FishSense has been on a tear recently. FishSense won the inaugural Transdisciplinary Collaboration Award at the 2024 Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo. This comes on the heels of other accolades including a CA CARES research award and finalist at … Continue reading
Alireza Khodamoradi, Stephen Neuendorffer, and Kristof Denolf visited UCSD to discuss the latest and greatest at AMD. Ali, Steve, and Kristof are all part of AMD Research and Development Group. Ali discussed his research on new data types for hardware-accelerated … Continue reading
Ryan was elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to the design and security of reconfigurable systems.” This is a great honor, though, in retrospect, it is purely a consequence that Ryan has worked with many outstanding researchers over the years. … Continue reading
Skip connections are valuable for training Residual Neural Networks (ResNets), helping them converge to a better solution faster. But skip connections add overhead to the hardware implementation; they require additional on-chip memory and other resources and larger memory bandwidths. Skip … Continue reading
Since 2009, the annual Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship has enabled Qualcomm to help foster the research and development of new technologies in key areas of interest to the semiconductor industry through investments in Ph.D. students and their forward-thinking ideas. Members of … Continue reading
With over 1.2 billion smartphones shipped in 2021, it’s clear that they are a ubiquitous part of our lives. Smartphones have a relatively short lifespan; the average upgrade cycle is two years. People replace them for different reasons — they … Continue reading
We had a busy, but enjoyable time at the International Symposium on FPGAs. It is always great to visit the beautiful Monterey Peninsula. The festivities started on Sunday, when Dustin Richmond, Ryan Kastner, Jeff Goeders, and Mirjana Stojilović organized the … Continue reading
Andres (Andy) Meza was awarded a 2022 National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Graduate Fellowship (CSGrad4US). CSGrad4US “aims to increase the number and diversity of domestic graduate students pursuing research and innovation careers.” Andy is a Research … Continue reading
Kastner Research Group alum Dustin Richmond started as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz this Fall. Dustin got his Ph.D. in 2018 and spent a few years as a post-doc at … Continue reading
Congratulations to Colin Drewes for being awarded the 2022 UCSD Department of Computer Science and Engineering MS Research Award. Colin worked in our research group for almost three years – first as a CS undergraduate and during the past year … Continue reading