Wayne Luk
Regular biography
Wayne Luk is a Professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. His research focuses on hardware and architecture, reconfigurable computing, and design automation. He leads the Programming Languages and Systems Section and the Custom Computing Research Group, and directs the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in High Performance Embedded and Distributed Systems. His work involves reconfigurable devices such as field-programmable gate arrays, with applications in high-performance financial computing and embedded biomedical systems. He has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE, and the BCS.
Scholar-generated biography
Wayne Luk is a Professor of Computer Engineering at Imperial College London, specializing in Hardware and Architectutre, Reconfigurable Computing, and Design Automation. His research focuses on developing efficient architectures and design methods for reconfigurable computing systems, including FPGA-based implementations for neural networks and random number generation. He has contributed to the optimization of bit-width and wordlength in digital signal processing, as well as the design of heterogeneous computing clusters integrating FPGAs and GPUs. His work emphasizes performance, accuracy, and energy efficiency in hardware-software codesign and dynamic voltage scaling for reconfigurable systems.