Ameer

Ameer M. S. Abdelhadi

Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering
Director, Hardware Accelerated Design and Integration (HADI) Lab

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
McMaster University

1280 Main St. West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1 Canada
Information Technology Building (ITB), Office: ITB-A322, Lab: ITB-A322

email:  ameer@mcmaster.ca
tel:  +1(905)525-9140 x 26008
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    Refereed Publications:

  1. M. Mansour, D. Djenouri, L. A. Said, S. Latif, A. Maalel, and A. M.S. Abdelhadi,
    "ARUC-GAN: A CycleGAN-Based Attention Residual U-Net for Low-Dose CT Denoising in Smart Healthcare,"
    in IEEE Access, April 2025.
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
  2. H. Taha and A. M.S. Abdelhadi,
    "HEPPO: Hardware-Efficient Proximal Policy Optimization - A Universal Pipelined Architecture for Generalized Advantage Estimation,"
    in Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT '24), December 2024.
    [Paper: PDF]
  3. E. T. Sannchez, M. Nikolic, K. Ibrahim, A. D. Lascorz, A. H. Zadeh, J. Wang,A. Abdelhadi, M. Mahmoud, C. Giannoula, and A. Moshovos,
    "Every Bit Matters: A Hardware/Software Approach for Enabling More Powerful Machine Learning Models,"
    to appear in the 2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ACSSC '24), Pacific Grove, CA, October 2024.
  4. M. Nikolic, E. T. Sanchez, J. Wang, A. H. Zadeh, M. Mahmoud, A. Abdelhadi, K. Ibrahim, A. Moshovos,
    "Schrodinger's FP Training Neural Networks with Dynamic Floating-Point Containers,"
    in Proceedings of the 2024 Seventh Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys-7 '24), Santa Clara, CA, April 2024.
    [Paper: PDF( 1, 2), DOI]
    [Supplemental: PDF]
    [Slides: PDF]
  5. E. Sha, A. Liu, K. Ibrahim, M. Mahmoud, C. Giannoula, A. Moshovos, A. Abdelhadi,
    "Marple: Towards 10K Channel Spike Sorting for Untethered Brain-Machine Interfacing,"
    in Proceedings of the 2024 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-29 '24), San Diego, CA, Apr 27 - May 1, 2024.
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Lightning Talk: YouTube]
    [Full Talk: YouTube]
  6. A. Lascorz, M. Mahmoud, A. H. Zadeh, M. Nikolic, C. Giannoula, A. Abdelhadi, A. Moshovos,
    "Atalanta: A Bit is Worth a "Thousand" Values,"
    in Proceedings of the 2024 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-29 '24), San Diego, CA, Apr 27 - May 1, 2024.
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Lightning Talk: YouTube]
  7. R. Gulve, N. Sarhangnejad, G. Dutta, M. Sakr, D. Nguyen, R. Rangel, W. Chen, Z. Xia, M. Wei, N. Gusev, E. Lin, X. Sun, L. Hanxu, N. Katic, A. Abdelhadi, A. Moshovos, K. Kutulakos, and R. Genov,
    "39000-Subexposures/s Dual-ADC CMOS Image Sensor with Dual-Tap Coded-Exposure Pixels for Single-Shot HDR and 3D Computational Imaging,"
    in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 3150-3163, Nov. 2023. (Date of Publication: 02 June 2023)
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
  8. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, E. Sha, and A. Moshovos,
    "A Massive-Scale Brain Activity Decoding Chip,"
    in Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Hot Chips Symposium (HCS '22), August 2022.
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Slides: PDF]
    [Chip (fabricated): NEOMA 1.0]
  9. R. Gulve, N. Sarhangnejad, G. Dutta, M. Sakr, D. Nguyen, R. Rangel, W. Chen, Z. Xia, M. Wei, N. Gusev, E. Lin, X. Sun, L. Hanxu, N. Katic, A. Abdelhadi, A. Moshovos, K. Kutulakos, and R. Genov,
    "A 39,000 Subexposures/s CMOS Image Sensor with Dual-tap Coded-exposure Data-memory Pixel for Adaptive Single-shot Computational Imaging,"
    in Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits, June 2022.
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
  10. A. Hadi Zadeh, M. Mahmoud, A. M.S. Abdelhadi, and A. Moshovos,
    "Mokey: Enabling Narrow Fixed-Point Inference for Out-of-the-Box Floating-Point Transformer Models,"
    in Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE 49th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-49 '22), June 2022.
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Talk: PDF]
  11. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, E. Sha, C. Bannon, M. Mahmoud, H. Steenland, and A. Moshovos,
    "Noema: Hardware-Efficient Template Matching for Neural Population Pattern Detection,"
    in Proceedings of the 2021 54th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-54 '21), October 2021.
    [Paper: PDF, HTML5, DOI]
    [Talk: PDF]
    [Chip (fabricated): NEOMA 1.0]
  12. A. M.S. Abdelhadi and H. Li,
    "Enabling Mixed-Timing NoCs for FPGAs: Reconfigurable Synthesizable Synchronization FIFOs,"
    in Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL '21), August 2021.
    [Paper: PDF]
  13. H. Li, A. M.S. Abdelhadi, R. Shi, J. Zhang, and Q. Liu,
    "Adversarial Hardware with Functional and Topological Camouflage,"
    in Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '21), May 2021.
    [Talk: Stream]
    [Slides: PDF]
    [Paper: PDF]
  14. A. M.S. Abdelhadi and H. Li,
    "Reconfigurable Synthesizable Synchronization FIFOs,"
    in Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM '2021), May 2021.
  15. I. E. Vivancos, S. Sharify, D. Ly-Ma, A. M.S. Abdelhadi, C. Bannon, M. Nikolic, M. Mahmoud, A. D. Lascorz, G. Pekhimenko, and A. Moshovos,
    "Boveda: Building an On-Chip Deep Learning Memory Hierarchy Brick by Brick,"
    in Proceedings of the 2021 conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys '21), April 2021.
    [Paper: PDF]
    [Talk: Stream]
  16. H. Li, A. M.S. Abdelhadi, R. Shi, J. Zhang, and Q. Liu,
    "Adversarial Hardware with Functional and Topological Camouflage,"
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 1685-1689, May 2021.
    [Talk: Stream]
    [Slides: PDF]
    [Paper: PDF]
  17. A. M.S. Abdelhadi,
    "Synthesizable Synchronization FIFOs Utilizing the Asynchronous Pulse-Based Handshake Protocol,"
    in Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS '20), October 2020.
    [Paper: PDF]
  18. A. M.S. Abdelhadi,
    "High-Throughput Synthesizable Synchronization FIFOs for Mixed-Timing NoCs,"
