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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

New Publication

Zaman-Farsa, E., Ilkhani, A., Reichenbach, M., Yousefzadeh, A., Ahmadi, A., Serb, A., & Harkin, J. (2026). GPU and RISC-V acceleration for neuromorphic computing based on spiking neural networks: taxonomy, comparison, and open challenges. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering. doi: 10.1088/2634-4386/aea4eb Abstract: Neuromorphic computing... More

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

PolarFire FPGA Design Contest 2026–27

Check this exciting opportunity in the PolarFire® FPGA Design Contest 2026–27, organized by Microchip in partnership with DigiKey. The contest provides students and FPGA enthusiasts an opportunity to apply their design skills to real-world challenges, gain hands-on experience with Microchip FPGA platforms, and showcase their innovative... More

Friday, August 7, 2026

Thesis Defence

Aaron Yu DATE: Monday, August 17, 2026, 11:00, Location: online (Zoom link) THESIS (MASc.) TITLE: Hardware-Optimized Spiking Neural Networks for High-Speed Event-Based Optical Flow Estimation Abstract: This thesis presents EmFlow, a hardware-oriented spiking neural network (SNN) for high-speed embedded event-based optical flow estimation. EmFlow... More

Friday, August 7, 2026

New Publication

F. Khani, Y. Khakipoor and A. Ahmadi, A Cost-Efficient Chaotic Neuron for Learning Enhancement in Spiking Neural Networks, in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, doi: 10.1109/TETCI.2026.3716875. Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are increasingly valued for their ability to emulate the temporal dynamics of... More

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

AMD AI DevMaster Hackathon

We encourage everyone to join the AMD AI DevMaster Hackathon, a global online competition for developers, researchers, students, AI practitioners, and open-source contributors. Build innovative AI applications accelerated by AMD Radeon™ GPUs and the ROCm™ software stack and compete for a share of the $30,000 USD prize pool. Good luck! SHaRe... More

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

UVM-4-SNN Hardware Design and Verification

Friday, June 26, 2026 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM The SHaRe Lab is pleased to host Aliza Ghani on the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and its application to Spiking Neural Network Design. Aliza will introduce UVM (IEEE 1800.2) as a framework for verifying complex digital designs, walking through the verification challenges that motivate... More

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Reliability-Aware Memristor Crossbar Computing: From Device Non-Idealities to System-Level Neuromorphic Execution

Monday, June 2, 2026 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Room ME4124, Mackenzie Building | Carleton University We are pleased to host Jin Shi, PhD candidate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Nottingham, for a seminar on reliability-aware memristor crossbar computing and its applications in neuromorphic systems. Abstract This talk... More

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Intelligent Systems and Environments: Bridging the Software and Hardware Gap

We are please to have Mohammad Haider Arif sharing with us his experience in multi-agent systems, graph-based workflow orchestration, LLM-based agent coordination, JAX simulation, and hardware interfacing (UDP-CAN). He is exploring research opportunities with the SHaRe Lab and will share his background and ideas on how his work connects to our... More

Monday, May 11, 2026

Seminar Recap: Compact Modeling of Threshold Switching Devices for Memory and Neuromorphic Circuits

Dr. Mohamad Moner Al Chawa with SHaRe Lab members, May 5, 2026 | 11:00 AM | Room ME4124, Mackenzie Building | Carleton University We were pleased to host Dr. Mohamad Moner Al Chawa for a seminar on compact modeling of memristive threshold switching devices and their applications in memory and neuromorphic circuits. Dr. Al... More

Thursday, April 30, 2026

New Publication

Aaron Yu; Arash Ahmadi; Leonard MacEachern, "A Spiking Neural Network Based Hough Transform Implementation for FPGAs", IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, April 2026. Abstract: Leveraging their inherent suitability for low power, parallel computation, Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are an emergent topic in... More

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Compact Modeling of Threshold Switching Devices for Memory and Neuromorphic Circuits

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Room ME4124, Mackenzie Building | Carleton University We are pleased to invite all faculty, students, and researchers to a seminar by Dr. Mohamad Moner Al Chawa from TU Dresden, Germany. Threshold switching devices, such as Ovonic Threshold Switching (OTS) devices, are promising nonlinear nanoscale... More

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Industry Talk: Advanced FPGA Design Practices

April 22, 2026 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Nicol Building, Room 5010 | Carleton University It was a great pleasure to host Dessislav Valkov, a senior FPGA engineer at Fidus Systems, for our Winter 2026 industry engagement series. Drawing from his extensive industry experience, Des delivered a technical and highly practical talk... More

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