CalgaryISH

The Calgary Intelligent Systems and Hardware (CalgaryISH) research group was started in 2021. Broadly speaking, our research group’s interests include (but are not limited to):

  • digital hardware design and electronic design automation (but largely before physical design)
  • hardware security
  • embedded systems
  • large language models and their (un)helpfulness in software and hardware design

For a little peek into the kinds of things I’m interested in, you can take a look at this paper

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Graduate Students

  • Raheel Afsharmazayejani (Ph.D.)
  • Raha Moradi Shahmiri (Ph.D.)
  • Parker Link (M.Sc.)
  • Mahdieh Abazar (Ph.D., with ldklab, co-supervised by L. De Carli)
  • Elahe Daei (Ph.D., with ldklab, co-supervised by L. De Carli)
  • Reyhaneh Farahmand (M.Sc., with ldklab, co-supervised by L. De Carli)
  • Yufan Feng (M.Sc., with CalgaryML Lab, main supervisor: Y. Ioannou)
  • Justin Ross (M.Sc., with Calgary Sensor Lab, main supervisor: Z. Ababsi)
  • Bryan Kwan (M.Sc. - incoming F’25)
  • Matthew Allwright (M.Sc. - incoming F’25)

Undergraduates and Interns

  • Nick Allison (UCalgary Summer Researcher)
  • Syed Zain Ali Jafri (Miatcs Globalink Intern)

Alumni

  • Anudeep Dharavathu (M.Sc. thesis) - now Senior Engineer @ Alphawave Semi
  • Abdelrahman Elnaggar (M.Sc. thesis, Research Assistant)
  • Subroto Kumer Deb Nath (M.Sc. thesis, Research Assistant)
  • Mitra Mirshafiee Khoozami (M.Sc., co-supervised with Ann Barcomb) - NLP Engineer @ Lucid Axon
  • James Platt (UG Thesis (ENEL 592/594))
  • Noureldin Amer (UG Thesis (ENEL 592/594))
  • James Bright (Mitacs Accelerate Intern (with Wosler Corp.)) - now Engineering Intern @ Wosler Corp.
  • Saman Pordanesh (UG Thesis (ENEL 592/594), Research Assistant)
  • Karan Dullat (UG Thesis (ENEL 592)) - now Engineering Technical Program Manager @ Microsoft
  • Joey Ah-kiow (UG Thesis (ENEL 592/594, UCalgary Summer Researcher) - now Ph.D. student at NYU
  • Dillon Sahdevan (UG Thesis (ENEL 592/594)) - prev. Software Engineer @ Garmin
  • Satota Mandal (Mitacs Globalink Intern)
  • Henil Dudat (Mitacs Globalink Intern)
  • Omar Ahmed (UCalgary Summer Researcher)
  • Anubhav Prasad (Mitacs Globalink Intern)

Acknowledgements

This research program is supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2022-03027]. Cette recherche a ´et´e financ´ee en partie par le Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada. Other support includes funding from Alberta Innovates and a gift from Intel Corporation. Some of our research has used tools provided by CMC Microsystems, manager of the FABrIC project funded by the Government of Canada. Some of our research was also facilitated by academic access provided by Verific. Some prior research work was supported by the NSF, SRC, and DARPA.