Welcome to the HiAccel lab website, which is directed by Prof. Zhenman Fang. We work on customizable computing with specialized hardware acceleration. HiAccel stands for High-performance, High energy-efficient, High-level software-defined, Hierarchical hardware Acceleration architectures and systems. We are building our lab. If you are interested in joining the HiAccel lab, please refer to the recruiting page.
HiAccel Founder and Director
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Prof. Zhenman Fang |
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Current HiAccel Members
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Haisheng Fu, Postdoc, 11/2023 - present Co-supervised with Prof. Jie Liang (Primary supervisor: Prof. Liang) PhD, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, 2023 Visiting PhD, Simon Fraser University, 11/2021 - 10/2023 Papers: [C35, ICASSP 2024][C34, DCC 2024] |
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Xingyu Tian, PhD student, since Sept 2019 Transferred from MASc to PhD since May 2021 Bachelor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2019 Papers: [C33, FPGA 2024][C32, FCCM 2023][J14, TRETS 2023][J13, TRETS 2023] Award: FPGA 2024 Paper [C33] with the Highest Review Score |
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Ahmad Sedigh Baroughi, PhD student, since Sept 2023 MASc, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, 2018 |
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Qilin Hu, Visiting PhD student, since Nov 2023 PhD student, Hunan University, China |
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Kenny Liu, Accelerated MASc student, since May 2021 MASc program since May 2022 Bachelor/MASc combined program, Simon Fraser University, Canada Papers: [C29, HPCA 2023][J15, TRETS 2023] Award: NSERC USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Awards), 2021 |
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Manoj BR, MASc student, since Sept 2022 Bachelor, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India, 2022 Papers: [C33, FPGA 2024] Award: FPGA 2024 Paper [C33] with the Highest Review Score Award: Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship, 2022 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Dilshan Sampath, MASc student, since Sept 2022 Bachelor, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2018 Industry experience: Synopsys Inc., Sri Lanka, 2018-2022 |
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Philip Stachura, Accelerated MASc student, since Sept 2023 Bachelor/MASc combined program, Simon Fraser University, Canada Award: NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships - Master’s (CGS-M), 2024-2025 |
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Akhil Raj Barnawal, MASc student, since Sept 2023 Bachelor, BITS Pilani, India, 2020 Industry experience: Micron and Imagination Technologies, India, 2020-2023 |
Undergraduate Research Interns
- Guanyu Li, SFU, since May 2023
Past HiAccel Members
- 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 - Guanyu Li, SFU VPR USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Awards), Summer 2023
- Xinyu Luo, Mitacs Globalink Research Internship, Southeast University, China, 7/2023-10/2023
- Jahanvi Narendra Agrawal, Mitacs Globalink Research Internship, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India, 7/2023-10/2023
- 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
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Alec Lu, PhD student, 9/2018 - 2/2024 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: FPGA 2021 Paper [C20] Highlighted in ACM TRETS Special Issue Award: SFU Graduate Travel and Research Award, Summer 2023 Intern: Huawei Big Data Team, Canada, 12/2022 - 4/2023; Meta, Redmond, WA, USA, 6/2022 - 10/2022 First position: ASIC Engineer, Meta (Facebook), Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
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Junzhe Liang, MASc student, 9/2021 - 4/2024 Bachelor, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2021 |
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Kartik Samtani, MEng student, 1/2021 - 12/2023 Bachelor, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India, 2017 Papers: [J15, TRETS 2023] Award: SFU Graduate Dean's Entrance Scholarship (GDES) Intern: Huawei Big Data Team, Canada, 12/2022 - 4/2023 Other industry experience: Samsung and Texas Instruments, Bangalore, India, 2017-2021 First position: Staff Engineer, ASIC Digital Design, Synopsys, Missisauga, ON, Canada |
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Weihua Liu, MEng student, 9/2019 - 12/2023 Bachelor, Marquette University, USA, 2017 Research Assistant, Marquette University, USA, 2019 Papers: [C20, FPGA 2021] Award: FPGA 2021 Paper [C20] Highlighted in ACM TRETS Special Issue |
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Moazin Khatti, MASc student, 9/2021 - 11/2023 Bachelor, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Pakistan, 2020 Papers: [C32, FCCM 2023][J14, TRETS 2023] Intern: d-Matrix, Canada, 5/2023 - 11/2023 First position: Backend Compiler Engineer, d-Matrix, Canada |
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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 |
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.
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Sponsors
We thank the generous funding from all sponsors (no specific order)!
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