D-Index & Metrics Best Publications
Electronics and Electrical Engineering
UK
2023
Computer Science
UK
2023

D-Index & Metrics D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines.

Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Electronics and Electrical Engineering D-index 57 Citations 9,868 454 World Ranking 1207 National Ranking 60
Computer Science D-index 64 Citations 13,883 692 World Ranking 1649 National Ranking 98

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United Kingdom Leader Award

2012 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Operating system
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Programming language

His primary areas of investigation include Field-programmable gate array, Embedded system, Parallel computing, Reconfigurable computing and Computer hardware. Wayne Luk has included themes like Logic synthesis, Software, Speedup and Computer architecture in his Field-programmable gate array study. His Embedded system research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Energy consumption, Compiler and Control reconfiguration.

His Parallel computing study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Floating point, Algorithm design, Spiking neural network and Graphics. His Reconfigurable computing research includes themes of Coprocessor, Computer engineering, Software engineering and Programming paradigm. The various areas that Wayne Luk examines in his Computer hardware study include Decoding methods, Low-density parity-check code, Unit in the last place and Gaussian noise.

His most cited work include:

  • Reconfigurable computing: architectures and design methods (318 citations)
  • Accuracy-Guaranteed Bit-Width Optimization (188 citations)
  • Pipeline vectorization (158 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Wayne Luk mainly focuses on Field-programmable gate array, Parallel computing, Embedded system, Computer architecture and Reconfigurable computing. His Field-programmable gate array study deals with Computer engineering intersecting with Convolutional neural network. His studies deal with areas such as Floating point and Computation as well as Parallel computing.

His research in Embedded system intersects with topics in Compiler and Benchmark. His Computer architecture study incorporates themes from Hardware architecture and Design space exploration. Wayne Luk is involved in the study of Software that focuses on Hardware acceleration in particular.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Field-programmable gate array (55.83%)
  • Parallel computing (26.91%)
  • Embedded system (23.74%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Field-programmable gate array (55.83%)
  • Convolutional neural network (4.46%)
  • Computer engineering (8.63%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of study are Field-programmable gate array, Convolutional neural network, Computer engineering, Artificial intelligence and Speedup. Wayne Luk is studying Reconfigurable computing, which is a component of Field-programmable gate array. His Convolutional neural network study combines topics in areas such as Inference, Quantization, Support vector machine, Hardware acceleration and Convolution.

Wayne Luk interconnects Process, Computation, Efficient energy use and Performance prediction in the investigation of issues within Computer engineering. His Speedup research includes elements of Algorithm, Algorithm design, Stream processing and Porting. His research investigates the connection between Computer hardware and topics such as Overhead that intersect with problems in Embedded system.

Between 2016 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Deep Neural Network Approximation for Custom Hardware: Where We've Been, Where We're Going (58 citations)
  • Optimizing CNN-Based Object Detection Algorithms on Embedded FPGA Platforms (36 citations)
  • Leveraging FPGAs for Accelerating Short Read Alignment (32 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Operating system
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Programming language

Wayne Luk mainly investigates Field-programmable gate array, Convolutional neural network, Computer engineering, Parallel computing and Artificial intelligence. He has researched Field-programmable gate array in several fields, including Artificial neural network, Computer architecture and Hardware architecture. His study on Convolutional neural network also encompasses disciplines like

  • Frame rate which is related to area like Pruning and Block,
  • Quantization which is related to area like Computer hardware, JPEG, Virtex, Data transmission and Cloud computing,
  • Object detection, which have a strong connection to Software implementation, Algorithm, Workstation and Network architecture,
  • Computation which connect with Robotics, Jacobian matrix and determinant, Robot kinematics and Robot,
  • Feature extraction which is related to area like Design space exploration, Computational science, Computational resource and Layer.

Wayne Luk has included themes like Software performance testing, Kernel and Speedup in his Computer engineering study. His work in the fields of Parallel computing, such as Dataflow, intersects with other areas such as Bitonic sorter. His research integrates issues of Machine learning and Bottleneck in his study of Artificial intelligence.

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Best Publications

Reconfigurable computing: architectures and design methods

T.J. Todman;G.A. Constantinides;S.J.E. Wilton;O. Mencer.
IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques (2005)

574 Citations

Gaussian random number generators

David B. Thomas;Wayne Luk;Philip H.W. Leong;John D. Villasenor.
ACM Computing Surveys (2007)

284 Citations

Accuracy-Guaranteed Bit-Width Optimization

D.-U. Lee;A.A. Gaffar;R.C.C. Cheung;O. Mencer.
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (2006)

264 Citations

Pipeline vectorization

M. Weinhardt;W. Luk.
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (2001)

253 Citations

A comparison of CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and massively parallel processor arrays for random number generation

David Barrie Thomas;Lee Howes;Wayne Luk.
field programmable gate arrays (2009)

232 Citations

Axel: a heterogeneous cluster with FPGAs and GPUs

Kuen Hung Tsoi;Wayne Luk.
field programmable gate arrays (2010)

228 Citations

Flexible instruction processor systems and methods

Wayne Luk;Peter Y. K. Cheung;Shay Ping Seng.
(2001)

205 Citations

Comparing Three Heuristic Search Methods for Functional Partitioning in Hardware–Software Codesign

Theerayod Wiangtong;Peter Y. Cheung;Wayne Luk.
Design Automation for Embedded Systems (2002)

205 Citations

A hardware Gaussian noise generator using the Box-Muller method and its error analysis

D.-U. Lee;J.D. Villasenor;W. Luk;P.H.W. Leong.
IEEE Transactions on Computers (2006)

205 Citations

Wordlength optimization for linear digital signal processing

G.A. Constantinides;P.Y.K. Cheung;W. Luk.
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (2003)

197 Citations

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