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Thursday, March 26, 2026<\/p>

Industry Engagement: Drop-In Session with Fidus Microsystems<\/h3>

  It was a great pleased to host Victor Dumitriu and Matt Fransham from Fidus Microsystems for the second drop-in session of our Winter 2026 industry engagement series. The session brought together students for an open, informal discussion with two experienced FPGA engineers. Students had the opportunity to present their ongoing projects and... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, March 18, 2026<\/p>

Network with Industry Professionals \u2013 Fidus Drop-In Session | Mar 25<\/h3>

March 11th, we are hosting Fidus Microsystems at DoE FPGA\/SoC Dropping Centre. \u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500\u2500 Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026 Time: 4:30 PM \u2013 6:00 PM Location: Mackenzie Building, Room 4166 (ME 4166) Guests: Victor Dumitru & Matt Frasham (Fidus Microsystems)... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, March 12, 2026<\/p>

Industry Talk Recap: Bridging the Gap Between Student and Industry Professional<\/h3>

March 11, 2026 | 4:30 PM \u2013 6:00 PM | ME 3328, Mackenzie Building We were pleased to host Christian Kamps, a Department of Electronics alumnus and FPGA Designer at Fidus Microsystems, for an engaging industry talk tailored to students considering careers in digital hardware design. Drawing directly on his own transition from Carleton... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, March 6, 2026<\/p>

New Publication<\/h3>

Takaloo, Hadis, Arash Ahmadi, and Majid Ahmadi. "One-Dimensional Bistable Physically Unclonable Functions: Analysis and Dynamical System Model."\u00a0Journal of Hardware and Systems Security\u00a010, no. 1 (2026): 2. Abstract: We propose the analysis and dynamical system model for one-dimensional bistable Physically Unclonable Function (PUF). Our work is... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, March 3, 2026<\/p>

Bridging the Gap Between Engineering Student\/Academic versus an Industry Professional<\/h3>

Industry Talk: The Role and Responsibilities of a Junior FPGA Designer March 11, 2026 | 4:30 PM \u2013 6:00 PM Location: ME 3328 (Mackenzie) We are pleased to host an industry session featuring Christian Kamps, (Carleton Alum) and Matt Carswell from\u00a0Fidus Systems. Talk Title \u201cBridging the Gap Between Engineering Student\/Academic versus an Industry... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, February 27, 2026<\/p>

Industry Seminar: Memory Self-Repair<\/h3>

We host an industry seminar by Luc Romain, Principal Software Development Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software. Luc will present \u201cIntroduction to Design-For-Test (DFT) and Memory Self-Repair\u201d, offering an overview of modern structural test methodologies used in advanced SoC and ASIC development. Date: Tuesday, March 3 Time: 7:00 PM... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, February 18, 2026<\/p>

Carleton \u00d7 Fidus Systems: FPGA Drop-In Session (Feb 25, 2026)<\/h3>

We are pleased to host the first Winter 2026 Fidus Systems FPGA Drop-In session, launching a new series of industry-supported student engagement events focused on practical FPGA and SoC design. Fidus engineers\u2014Dessislav Valkov and Arnold Balish\u2014will be on campus to meet with students, answer questions, and discuss real-world design workflows,... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, February 18, 2026<\/p>

New Publication<\/h3>

Hejazi, Elhamsadat, Majid Ahmadi, and Arash Ahmadi. "Robust Face Recognition and Classification Under Occlusion Using a Refined Transformer-Based Attention Mechanism."\u00a0IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u00a0(2026). Robust face recognition under partial occlusions remains a key challenge in real-world biometric and... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, April 16, 2025<\/p>

New Publication<\/h3>

Farsa, Edris Zaman, Arash Ahmadi, and Oliver Keszocze. "Reconfigurable Digital FPGA Implementations for Neuromorphic Computing: A Survey on Recent Advances and Future Directions."\u00a0IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence\u00a0(2025). Abstract: Neuromorphic computing represents hardware and software paradigms that emulate... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, March 26, 2025<\/p>

New Publication<\/h3>

Rahmatinezhad, Mitra, and Arash Ahmadi. "A Digital Realization of Calcium Movement in the Cellular Bouton."\u00a0IEEE Access\u00a0(2024). Abstract:\u00a0Modeling, analyzing, and simulating biological neural networks have attracted significant interest because of their wide-ranging applications in neuroscience and computational systems. Understanding and... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, December 10, 2024<\/p>

Thesis Defense<\/h3>

Carleton University Department of Electronics Master's Thesis Examination:\u00a0 Mahshid Rajati DATE: Tuesday December 10, 2024, 9:00, Location: seminar room 4124ME and online THESIS TITLE: Hardware Oriented Evolutionary Spiking Neural Network Abstract:\u00a0With the increasing complexity of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), power and resource... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, May 24, 2024<\/p>

Immersive Pacman Game – DoE Capstone Project<\/h3>

The 2023-2024 Capstone project team of Owen Krueger, Orit Hashim, Peter Egbikuadje, and Michael Loh, supervised by Dr. Arash Ahmadi, developed an innovative Immersive Pacman Game. In this project Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) implementation on FPGA are used to control an intelligent agent (Pacman) in real-time. Unlike traditional AI methods... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div><\/div>

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