    in Proceedings of the 53rd 2020 Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-53 '2020): 13th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures (NoCArc '2020), October 2020.
  19. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, C. S. Bouganis, and G. A. Constantinides,
    "Accelerated Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search Through Hierarchical Product Quantization,"
    in Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT '19), December 2019.
    [Paper: PDF]
    [Talk: PDF, PPT]
    [Code: GitHub]
  20. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, and L. Shannon,
    "Revisiting Deep Learning Parallelism: Fine-Grained Inference Engine Utilizing Online Arithmetic,"
    in Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT '19), December 2019.
    [Paper: PDF]
    [Code: GitHub]
  21. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, Y. Zhang, D. Chen, G. Datta, P. Beerel, and M.R. Greenstreet
    "Two-Phase Asynchronous to Synchronous Interfaces with Early Synchronization for an Open-Source Bundled Data Flow,"
    in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC '19), May 2019.
    [Paper: PDF]
  22. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, G. G.F. Lemieux, and L. Shannon,
    "Modular Block-RAM-Based Longest-Prefix Match Ternary Content-Addressable Memories,"
    in Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL '18), August 2018.
    [Acceptance rate: 36/219=16.4%]
    [Paper: PDF]
    [Talk: PDF, PPT]
    [Code: GitHub]
  23. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, D. H. Noronha, S. J.E. Wilton, and L. Shannon,
    "Deep Neural Networks Benchmark Suite for FPGAs Utilizing a TensorFlow to Routing High-Level Synthesis ,"
    in Proceedings of the 2018 Computing Hardware for Emerging Intelligent Sensory Applications (COHESA '18), Toronto, Ontario, July 2018.
    [Paper: PDF, VSD]
  24. A. M.S. Abdelhadi and M. R. Greenstreet,
    "Interleaved Architectures for High-Throughput Synthesizable Synchronization FIFOs,"
    in Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC '17), May 2017. (Best paper award winner)
    [Acceptance rate: 15/44=34%]
    [Paper: PDF]
    [Talk: PDF]
    [Code: GitHub]
  25. A. M.S. Abdelhadi and G. G.F. Lemieux,
    "A Multi-Ported Memory Compiler Utilizing True Dual-port BRAMs,"
    in Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM '16), May 2016. (Best paper candidate)
    [Acceptance rate: 18/93=19%]
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Talk: PDF, PPT]
    [Code: GitHub]
  26. A. M.S. Abdelhadi and G. G.F. Lemieux,
    "Modular Switched Multi-ported SRAM-based Memories,"
    ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) Special Issue on Reconfigurable Components with Source Code, accepted in Jul. 2015. 27 pages. (Invited)
    [Paper: PDF]
    [Code: GitHub]
  27. A. M.S. Abdelhadi and G. G.F. Lemieux,
    "Modular SRAM-based Binary Content-Addressable Memories,"
    in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM '15), May 2015.
    [Acceptance rate: 21/95=22%]
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Talk: PDF, PPT]
    [Code: GitHub]
  28. A. M.S. Abdelhadi and G. G.F. Lemieux,
    "Deep and Narrow Binary Content-Addressable Memories using FPGA-based BRAMs,"
    in Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT '14), December 2014.
    [Acceptance rate: 23/80=29%]
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Code: GitHub]
  29. A. M.S. Abdelhadi and G. G.F. Lemieux,
    "Modular Multi-Ported SRAM-based Memories,"
    in Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA '14), February 2014. (Best paper candidate)
    [Acceptance rate: 21/114=18%]
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Talk: PDF, PPT]
    [Code: GitHub]
  30. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, R. Ginosar, A. Kolodny, and E. G. Friedman,
    "Timing-Driven Variation-Aware Synthesis of Hybrid Mesh/Tree Clock Distribution Networks,"
    INTEGRATION, the VLSI journal (2013).
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Code: GitHub]
  31. A. Brant, A. M.S. Abdelhadi, A. Severance, T. Tang, M. Yue, and G. G.F. Lemieux,
    "Safe Overclocking of Tightly Coupled CGRAs and Processor Arrays using Razor,"
    in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE intl. Conf. on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM '13), April 2013.
    [Acceptance rate: 19/110=17%]
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Talk: PDF, PPT]
    [Code: GitHub]
  32. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, T. Ono, B. Quinton, and M. R. Greenstreet,
    "Cell-based Modular mixed-timing Synchronizing FIFOs,"
    in Proceeding of the IEEE/ACM 2012 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD '12): Workshop on CAD for Multi-Synchronous and Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, San Jose, CA, November 2012.
    [Paper: PDF]
    [Code: GitHub]
  33. A. Brant, A. M.S. Abdelhadi, A. Severance, and G. G.F. Lemieux,
    "Pipeline frequency boosting: Hiding dual-ported block RAM latency using intentional clock skew,"
    in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT '12), December 2012.
    [Acceptance rate: 24/114=21%]
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Code: GitHub]
  34. A. M.S. Abdelhadi and G. G.F. Lemieux,
    "Configuration Bitstream Reduction for SRAM-based FPGAs by Enumerating LUT Input Permutations,"
    in Proceedings of the International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (Reconfig '11), pp. 20-26, Dec. 2011.
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Talk: PDF, PPT]
    [Code: GitHub]
  35. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, R. Ginosar, A. Kolodny, and E. G. Friedman,
    "Synthesis of Variation-Aware Hybrid Clock Distribution Networks,"
    in Proceedings of ChipEx '10, June 2010.
    [Paper: PDF]
  36. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, R. Ginosar, A. Kolodny, and E. G. Friedman,
    "Timing-Driven Variation-Aware Nonuniform Clock Mesh Synthesis,"
    in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI '10), pp. 15-20, May 2010.
    [Acceptance rate: 50/165=30%]
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
    [Talk: PDF, PPT]
    [Code: GitHub]

