Alumni

Postdoc Awardee

Dr. Chiwai YU (2011 Postdoctoral) Syner Wealth Technology
  • Research focus: TBC
  • Current position: TBC

PhD Awardees (19 in total)

Dr. Gavin Guangyan LI (Gavin) (2025 graduate) City University of Hong Kong
  • Research focus: Cryptographic Hardware
  • Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Gaoyu MAO (Gary) (2024 graduate) Huawei Hong Kong Research Center(HKRC)
  • Research focus: Edge Deployment of LLMs
  • Current position: Researcher
Dr. Songyang LYU (2024 graduate) FAW group, Changchun
  • Research focus: Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Systems and Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) Applications
  • Current position: Researcher
Dr. Abdurrashid Ibrahim SANKA (2021 graduate) Lead Engineer, Applied Science and Technology Research Institute City University of Hong Kong
  • Research focus: Blockchain, High Performance Reconfigurable Computing, Embedded Systems and Computer Arithmetics
  • Current position: Post-doctoral Fellow
Dr. Weipei HUANG (Vic) (2021 graduate) TBC
  • Research focus: Hardware Security and Cryptographic Implementation
  • Current position: TBC
Dr. Muhammad IRFAN (2021 graduate) Postdoctoral Fellow at FLAIR Hong Kong Assistant Professor at GIKI Pakistan City University of Hong Kong
  • Research focus: Microcontrollers, FPGAs, and Embedded Systems
  • Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Mehdi Hasan CHOWDHURY (2021 graduate) Department of EEE, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh
  • Research focus: Embedded Systems, Biomedical Engineering
  • Current position: Associate Professor
Dr. Zhe XU (Jack) (2020 graduate) Huawei, Shenzhen, China
  • Research focus: Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Transportation Systems and Fleet Management
  • Current position: Senior Engineer
Dr. Yao LIU (Yao) (2019 graduate) School of Microelectronics Science and Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Research focus: Hardware Security, Cryptographic Hardware, VLSI design and Computer Security
  • Current position: Assistant Professor
Dr. Wangchen DAI (Wilson) (2018 graduate) Senior Engineer, Huawei, Shenzhen Senior Researcher, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, China School of Cyber Science and Technology, SUN YAT-SEN University
  • Research focus: Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Reconfigurable Computing
  • Current position: Associate Professor
Dr. Jingwei HU (David) (2018 graduate) Nanyang Technological University
  • Research focus: Cryptographic Hardware Implementation
  • Current position: Post-doctoral Fellow
Dr. Biao MIN (Bill) (2018 graduate) Tencent Shenzhen
  • Research focus: Video Coding, HEVC, Hardware and VLSI
  • Current position: Senior Engineer
Dr. Benben LIU (2017 graduate) LSCM R&D Center, Lenovo, Hong Kong
  • Research focus: Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing and Machine Learning
  • Current position: Senior Researcher and Project Manager
Dr. Donglong CHEN (Donald) (2015 graduate) Huawei Tencent UIC, Zhuhai
  • Research focus: Data Security,Information Security, Cryptographic algorithm - hardware and software acceleration, Privacy computing, High-performance digital circuit design, Medical Image Processing
  • Current position: Associate Professor
Dr. Yao XIN (2015 graduate) Senior Engineer, Tencent, Shenzhen Pengchen Research Lab, Shenzhen
  • Research focus: Algorithm Acceleration, SmartNIC
  • Current position: Assistant Researcher
Dr. Zahid ULLAH (2014 graduate) SPak-Austria Fachhochschule Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
  • Research focus: FPGA-based CAMs, Re-configurable Computing, Pattern Recognition, Embedded Systems and Image Processing
  • Current position: HoD, and Assistant Professor
Dr. Manish Kumar JAISWAL (2014 graduate) Postdoc, HKU CPU Team, Huawei Hong Kong
  • Research focus: Arithmetic Circuit Architectures, Digital VLSI Design, Reconfigurable Computing, ASIC/FPGA SoC Design, VLSI Implementation of DSP, Hardware Synthesis of ANN, High-Performance Algorithmic Synthesis
  • Current position: Principal Engineer
Dr. Xiangyu LI (Will) (2013 graduate) Research Visiting Scholar, KU Leuven, BE Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  • Research focus: High-performance VLSI Circuits and Systems Design, Digital Signal Processing, Bio-electronic and Prosthetic Systems, and Reconfigurable and Customized Computing Technologies
  • Current position: Associate Professor
Dr. Xiaoxu YAO (Gavin) (2013 graduate) Hardware Engineer, NXP Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China NXP UK
  • Research focus: Hardware/Algorithm Codesign for Public-key Cryptography, Fast Arithmetic using Residue Number System, and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
  • Current position: Principal Engineer

