{"671138":{"#nid":"671138","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Stefan Abi-Karam Receives Esteemed FPL Community Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStefan Abi-Karam, a member of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and a Ph.D student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been honored with the prestigious FPL Community Award at the 33rd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2023) in Gothenburg, Sweden.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbi-Karam, a Research Engineer I in CIPHER, was recognized for his paper titled \u0022GNNBuilder: An Automated Framework for Generic Graph Neural Network Accelerator Generation, Simulation, and Optimization.\u0022 The paper explores the intersection of hardware acceleration and applied deep learning, and delves into areas such as electronic design automation (EDA), FPGA architecture, and VLSI algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe FPL Community Award recognizes significant research contributions within the field-programmable logic community. It is awarded based on the impact and potential long-term benefits of open-source research, as assessed by peer reviewers during the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESaid Stefan, \u0022I am really happy that there is community recognition for open-source academic hardware research, as this is still not the norm, or the open-source aspect is not seen as valuable in many academic research projects.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbi-Karam\u0027s work, conducted in collaboration with Prof. Cong Hao of Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), stands out for its focus on the pragmatic aspects of engineering, automation, and co-design of high-level-synthesis-based hardware accelerators for computing graph neural networks. Stefan also received his bachelor\u0027s degree from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStefan\u2019s research has potential applications in various fields, including high-energy physics, where the deployment of graph neural networks in hardware.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbi-Karam\u0027s dedication to his research and his success in blending his Ph.D. studies with his work at GTRI exemplify GTRI\u2019s Mission\u0027s aims of \u003Cstrong\u003EEducating Future Technology Leaders \u003C\/strong\u003Eand being a \u003Cstrong\u003E\u201cPeople-First\u201d\u003C\/strong\u003E environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis award not only recognizes Abi-Karam\u0027s individual excellence but also underscores GTRI\u2019s and Georgia Tech\u0027s role as leaders in the field of cybersecurity and electrical and computer engineering research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The award itself was very unexpected since this was my first time at the FPL conference!\u0022 said Stefan excitedly and humbly. \u0022It was also the first time I got to meet and talk to many of the other professors and students for the first time who also work in my research area as well as other areas that overlap with my work at GTRI.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations, Stefan!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStefan Abi-Karam, a member of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and a Ph.D student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been honored with the prestigious FPL Community Award at the 33rd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2023) in Gothenburg, Sweden. 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