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					  10 September 2025 -  PhD Student Chun-yan Lo graduated sucessfully. 
					 
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					  8 September 2025 -  Our group's team building at Cornwall Park. 
					 
 
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					  4 September 2025 -  Professor Xiandong Li from Northeast Forestry University (China) is visiting us between 1 September, 2025 and 31 March, 2026 
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			1 September 2025 -  New PhD student Yuanjing Li finally arrived at Auckland. 
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					  23 July 2025 -  PhD student Grace Jiang from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China) is visiting us between 1 July, 2025 and 31 December, 2025 
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			1 July 2025 -  New PhD student Xu Chen finally arrived at Auckland. 
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					  14 May 2025 -  PhD Student Brian Zhong graduated sucessfully. 
					 
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					  7-25 April 2025 -  I am teaching in the Northeast Forrestry University at Harbin. 
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					  27 March 2025 -  I am visiting Shanghai Fudan University. I am giving a guest lecture and meeting with Prof. Jun Tao. 
					  
 
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					  1 March 2025 -  PhD student Jing Shang from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China) is visiting us between 1 March, 2025 and 31 February, 2026 
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					  10 January 2025 -  Lecturer Yujia Liu from College of Electrical and Information Engineering of Changchun Institute of Technology (China) is visiting us between 1 January, 2025 and 31 December, 2026 
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					  2 January 2025 -  I am visiting National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and meeting with Prof. Lan-Da Van. 
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					  20-28 December 2024 -  I am visiting The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and meeting with Prof. Francis Lau. 
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					  19 December 2024 -  I am visiting ASTRI. 
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			30 October 2024 -  Zhihang Liu presented the paper "A Mobile Computing-Friendly Stock Price Trend Prediction Model" in GCCE 2024 and obtained the GCCE 2024 Presentation Award [certificate]. 
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					  1 September 2024 -  PhD student Zaibo Liu from Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University (China) is visiting us between 1 September, 2024 and 31 August, 2025 
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					  23 May 2024 -  I am visiting The Chinese University of Hong Kong and meeting with Prof. Evan Young. 
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					  21 May 2024 -  I am attending ISCAS 2024 in Singapore and meeting with Prof. Francis Lau (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University). 
					 
 
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					  13 May 2024 -  Our group's team building at Cornwall Park. 
					 
 
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					  13 April 2024 -  I am visiting The Northeastern University (China) and meeting with Prof. Chong Fu. 
					 
 
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			29 March 2024 -  New PhD student Zhengduo Xiao finally arrived at Auckland. 
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			27 March 2024 -   Project "An Intelligent Rail Inspection Robot for Automated Fault Detection" have been selected as the finalist for the Pervasive AI Developer Contest which have also been selected to receive a Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit. 
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					  12 December 2023 -  PhD student Shiyao Sun from Northeastern University (China) is visiting us between 12 December, 2023 and 11 November, 2025 
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			11 October 2023 -  Brian Zhong presented the paper "A RISC-V Based SoC with Configurable CPK Sensor Interface for ECU on Motorcycle" [pdf] in GCCE 2023 
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					  28 August 2023 -  Our group's team building at Piha. 
					 
 
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					  24 August 2023 -  New PhD student Jiale Li finally arrived at Auckland. 
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					  21 August 2023 -  Graduated PhD Student Sean Ma has become the lecturer (Computer Systems) in the University of Auckland. [link] 
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					  14 June 2023 -  New PhD student Zhihang Liu finally arrived at Auckland. 
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					  28 May 2023 -  PhD Student Sean Ma graduated sucessfully. 
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					  28 May 2023 -  PhD student Ran Wu from Harbin Institute of Technology is visiting us between 14 May, 2023 and 13 May, 2024 
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						22 April 2023 -  Luke Yue presented the paper "Sea View Extension for Semantic Segmentation in Cityscapes" [pdf] in ICASI 2023 
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					  04 December 2022 -  New PhD student Luke Yue finally arrived at Auckland. 
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					  14 October 2022 -  Our paper is awarded Bronze Leaf Certificate (20-30%) [certificate] in PrimeAsia 2022. The corresponding paper (Xinchao Zhong, Chiu-wing Sham, Haiquan Li and Yan Li, A 14-Bit Pulse-Width Modulation DAC for Consumer Electronics and IoT) is also published in the conference.  
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					  28 August 2022 -  PhD Student Raul graduated sucessfully. 
					 
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					  11 May 2021 -  I am being selected to be the Associate Editor (8 people in total) of IEEE Access - Section on Consumer Technology Society. The related information has been updated on IEEE CTSoc website [Link].  
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					23 December 2020 -  PhD student Raul has won the first place in the Adaptable Compute Acceleration Category in the Xilinx Adaptive Computing Challenge.
					[Winning Project]
					[Contest information]
					 
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					7 September 2020 -  PhD student Raul has been one of 20 hardware (Alveo U50 Accelerator Card Loan/Nimbix) winners in Xilinx Adaptive Computing Contest 2020. 
					[link]
					 
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					15 September 2019 -  Project "Neuroevolved Binary networks accelerated by FPGA" have been selected as the regional finialist for the 2019 Innovate FPGA Design contest.
					 
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					15 September 2019 -  Project "An Iris Recognition System Enhanced by Forward Error Correction Code" have been selected as the regional finialist for the 2019 Innovate FPGA Design contest.
					 
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					2 September 2019 -  Professor Lin Wang from The Xiamen University is visiting with us between 2 September and 11 September, 2019
					 
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					25 April 2019 - I am elevated to the grade of Senior Member of IEEE in April, 2019
					 
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					1 February 2019 - I am promoted as Senior Lecturer in February, 2019
					 
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					25 January 2019 - I am visiting Professor Francis C. M. Lau at The Hong Kong Polytechnic Unversity between 25 January and 3 February, 2019
					 
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					9 July 2018 - I am visiting Professor Evan F. Y. Young at The Chinese Unversity of Hong Kong between 9 July and 12 July, 2018 
					 
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					10 June 2018 - Professor Francis C. M. Lau from The Hong Kong Polytechnic Unversity is visiting with us between 10 June and 16 June, 2018 
					 
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					04 April 2017 - Post-doctorate Hung-pu Chou is visiting with us between 4 April and 15 June, 2017 
					 
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					26 July 2016 - Our team obtained the 
					3rd place in the Design Competition 
					of the 
					International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable 
	Technologies (HEART), 2016.
					[certificate] 
					
					
					 
 
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					16 December 
					2015 - Our team obtained the 
					3rd place in the Design Competition of the 
					International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT), 2015. 
					The corresponding paper (Qing Lu,
	Chiu-Wing Sham and Francis C. M. Lau, "An 
	Architecture-Algorithm Co-Design of Artificial Intelligence for Trax 
					Player") is also published in this conference.
					[certificate] 
					 
 
					 
 
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					20 October 
					2015 -
	Our paper entitled, "A Parallel-Routing Network 
	for Reliability Inferences of Single-Parity-Check Decoder" by Qing Lu; Zhuoer Shen; 
					Chiu-Wing Sham; Francis C. M. Lau has been awarded a 
					Best Paper 
	Award of The 2015 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for 
	Communications (ATC). This is a great achievement given that the ratio for 
	best paper awards is only 1.5% (2 out of 125 accepted papers). [certificate] 
					