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Past Students

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:41:10 +0800

I have been fortunate enough to have supervised many very talented students. Here is a partial list with links to their email addresses and dissertations.

DELTA08 Conference

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:38:19 +0800

Attended the DELTA08 conference in Hong Kong where I gave an invited talk in a special session on "High Performance Reconfigurable Computing." Here is a link to the paper.

10 Sonnets Concerning Field Programmable Technology

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:43:33 +0800

At the International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT), I gave an invited talk in a panel session entitled "What's exciting about FPT".

In my talk, I presented 10 sonnets about FPT and a copy of my slides are available here. I encourage others to write their own FPT poetry.

FPL Outstanding Paper Award

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:17:00 +0800

We won the FPL outstanding paper award this year. More information is available here.

Research position in our lab

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:56:55 +0800

Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Fellow Position

Our group is seeking a motivated individual for a 1 year government funded appointment commencing November 2007. The project involves developing tools to compile financial engineering Monte Carlo simulation applications to a high level synthesis language such as Handel-C. The ideal applicant would have experience in one or more of the following areas: reconfigurable computing, financial engineering and compiler construction.

Flying with the Government Flying Service

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:01:10 +0800

Was fortunate enough to be invited by my colleague, Prof. K.H. Wong, to join a pretend search and rescue mission with the HK Government Flying Service this afternoon. The aim was to test software that they developed. Here are the pictures.

Forster fishing and camping Aug 2007

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:30:46 +0800

Forster is about a four hour drive from Sydney. Went on a very brief overnight camping/fishing trip with my good friends from Sydney University, Warren and Chris. All the images from this trip can be seen here

Finland Pike Fishing June 2007

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:34:48 +0800

Pike Fishing (Finland June 2007)

To see pictures not in this article, click here.

HK Panorama

Mon, 28 May 2007 11:29:20 +0800

Here is a photo of HK's skyline.

Photographs

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:17:04 +0800

Here is an aerial photograph of Hong Kong I took in 2004. For other photos, see here.

Congratulations to Gary Chun Tak Chow (Croucher Scholarship)

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:54:36 +0800

Congratulations to Mr. Gary Chow Chun Tak, my joint M.Phil student with Prof Wen Li, who was awarded a Croucher Scholarship (http://www.croucher.org.hk/scholar1.htm). He will do his Ph.D study at Imperial College, UK. His thesis is on the "Design and Analysis of Single Chip CNTs Sensor".

Engineering Concert

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:13:14 +0800

Here are some pictures that Profs K.H. Lee, K.H. Wong and I took at this year's Engineering Concert.

JAlbum

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:33:01 +0800

JAlbum is an excellent program to create a gallery from a directory of photos. A few of my photos are here.

Biography

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:16:00 +0800

Philip Leong (M'84-SM'02) received the B.Sc., B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Sydney in 1986, 1988 and 1993 respectively. In 1993 he was a consultant to ST Microelectronics in Milan, Italy working on advanced flash memory-based integrated circuit design. From 1994-1997, he was a Lecturer at the University of Sydney. Since 1997, he has been with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he is a Professor and the director of the Custom Computing Laboratory. Dr Leong is also Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London and the Chief Technology Advisor to Cluster Technology. He was program co-chair of the FPT and FPL conferences and is an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems. The author of more than 100 technical papers and 4 patents, Dr. Leong was the recipient of the 2005 FPT conference best paper and 2007 FPL conference Stamatis Vassiliadis outstanding paper awards. His research interests include reconfigurable computing, signal processing, computer architecture, computer arithmetic and biologically inspired computing.

FPGA Conference Monterey

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:43:40 +0800

Here is a photo from the Monterey Beach Resort where the ACM International Symposium on FPGAs Conference was held.