    37. Patents:

  37. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, E. C. H. Sha, A. Moshovos, and A. W. Liu,
    "SCALABLE SPIKE SORTING USING TEMPLATE MATCHING OR MACHINE LEARNING FOR UNTETHERED BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACING,"
    US Patent,
    Provisional Application No.: 10004596,
    Filing Date: April 24, 2024.
  38. A. M.S. Abdelhadi, H. Steenland, A. Moshovos, and C. Bannon,
    "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEMPLATE MATCHING FOR NEURAL POPULATION PATTERN DETECTION,"
    US Patent,
    Publication No.: US2023/0070243 A1,
    Publication Date: March 9, 2023.
    Provisional Application No.: 63/230,333,
    Filing Date: August 6, 2021.
    US Patent Application Number US2023/0070243 A1,
    [Publication: PDF, HTML]

    39. Preprints:

  39. Hazim Taha and A. M.S. Abdelhadi,,
    "HEPPO: Hardware-Efficient Proximal Policy Optimization - A Universal Pipelined Architecture for Generalized Advantage Estimation,"
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.12703 (2025).
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
  40. M. Nikolić, E. T. Sanchez, J. Wang, A. H. Zadeh, M. Mahmoud, A. Abdelhadi, and A. Moshovos.,
    "Schrödinger's FP: Dynamic Adaptation of Floating-Point Containers for Deep Learning Training,"
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13666 (2022).
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]
  41. A. H. Zadeh, M. Mahmoud, A. Abdelhadi, and A. Moshovos.,
    "Mokey: Enabling Narrow Fixed-Point Inference for Out-of-the-Box Floating-Point Transformer Models,"
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.12758 (2022).
    [Paper: PDF, DOI]

    42. Dissertations and Theses:

  42. A. M.S. Abdelhadi,
    "Architecture of Block-RAM-Based Massively Parallel Memory Structures: Multi-Ported Memories and Content-Addressable Memories,"
    Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, September 2016.
    [Thesis: PDF, URI]

    43. Students' Dissertations and Theses:

  43. Hazim Taha,
    "HEPPO: Hardware-Efficient Proximal Policy Optimization. A Universal Pipelined Architecture for Generalized Advantage Estimation,"
    M.A.Sc. Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, December 2024.
    [Thesis: PDF, URI]

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