Hayden So 蘇國希

  • Innovation Award in 2013 at University of Hong Kong
Dr Hayden So joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong in Aug, 2007.  He is currently an Associate Professor and Program Co-director of the computer engineering program at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He leads the research at the computer architecture and system research (CASR) group at HKU.  He is also the current co-director and founding member of the Joint Lab on Future Cities (JLFC) at the University of Hong Kong.

He was the recipient of the Test-of-Time award from the International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS) in 2021 and the Croucher Innovation Award, in 2013.  In 2021, was awarded the IEEE-HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award.  He was also awarded the University Outstanding Teaching Award (Team), in 2012, and the Faculty Best Teacher Award, in 2011.

His research focuses on the hardware and software design for FPGA-based reconfigurable computer systems, with applications in AI, machine learning, neuromorphic vision processing and medical imaging and analytics.