Research Associate at CALAS

  • Mr. Junjie LIU TBC
  • Mr. Yiqing ZHANG TBC
  • Mr. Frank ZHAO PG Study, Columbia University
  • Mr. Pok Yee KWAN Ph.D. candidate, Imperial College
  • Mr. Xian YANG R&D Director, Accoresys, Shanghai, China
  • Ms. Kangni GUO Tencent Co. Ltd., Shenzhen, China
  • Mr. Zhenya ZANG Ph.D. candidate, University of Strathclyde
  • Mr. Tam Chu KWONG Ph.D. candidate, City University of Hong Kong

MPhil Project Students

  • Mr. Shuai YUAN (2023 graduate) TBC

MSc Project Students

2023-2024 Academic Year
  • Ms. Chengyi ZHANG (2024 graduate)
  • Mr. Hualong XU (2024 graduate)
  • Mr. Yihao LIU (2024 graduate)
  • Mr.Jiaguo JI (2024 graduate)
  • Ms. Leixin ZHAO (2024 graduate)
2022-2023 Academic Year
  • Ms. Wenqiu SHI (2023 graduate)
  • Mr. Wei JIANG (2023 graduate)
  • Mr. Haohao YANG (2023 graduate)
  • Mr. Tingjiang TAN (Rick) (2023 graduate)
2018-2019 Academic Year
  • Ms. Kelly Ip (2019 graduate) TBC
  • Mr. Cooper Tan (2019 graduate) TBC
  • Mr. Harry Hou (2019 graduate) TBC

Final Year Project Students

2023-2024 Academic Year
  • Miss. Siyi XIANG (Sylvia) (2024 graduate) Master in HKU
  • Mr. Weilun DUAN (Allen) (2024 graduate) Master in CityUHK
2022-2023 Academic Year
  • Mr. MA Haoxuan (Josh) (2023 graduate)
  • Mr. Yip Hoi Shun (Anson) (2023 graduate)
  • Mr. Yang Hao (Frank) (2023 graduate)
2020-2021 Academic Year
  • Ms. Yifei ZHAO (2021 graduate)
  • Mr. Kwun Yu WU (2021 graduate)
2018-2019 Academic Year
  • Mr. Gabriel ZHOU (2019 graduate) PG Study, University of Toronto
  • Mr. Moustafa Abdelebaky (2019 graduate) Master Program, CityU
2017-2018 Academic Year
  • Mr. KL HUI (2018 graduate) JP Morgan, HK
  • Ms. Claire JIN (2018 graduate) MSc in Columbia University, USA
  • Mr. Sunny CHAN (2018 graduate) Engineer in EasyLogic HK
2016-2017 Academic Year
  • Mr. Samson WONG (2017 graduate) Microsoft Hong Kong
2014-2015 Academic Year
  • Mr. Junjie LIU (2015 graduate) M.Phil, University of Hong Kong
  • Mr. Dhar DEBARUN (2015 graduate) CMU Master Graduate, Startup company in USA
2012-2013 Academic Year
  • Mr. Felix NG (2013 graduate) Graduate Trainee, Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas)
  • Mr. Gary CHIN (2013 graduate) ICT Graduate Trainee, PCCW Solutions Limited
2011-2012 Academic Year
  • Mr. Bobby TANG (2012 graduate) Software Engineer, Entone Technologies, Hong Kong (Towngas)
  • Mr. Kenny MEW (2012 graduate) Founder, MindLayer Hong Kong
2010-2011 Academic Year
  • Mr. Frankie NG (2011 graduate) Engineer in China Mobile Hong Kong
  • Mr. Barry LEE (2011 graduate) Project Executive in Green Tomato, Hong Kong
  • Mr. Qifan HU (2011 graduate) Software Engineer in LinkedIn, United States

Former International Exchange Visitors

We welcome international students to come and visit our group in Hong Kong. Please contact Dr. Ray for any openings.

