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Grants & Awards

Grants

  1. "Energy-Efficient Hybrid Memory based Architecture for Next-Generation AI Systems", Principal Investigator, funded by MEXT Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) KAKENHI, 2026-2028. (Co-I: Daisuke Suzuki, Abderazek Ben Abdallah, Zhishang Wang).
  2. "Research and Development in Neuromorphic AI for an Anthropomorphic Android to Achieve a Human-centered AI Society", Principal Investigator, funded by Competitive Research Funding, No. P19-2025 (2025-). (Co-I: Abderazek Ben Abdallah, Daisuke Suzuki, Zhishang Wang).
  3. "Combination of Approximate Computing and Approximate Stacking Memory for Low-Power Neuromorphic Computing", Principal Investigator, funded by Competitive Research Funding, No. P24-2024 (2024-2025). (Co-I: Abderazek Ben Abdallah).
  4. "Low-Power Spiking Neural Network Solution for IoT and Edge Devices", Principal Investigator, funded by Competitive Research Funding, No. P26-2023 (2023-2024). (Co-I: Abderazek Ben Abdallah).
  5. "Hotspot-Aware Fault-Tolerant Architectures and Algorithms for TSV-Based 3D Network-on-Chips", Principal Investigator, funded by National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED), No. 102.01-2018.312 (2019-2021). (Co-I: Prof. Xuan-Tu Tran, Kiem-Hung Nguyen, Duy-Hieu Bui).
  6. "Soft Error Resilient Architecture and Algorithm for Network-on-Chip", Principal Investigator, funded by VNU University of Engineering and Technology (VNU-UET), No. CN18.10 (2018-2019).
  7. "Development of IoT Dual-Band Transmitters for Agriculture (IOTA)", Core Member, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (World Bank Project) (2018-2019). (PI: Prof. Xuan-Tu Tran).
  8. "Reconfiguration Solutions in Network-on-Chip Architectures", Core Member, funded by NAFOSTED, No. 102.01-2013.17 (2014-2016). (PI: Prof. Xuan-Tu Tran).
  9. "Investigation, Design, and Implementation of a Video Encoder for Next-Generation Multimedia Equipment", Core Member, funded by Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), No. QGĐA.10.02 (2010-2013). (PI: Prof. Xuan-Tu Tran).

Awards

  1. Second Prize in the Vietnamese Nhan Tai Dat Viet Award 2015. Awarded for our VENGME H.264/AVC encoding chip, for which I was part of the design team.
  2. Best Student Paper Award at the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet 2021) for the paper:
    • Ogbodo Mark Ikechukwu, Khanh N. Dang, and Abderazek Ben. Abdallah, "Energy-Efficient Spike-Based Scalable Architecture for Next-Generation Cognitive AI Computing Systems".
  3. Best Paper Award at the 2023 IEEE 6th International Conference on Electronics Technology (ICET) for the paper:
    • Jiangkun Wang, Khanh N. Dang, and Abderazek Ben Abdallah, "Scaling Deep-Learning Pneumonia Detection Inference on a Reconfigurable Self-Contained Hardware Platform".

Students' Awards

  • 2019: First prize at the SEACAS (Southeast Asia Circuit and System Society Workshop) 2019 Hackathon: DANG Hai Ninh (Undergraduate 4th year student), NGUYEN Duc Kien (Undergraduate 3rd year student).
  • 2024: University of Aizu's Award of Excellence: NGUYEN Ngo Doanh (Master 2nd year student).
  • 2024: University of Aizu's Award of Excellence: KOBAYASHI Ryoji (Undergraduate 4th year student).
  • 2025: Best presentation at UoA postgraduate forum: Satvik GANESH (Undergraduate 4th year student).
  • 2026: 1st Runner-Up and Kyushu Keisokki Co., Ltd. Award the 29th LSI Design Contest 2026: Hanyu Yuga (1st-year Master's student), Atharv Sharma (1st-year Master's student), and Komatsuzaki Aruki (3rd-year Undergraduate student) (University News: URL)