Friday, August 7, 2026

Thesis Defence

Aaron Yu DATE: Monday, August 17, 2026, 11:00, Location: online (Zoom link) THESIS (MASc.) TITLE: Hardware-Optimized Spiking Neural Networks for High-Speed Event-Based Optical Flow Estimation Abstract: This thesis presents EmFlow, a hardware-oriented spiking neural network (SNN) for high-speed embedded event-based optical flow estimation. EmFlow... More

Friday, August 7, 2026

New Publication

F. Khani, Y. Khakipoor and A. Ahmadi, A Cost-Efficient Chaotic Neuron for Learning Enhancement in Spiking Neural Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, doi: 10.1109/TETCI.2026.3716875. Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are increasingly valued for their ability to emulate the temporal dynamics of... More

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

AMD AI DevMaster Hackathon

We encourage everyone to join the AMD AI DevMaster Hackathon, a global online competition for developers, researchers, students, AI practitioners, and open-source contributors. Build innovative AI applications accelerated by AMD聽Radeon鈩� GPUs and the ROCm鈩� software stack and compete for a share of the $30,000 USD prize pool. Good luck! SHaRe... More

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

UVM-4-SNN Hardware Design and Verification

Friday, June 26, 2026 | 10:00 AM 鈥� 11:00 AM The SHaRe Lab is pleased to host Aliza Ghani on the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and its application to Spiking Neural Network Design. Aliza will introduce UVM (IEEE 1800.2) as a framework for verifying complex digital designs, walking through the verification challenges that motivate... More

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Reliability-Aware Memristor Crossbar Computing: From Device Non-Idealities to System-Level Neuromorphic Execution

Monday, June 2, 2026 | 1:00 PM 鈥� 2:00 PM Room ME4124, Mackenzie Building | 杏吧原创 University We are pleased to host Jin Shi, PhD candidate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham, for a seminar on reliability-aware memristor crossbar computing and its applications in neuromorphic systems. Abstract This talk... More

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Intelligent Systems and Environments: Bridging the Software and Hardware Gap

We are please to have Mohammad Haider Arif sharing with us his experience in multi-agent systems, graph-based workflow orchestration, LLM-based agent coordination, JAX simulation, and hardware interfacing (UDP-CAN). He is exploring research opportunities with the SHaRe Lab and will share his background and ideas on how his work connects to our... More

Monday, May 11, 2026

Seminar Recap: Compact Modeling of Threshold Switching Devices for Memory and Neuromorphic Circuits

Dr. Mohamad Moner Al Chawa with SHaRe Lab members, May 5, 2026 | 11:00 AM | Room ME4124, Mackenzie Building | 杏吧原创 University We were pleased to host Dr. Mohamad Moner Al Chawa for a seminar on compact modeling of memristive threshold switching devices and their applications in memory and neuromorphic circuits. Dr. Al... More

Thursday, April 30, 2026

New Publication

Aaron Yu; Arash Ahmadi; Leonard MacEachern, "A Spiking Neural Network Based Hough Transform Implementation for FPGAs", IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, April 2026. Abstract: Leveraging their inherent suitability for low power, parallel computation, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are an emergent topic in... More

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Compact Modeling of Threshold Switching Devices for Memory and Neuromorphic Circuits

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | 11:00 AM 鈥� 12:00 PM Room ME4124, Mackenzie Building | 杏吧原创 University We are pleased to invite all faculty, students, and researchers to a seminar by Dr. Mohamad Moner Al Chawa from TU Dresden, Germany. Threshold switching devices, such as Ovonic Threshold Switching (OTS) devices, are promising nonlinear nanoscale... More

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Industry Talk: Advanced FPGA Design Practices

April 22, 2026 | 4:30 PM 鈥� 6:00 PM | Nicol Building, Room 5010 | 杏吧原创 University It was a great pleasure to host Dessislav Valkov, a senior FPGA engineer at Fidus Systems, for our Winter 2026 industry engagement series. Drawing from his extensive industry experience, Des delivered a technical and highly practical talk... More

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

Friday, May 24, 2024

Immersive Pacman Game – DoE Capstone Project

The 2023-2024 Capstone project team of Owen Krueger, Orit Hashim, Peter Egbikuadje, and Michael Loh, supervised by Dr. Arash Ahmadi, developed an innovative Immersive Pacman Game. In this project Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) implementation on FPGA are used to control an intelligent agent (Pacman) in real-time. Unlike traditional AI methods... More

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