Waqar Ahmed
PhD Student
PhD Fellow

Projects
Design & Development of an FPGA-based Multi-Scale Face Recognition System
Sep 2016 – Oct 2018, Project funded by National ICT R&D Fund, http://sp.gsse.pafkiet.edu.pk/Projects/RobustFaceRecognition
Logic-Intensive Reconfigurable Architectures and Supporting CAD Tools
Sep 2015 – Aug 2016, Project funded by Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia
Design & Development of Application-Specific FPGA/Reconfigurable Hardware Generator
Jan 2013 – Aug 2014, Project funded by National ICT R&D Fund, http://es.gsse.pafkiet.edu.pk/Projects/ERA
Selected Publications
A Multivariate Data Mining Approach to Predict Match Outcome in One-Day International Cricket
MS Thesis. http://gsse.pafkiet.edu.pk/sites/all//files/ThesisReports/2015_08_05_MS_WaqarAhmed.pdf
IIT Publications
- 2020
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Compact CNN Structure Learning by Knowledge Distillation
International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 8 -
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Is the performance of a cricket team really unpredictable? A case study on Pakistan team using machine learning
Indian Journal of Science and Technology - 2018
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Logic algebra for exploiting shared SRAM-table based FPGAs for large LUT inputs
2017 1st International Conference on Latest Trends in Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies, INTELLECT 2017, vol. 2018-January, pp. 1-4 - 2017
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Exploring shared SRAM tables among NPN equivalent large LUTs in SRAM-based FPGAs
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, FPT 2016, pp. 229-232 -
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Exploring Shared SRAM Tables in FPGAs for Larger LUTs and Higher Degree of Sharing
International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing, vol. 2017
Awards
Feb 2010 – Sep 2012, BE Distinguished Academic Performance, College`s Honor Badge & Scholarships
Jan 2013 – Jul 2015, MS Scholarship, 100% tuition fee waiver, Rewarded by National ICTRnD fund, Gold Medalist