Year 2023 Exchange Students
Miss. Rosalyn Chiu (Benenden School UK)Rosalyn Chiu is a student currently studying her A-Levels in Benenden School UK and has been part of Professor Ray’s team since August 2023. She is keen on learning more about engineering in general and is particularly interested in Mechanical and Aeronautical engineering and is looking forward to attending university in either the UK or Hong Kong.
Mr. Shuhan LEI (Max) (University of Toronto)JMr. Shuhan LEI is currently a BASc student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto, distinguished on the Dean’s Honour List. He is now doing a summer research internship focusing on RISC-V High-Level Synthesis and Architecture under the supervision of Prof. Ray C. C. Cheung at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include RISC-V processor design.
Miss. Theodora Kwok (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Freshman at Carnegie Mellon University studying Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • A former student member of the CityU GEF program
  • Currently interested in microelectronics and quantum computing, but keen to explore other fields of ECE
  • Joined in Dec 2023
Mr. Junhao HUANG (Joshua) (BNU-HKBU United International College)Joshua received his Bachelor and Master degrees from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2018, and 2021, respectively. He is a visiting PhD student from the BNU-HKBU United International College. His research interests include public-key cryptography, post-quantum cryptography and cryptographic engineering for IoT devices. Visiting CALAS from July 2023 to December 2023.
Year 2022 Exchange Students
Miss. Janice Ma (University of Cambridge)Janice is currently an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge majoring in Engineering and has been a part of Dr. Ray’s group since August 2022. She is keen on learning more and her interests include Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as Aerospace Engineering.
Mr. Ryan Lerner (University of Massachusetts Amherst)Ryan Lerner is a senior year student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who majors in Chinese American Mental Health. Currently working as a student educator, developing learning materials on digital literacy for K12 students and University students from different major disciplines.
Mr. Josiah WAN (University of Washington)Josiah Wan is an undergraduate senior student studying Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington (Seattle) in the United States. Interested in Embedded Computing System and FPGA. Joined Dr. Ray Cheung’s CALAS group since July 2022.
Year 2021 Exchange Students
Dr. Runbin Shi (University of Hong Kong)Dr. Runbin Shi received his BEng, MSc in Electronic Engineering in 2013 and 2016 at Soochow University. He obtained his PhD at the University of Hong Kong, December 2020. He joined Dr. Ray’s CALAS group in January 2021. His research interests cover: better abstraction of different application domains (e.g., machine learning, graph mining and tensor contraction); scalable domain-specific architecture and customized instruction set; compilation strategy for optimal workload scheduling.
Year 2020 Exchange Students
Mr. Man-Kit Sit (Imperial College London)Mr. Man-Kit Sit received his BEng in Computer Engineering in 2016 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He got his MSc in Information Technology in 2018 from Keio University, Japan. He is a Ph.D. student at Imperial College London, UK. He is also now a research assistant in the CALAS group since March 2020. His research interests include: Distributed Systems, Hardware Security, Hardware Acceleration
Miss. Wang Yaqi (Shandong University)She is a visiting student from Shandong University, majoring in Communication Engineering. She joined Dr. Ray’s CALAS group in April 2020 until Aug 2020. Her research interests include: Hardware implementation of the lightweight cipher, FPGA System designs and developments.
Visiting CALAS from April 2020 – ongoing, from Shangdong University, China
Year 2019 Exchange Students
Mr. Daniele Venier (Politecnico di Milano)Mr. Daniele Venier (2019) is an undergraduate student studying Computer Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy. He came to CityU as an exchange student during his 3rd year. Daniele has previously participated in international competitions in competitive programming and cybersecurity and worked at several companies as a developer. He approached Dr. Ray C. C. Cheung in order to do research in the field of cryptography.
Current research interests include post-quantum cryptography, cyptographic hardware implementation on FPGA
Visiting CALAS from Sept 2019 – Dec 2019, from Italy
Miss. Xiong Zhili (Wuhan University)Miss Xiong Zhili (2019), visiting student from Wuhan University, June 2019 – Aug 2019 – Working on Secure RISC-V Project.
Miss. Xinyi Huang (Wuhan University)Miss Xinyi Huang (2019), visiting student from Wuhan University, June 2019 – Aug 2019 – Working on Secure RISC-V Project.
Year 2018 Exchange Students
Miss. Wang Bishan (Wuhan University)Miss Wang Bishan (2018), visiting student from Wuhan University, Sept 2018 – Dec 2018 – Working on Deep learning AI FPGA Project.
Miss. Choi Ching Lam (Diocesan Girls’ School)Choi Ching Lam is a student at the Diocesan Girls’ School, keenly interested in Computer Vision and Scientific Computing. She is an open-source enthusiast with a deep appreciation for Julia and Python. Presently an intern at NVIDIA’s AI Tech Center, Ching Lam aspires to become a Machine Learning researcher.