Arash Ahmadi,
PhD, SMIEEE, P.Eng

Director of SHaRe Lab
Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Arash Ahmadi received the Ph.D. degree in electronics from the University of Southampton, U.K., in 2008. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Fellow Researcher with the SpiNNaker project at the University of Southampton. He is a faculty member with the Department of Electronics at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. His current research interests include circuit design and optimization for neuromorphic computing, physical AI, AI-on-a-Chip, bio-inspired computing, memristors, and hardware security and trust.

MASc Students

Master’s researchers working on FPGA/ASIC design, neuromorphic computing, embedded systems, and hardware acceleration.

Tahir Towsif
MASc Student
Currently pursuing an MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, supervised by Dr. Arash Ahmadi. He received his B.Eng. in Biomedical & Electrical Engineering from Carleton. His research interests include embedded systems, FPGA-based hardware acceleration, and digital IC design. He has previously worked on the design of spiking neural network (SNN) accelerators on FPGAs for biomedical signal classification.
Brendan Kennedy
MASc Student
Currently pursuing an MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, supervised by Dr. Arash Ahmadi. He received his B.Eng. degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Carleton. His research interests include digital hardware implementation and optimization for machine learning, with an emphasis on the design of efficient FPGA-based hardware accelerators for neural networks.
Mohmad Al Aidie
MASc Student
Earned his Bachelor of Engineering at Carleton University and is currently pursuing an MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carleton University. His research focuses on leveraging FPGAs to design hardware accelerators for Spiking Neural Networks, with interests spanning digital IC design, embedded systems, and hardware reliability.
Aaranan Sathiendran
MASc Student
A Master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carleton University under the supervision of Dr. Arash Ahmadi. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Carleton University. His research interests include embedded systems, AI/ML, and hardware acceleration.
Chun Wang
MASc Student
Holds a B.Eng. in Microelectronics from South China University of Technology. He is currently pursuing an MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, where his research centers on microelectronics and digital IC design.
Nosherwan Ahmed
MASc Student
Received his BASc degree with distinction in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2016. He is currently working as an ASIC Design Engineer at Nokia, where he is involved with hardware design of the next generation of coherent DSP ASICs for optical communications. He is also pursuing his MASc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carleton University. His research interests include low-power hardware implementation of digital signal processing and forward error correction algorithms, cryptography, and communication systems.
Dhriti Aravind
MASc Student
Currently pursuing a Master of Applied Science (MASc) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carleton University.
Aaron Yu
MASc Student
Aaron Yu is a graduate of the Master of Applied Science (MASc) program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, with work spanning hardware design, AI acceleration, and bio-inspired computing. His research focus is on spiking neural networks (SNNs) and how they can be used to perform energy-efficient computation through FPGA-based implementations. He is also interested in software-hardware co-design and bridging the gap between software and hardware understanding.
Nadia Ahmed
MASc Student
(MASc Candidate, Carleton University) is a Master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carleton University. Her research interests include neuromorphic computing, edge AI, and hardware-efficient machine learning. She is particularly interested in implementing spiking neural networks on resource-constrained platforms such as FPGAs and microcontrollers, as well as exploring biomedical signal-processing applications.
Peter Lawrence
MASc Student
A passion for music growing up led to an interest in electronics and signal processing. In pursuing this interest, integrated circuit design presented itself as a technologically relevant medium for these interests.