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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Industry Talk: Advanced FPGA Design Practices

Industry Talk: Advanced FPGA Design Practices with Fidus Systems April 22, 2026 | 4:30 PM 鈥� 6:00 PM | Nicol Building, Room 5010 (NI 5010) We are pleased to host Dessislav Valkov, a senior FPGA engineer at Fidus Systems, This technical talk draws from a curated set of advanced FPGA design topics reflecting real-world... More

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Industry Engagement: Drop-In Session with Fidus Microsystems

  It was a great pleased to host Victor Dumitriu and Matt Fransham from Fidus Microsystems for the second drop-in session of our Winter 2026 industry engagement series. The session brought together students for an open, informal discussion with two experienced FPGA engineers. Students had the opportunity to present their ongoing projects and... More

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Network with Industry Professionals 鈥� Fidus Drop-In Session | Mar 25

March 11th, we are hosting Fidus Microsystems at DoE FPGA/SoC Dropping Centre. 鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹�鈹� Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026 Time: 4:30 PM 鈥� 6:00 PM Location: Mackenzie Building, Room 4166 (ME 4166) Guests: Victor Dumitru & Matt Frasham (Fidus Microsystems)... More

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Industry Talk Recap: Bridging the Gap Between Student and Industry Professional

March 11, 2026 | 4:30 PM 鈥� 6:00 PM | ME 3328, Mackenzie Building We were pleased to host Christian Kamps, a Department of Electronics alumnus and FPGA Designer at Fidus Microsystems, for an engaging industry talk tailored to students considering careers in digital hardware design. Drawing directly on his own transition from 杏吧原创... More

Friday, March 6, 2026

New Publication

Takaloo, Hadis, Arash Ahmadi, and Majid Ahmadi. "One-Dimensional Bistable Physically Unclonable Functions: Analysis and Dynamical System Model."聽Journal of Hardware and Systems Security聽10, no. 1 (2026): 2. Abstract: We propose the analysis and dynamical system model for one-dimensional bistable Physically Unclonable Function (PUF). Our work is... More

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Bridging the Gap Between Engineering Student/Academic versus an Industry Professional

Industry Talk: The Role and Responsibilities of a Junior FPGA Designer March 11, 2026 | 4:30 PM 鈥� 6:00 PM Location: ME 3328 (Mackenzie) We are pleased to host an industry session featuring Christian Kamps, (杏吧原创 Alum) and Matt Carswell from聽Fidus Systems. Talk Title 鈥淏ridging the Gap Between Engineering Student/Academic versus an Industry... More

Friday, February 27, 2026

Industry Seminar: Memory Self-Repair

We host an industry seminar by Luc Romain, Principal Software Development Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Luc will present 鈥淚ntroduction to Design-For-Test (DFT) and Memory Self-Repair鈥�, offering an overview of modern structural test methodologies used in advanced SoC and ASIC development. Date: Tuesday, March 3 Time: 7:00 PM... More

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

杏吧原创 脳 Fidus Systems: FPGA Drop-In Session (Feb 25, 2026)

We are pleased to host the first Winter 2026 Fidus Systems FPGA Drop-In session, launching a new series of industry-supported student engagement events focused on practical FPGA and SoC design. Fidus engineers鈥擠essislav Valkov and Arnold Balish鈥攚ill be on campus to meet with students, answer questions, and discuss real-world design workflows,... More

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

New Publication

Hejazi, Elhamsadat, Majid Ahmadi, and Arash Ahmadi. "Robust Face Recognition and Classification Under Occlusion Using a Refined Transformer-Based Attention Mechanism."聽IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering聽(2026). Robust face recognition under partial occlusions remains a key challenge in real-world biometric and... More

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

New Publication

Farsa, Edris Zaman, Arash Ahmadi, and Oliver Keszocze. "Reconfigurable Digital FPGA Implementations for Neuromorphic Computing: A Survey on Recent Advances and Future Directions."聽IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence聽(2025). Abstract: Neuromorphic computing represents hardware and software paradigms that emulate... More

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

New Publication

Rahmatinezhad, Mitra, and Arash Ahmadi. "A Digital Realization of Calcium Movement in the Cellular Bouton."聽IEEE Access聽(2024). Abstract:聽Modeling, analyzing, and simulating biological neural networks have attracted significant interest because of their wide-ranging applications in neuroscience and computational systems. Understanding and... More

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Thesis Defense

杏吧原创 University Department of Electronics Master's Thesis Examination:聽 Mahshid Rajati DATE: Tuesday December 10, 2024, 9:00, Location: seminar room 4124ME and online THESIS TITLE: Hardware Oriented Evolutionary Spiking Neural Network Abstract:聽With the increasing complexity of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), power and resource... More

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