This collaborative work involves a team of researchers from several areas of UCLA.  Professor Jason Cong and Professor Tad Blair from UCLA’s Brain Research Institute are refining the wireless miniscope to give it built-in, energy-efficient computing capability for real-time feedback and analysis. Please read about this ground-breaking research on the UCLA Newsroom website: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/8-3-million-grant-from-national-science-foundation-will-help-ucla-spread-technology-behind-mini-microscope

The full press release is available at:  http://engineering.ucla.edu/augmented-reality-making-it-secure-fast-efficient-and-resilient/

Congratulations to Peng Wei (advisor: Prof. Jason Cong) for receiving the 2016-2017 Symantec Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.

Congratulations to Bingjun Xiao (PhD’2015, advisor, Jason Cong), whose dissertation “Communication Optimization for Customizable Domain-Specific Computing”, has been awarded the 2016 EDAA Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award.  The award was presented at the conference DATE 2017 – Design, Automation & Test in Europe, on Mar 28 in Lausanne, Switzerland.The full press release of EDAA is available at http://www.edaa.com/press_releases/EDAA_Award_2016_Results.pdf…
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In celebrating the 25th anniversary of the FPGA Symposium, which took place  February 22nd through 24th in Monterey, California, ACM/SIGDA TCFPGA initiated the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame program at the symposium.  The paper entitled “FlowMap: An Optimal Technology Mapping Algorithm for Delay Optimization in Lookup-Table Based FPGA Designs” by Prof. Jason Cong and his former PhD student Dr….
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Three faculty members of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science – Jason Cong and George Varghese of Computer Science, and Behzad Razavi of Electrical Engineering (pictured left to right above) – have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest honors that can be accorded to an American engineer. The academy announced the 2017 class of…
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Dr. Zhenman Fang, advised by Professor Cong, is selected as one of the four Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) inaugural fellows. Dr. Fang is researching on how new computer architectures can impact DNA sequencing technology. The IDRE fellowship program was initiated as a mechanism to build a cohort of UCLA postdoctoral scholars and early career researchers…
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Dr. Zhenman Fang presented the Blaze demo on Dec 6, 2016 at the C-FAR (Center for Future Architectures Research) annual review hosted at University of Michigan. The Blaze demo won the 3rd place out of 49 demos from 15 top universities. Congratulations to all Blaze team members: Muhuan Huang, Di Wu, Cody Yu, Zhenman Fang, Matteo Interlandi,…
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Prof. Jason Cong delivered the opening keynote speech at the The 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2016) on August 8, 2016 held at Long Beach, California.  NAS provides a high-quality international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage…
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Di Wu, advised by Professor Cong, is selected as 2016-2017 Dissertation Year Fellows by the UCLA Graduate Division. The fellowship program’s intention is to support the final year of graduate school at the disertation writing stage and to facilitate the start of the teaching or research appointments soon after the end of the dissertation fellowship…
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