UCLA MASc student, 10/2019 – 3/2020
  Co-supervised with Prof. Jason Cong and Prof. Mau-Chung Frank Chang at UCLA (Primary supervisor: Prof. Chang)
  Papers: [C16, FCCM 2020]
  First position: PhD student at UCLA
• William Xue, NSERC USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Awards), SFU, Fall 2022
• Yibin Wang, Mitacs Globalink Research Internship, Xidian University, China, 6/2022-9/2022
• Chin ho Wan, SFU ENSC undergraduate COOP, Fall 2021
• Kenny Liu, NSERC USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Awards), SFU, Summer 2021
• Zhifan Ye, Mitacs Globalink Research Internship, University of Science and Technology of China, 7/2021 - 12/2021
• Yuxing Zhao, Mitacs Globalink Research Internship, Southwest Jiaotong University, China, 7/2021 - 10/2021
• Richard Song, SFU ENSC undergraduate COOP, Summer 2021
• Ziniu Chen, SFU ENSC undergraduate COOP, Summer 2020
• Francis Chui, SFU ENSC undergraduate COOP, Fall 2020

Lab Facility

We have built a modern 10-node cluster that has 16 Xilinx Alveo FPGA boards, 4 Samsung/Xilinx SmartSSD FPGA boards, and 3 Nvidia V100 GPU boards.

Sponsors

We thank the generous funding from all sponsors (no specific order)!