Rate My Professor Philip Heng Wai Leong

Professor Philip Heng Wai Leong is Professor of Computer Systems in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Sydney. He received his B.Sc., B.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Sydney. In 1993, he worked as a consultant for ST Microelectronics in Milan, Italy, focusing on advanced flash memory-based integrated circuit design. From 1997 to 2009, he held a position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Currently, he serves as Chief Technology Advisor to Cluster Technology, Chief Technology Officer at CruxML Pty Ltd, and Chief Executive Officer at TernaryNet. As Director of the Computer Engineering Laboratory, his research addresses novel hardware and software solutions across various domains.

Professor Leong's research specializations encompass microelectronics, digital processor architectures, digital electronic devices, electrical engineering, industrial electronics, electronics, sensors and digital hardware, photovoltaic power systems, and machine learning, with emphasis on FPGA architectures and applications, signal processing, and machine learning. He is the co-founder and program co-chair of the International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT) and served as program co-chair for the International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL). He holds the position of Senior Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems. He has authored over 200 technical papers and holds 4 patents. His major awards include the 2005 FPT Best Paper Award, the 2007 FPL Stamatis Vassiliadis Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2008 FPL Stamatis Vassiliadis Outstanding Paper Award. Professor Leong is a member of the Charles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney Net Zero Institute, and the University of Sydney Nano Institute.