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

  
  Prof. Zhenman Fang

Current HiAccel Members



  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: [J17, TIP 2024][C43, ECCV 2024][C35, ICASSP 2024][C34, DCC 2024]


  Xingyu Tian, PhD student, since Sept 2019
  Transferred from MASc to PhD since May 2021
  Bachelor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2019
  Papers (7): [C44, FPT 2024][C37, PacRim 2024][C33, FPGA 2024][C32, FCCM 2023][J19, TRETS 2024][J14, TRETS 2023][J13, TRETS 2023]
  Award: PacRim 2024 Paper [C37] with the Highest Review Score in Computers Track
  Award: FPGA 2024 Paper [C33] with the Highest Review Score
  Award: SFU Graduate Travel and Research Award, Fall 2024
  
  Philip Stachura, PhD student, since Sept 2023
  Transferred from MASc to PhD since Sept 2024
  Bachelor, Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2023
  Papers: [C42, FPL 2024]
  Award: FPL 2024 Stamatis Vassiliadis Best Paper Award, Paper [C42]
  Award: NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships - Master’s (CGS-M), 2024-2025; BC Graduate Scholarship, 2024
  Award: SFU Graduate Travel and Research Award, Fall 2024
  
  Ahmad Sedigh Baroughi, PhD student, since Sept 2023
  MASc, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, 2018
  Papers: [J19, TRETS 2024]
  
  Qilin Hu, Visiting PhD student, since Nov 2023
  PhD student, Hunan University, China


  Kenny Liu, Accelerated MASc student, since May 2021
  MASc program since May 2022
  Bachelor/MASc combined program, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  Papers: [C39, FPL 2024][C29, HPCA 2023][J15, TRETS 2023]
  Award: NSERC USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Awards), 2021
  Award: SFU Graduate Travel and Research Award, Fall 2024
  
  Manoj BR, MASc student, since Sept 2022
  Bachelor, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India, 2022
  Papers: [C37, PacRim 2024][C33, FPGA 2024]
  Award: PacRim 2024 Paper [C37] with the Highest Review Score in Computers Track
  Award: FPGA 2024 Paper [C33] with the Highest Review Score
  Award: Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship, 2022
  Intern: d-Matrix, Canada, 5/2024 - present
  
  Abdul Wadood, MASc student, since Sept 2022
  Bachelor, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Pakistan, 2019
  Papers: [C38, FPL 2024]
  Award: SFU Graduate Travel and Research Award, Fall 2024
  Intern: Huawei Big Data Team, Canada, 12/2022 - present
  Other industry experience: Alba Engineering Company and Turing, Pakistan, 2019-2022
  
  William Xue, Accelerated MASc student, since Sept 2022
  MASc program since Jan 2023
  Bachelor/MASc combined program, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  Papers: [C41, FPL 2024][C36, ICS 2024]
  Award: NSERC USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Awards), 2022; BC Graduate Scholarship, 2023
  
  Dilshan Sampath, MASc student, since Sept 2022
  Bachelor, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2018
  Industry experience: Synopsys Inc., Sri Lanka, 2018-2022
  
  Akhil Raj Barnawal, MASc student, since Sept 2023
  Bachelor, BITS Pilani, India, 2020
  Papers: [J19, TRETS 2024]
  Industry experience: Micron and Imagination Technologies, India, 2020-2023
  
  Haikai Zhao, MASc student, since May 2024
  Bachelor, Fudan University, China, 2021
  Industry experience: Alibaba Cloud, China, 2021-2024



Past HiAccel Members


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)!