Awards, collaborations, milestones, and updates from the Laboratory for Emerging Computing Systems.
Masoud Rahimi and Prof. Sébastien Le Beux have had their paper "A ReRAM-Based Accelerator with Unified Sparse Graph Representation" accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC). The work is now available on IEEE Xplore Early Access.
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Masoud Rahimi and Prof. Sébastien Le Beux received the First Place Best Paper Award at the 24th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference in Chicoutimi, Québec (June 21–24, 2026), for their paper "Graph Canonization for Efficient Pattern Reuse in ReRAM-Based Graph Accelerators".
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Our group presents three works at the IEEE NEWCAS 2026 conference in Chicoutimi, Québec (June 21–24, 2026): Jean-Baptiste Waring and Milad Eslaminia present their respective works on quantum computing, and Masoud Rahimi presents his work on graph accelerators.
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Ismael Barzani and team Qortex won first place in the Quantum Machine Learning track at the Mil'HaQ Fest 2025 hackathon, hosted by Mila — Quebec AI Institute, applying variational quantum algorithms and parametrized circuits to options-pricing forecasting.
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