Zhenman Fang | Assistant Professor at SFU

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

	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 (17): [C39, FPL 2024][C38, FPL 2024][C36, ICS 2024][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] [J18, TRETS 2024][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

	Junzhe Liang, MASc student, 9/2021 - 4/2024 Bachelor, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2021 Papers: [C37, PacRim 2024] Award: PacRim 2024 Paper [C37] with the Highest Review Score in Computers Track First position: PhD Student, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

	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

	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 First position: Software Testing Engineer, Fortinet, Burnaby, BC, Canada

	Moazin Khatti, MASc student, 9/2021 - 11/2023 Bachelor, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Pakistan, 2020 Papers: [C32, FCCM 2023][J19, TRETS 2024][J14, TRETS 2023] Intern: d-Matrix, Canada, 5/2023 - 11/2023 First position: Backend Compiler Engineer, d-Matrix, Canada

	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

Guanyu Li, SFU VPR USRA (Undergraduate Student Research Awards), 5/2023-8/2024
Aamod B K, Mitacs Globalink Research Internship, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India, 5/2024-8/2024
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