I am currently a PhD candidate student in the Electronic and Computer Engineering department of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems, and a member of Vision and System Design Lab (VSDL) under the supervision of Prof. Kwang-Ting CHENG. If you are interested, here is my CV. In terms of my undergraduate study, I was at School of Microelectronics , Southern University of Science and Technology (南方科技大学深港微电子学院), advised by Fengwei An (安丰伟). I led a research project of SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) accelerator in Intelligent Sensing Laboratory.

I won the Shenzhen Longsys Electronics Company Award (Top 2% in School of Microelectronics), the First Prize of 2021 National College Students FPGA Innovation Design Competition (Top 22 in 1341 teams), and the First Prize of 2021 International Competition of Autonomous Running Robots (Top 1 of 34 teams in final match).

My research interest includes Hardware acceleration for VLSI-oriented algorithms, Software/hardware co-design AI accelerator, computer architecture & parallel computing, and SLAM. I have published one paper at the top international solid stage journal.

🔥 News

  • 2022.08:  🎉🎉 Our second paper of the SLAM accelerator project is accepted by Sensors!
  • 2022.08:  🎉🎉 Our first paper of the SLAM accelerator project (my first paper) is accepted by TCAS-II!
  • 2021.12:  🎉🎉 Our team won the first prize of 2021 National College Students FPGA Innovation Design Competition!
  • 2021.10:  🎉🎉 Our team won the first prize of 2021 International Competition of Autonomous Running Robots!

📝 Publications

A Reconfigurable Coprocessor for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Algorithms in FPGA

Yonghao Tan, Huanshihong Deng, Mengying Sun, Minghao Zhou, Yifei Chen, Lei Chen, Chao Wang, Fengwei An

A Reconfigurable Visual-Inertial Odometry Accelerator with High Area and Energy Efficiency for Autonomous Mobile Robots

Yonghao Tan, Mengying Sun, Huanshihong Deng, Haihan Wu, Minghao Zhou, Yifei Chen, Zhuo Yu, Qinghan Zeng, Ping Li, Lei Chen, Fengwei An

🎖 Honors and Awards

📖 Educations

  • 2023.09 - present, Doctor of Philosophy, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China.
  • 2019.09 - present, Undergraduate, Microelectronics, Experimental Class, School of Microelectronics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. GPA: 3.77.
  • 2016.09 - 2019.06, Shimen Middle School, Foshan, China.

📚 Research Projects

  • Transformer based co-design AI accelerator
    • Hardware/Software collaborative optimization of Transformer-based architecture for vision applications
    • Implement an energy-efficient Transformer-based accelerator for specific vision applications on the FPGA platform
  • ASIC design of SLAM accelerator in 28nm CMOS technology
    • Propose a reconfigurable coprocessor with an instruction set which support full functionality of operations in SLAM algorithms
    • Propose a reconfigurable visual-inertial odometry accelerator and implemented it on FPGA platform which can process data from image sensor and inertial measurement unit for trajectory output in real-time at 160MHz and 110fps
    • Optimize the hardware architecture and perform back-end design for ASIC development
  • ASIC design of stereo depth coprocessor in 28nm CMOS technology
    • In charge of back-end design of the Census Transform module of the coprocessor
  • Reconfigurable SLAM coprocessor
    • Investigate and co-optimize SLAM algorithms and its operations
    • Propose a reconfigurable coprocessor with an instruction set that supports full functionality of operations in SLAM algorithms