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The Centre for Advanced Learning and Academic Studies (CALAS) proudly congratulates Dr. Lucas on the outstanding success of his PhD viva voce! Facing a distinguished panel of eight professors, Lucas defended his research with exceptional rigor, marking his formal transition to CALAS’s 20th doctoral graduate.

What an incredible day for our CityUHK EE EdgeAIoTM Gifted Programme students!

We are thrilled to announce that Alice has won the 2nd Prize (HK$20,000) in the Final Year Project Competition 2024-25 from the College of Engineering!

We are thrilled to congratulate Henry, Jerry, and Leo for their outstanding achievement! Their work “CAHLS: A Source-to-Source Compiler to Generate Cycle Accurate Models for High-Level Synthesis” has been accepted for oral presentation as Work-in-Progress at CODES+ISSS 2025 in Taiwan this September.

We are delighted to celebrate Ashraf’s outstanding achievement with the acceptance of his paper “IncTSVD: Incremental Tensor Singular Value Decomposition of Multidimensional Streaming Data” in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

We are excited to welcome Peter from the University of Toronto who will be joining our CALAS lab as a summer intern for the next 9 weeks!

We are pleased to announce that Dr. M. A. A. Abdelgawad, along with co-inventors H. Yan, C. C. R. Cheung, and Q. Zheng, has successfully received patent approval from the United States Patent Office for their groundbreaking work titled “System and method for fast processing singular value decomposition (SVD) of extremely large-scale low-rank matrices” (Patent No. US 2025/0139198 A1).

We are delighted to welcome back Dr. Irfan to our CALAS team in his new role as a Postdoctoral Researcher!

Heartfelt congratulations to Ashraf on the acceptance of his paper “Efficient CUR Decomposition for Interpretable Low-rank Approximations and Imaging Applications” in Neurocomputing!

We are delighted to welcome Mang and Simon from Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI) who will be joining our CALAS lab next month.