Congratulations to Prof. Cong for his paper titled “Optimizing FPGA-based Accelerator Design for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks,” published at the 23rd International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA’15) and co-authored with Chen Zhang, Peng Li, Guangyu Sun, Yijin Guan, and Bingjun Xiao, being inducted into the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame by the ACM SIGDA Technical Committee on FPGAs and Reconfigurable Computing.  This paper presented the first FPGA acceleration of deep neural networks, and has over 2,500 citations as of the end of 2024. This is the fifth paper co-authored by Prof. Cong to be inducted into the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame.

For the original paper and the endorsement, please visit https://tcfpga.org/books/hall-of-fame/page/hall-of-fame-inductees