Associate Professor Philip Heng Wai Leong
School of Electrical & Information Engineering
Director, Computer Engineering Laboratory.
J03 - Electrical Engineering Building
The University of Sydney
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Research interests
"As an engineer, I love to create new things. Much of my work involves developing solutions to problems constrained by processing speed or power consumption. I often use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs - a type of computer circuit that can be customised after manufacture) as my 'canvas', as they enable the development of problem-specific architectures that are orders of magnitude more efficient than microprocessor-based solutions.
"Among the applications I've pioneered have been FPGA-based financial derivative pricing systems. A number of banks have since developed their own implementations based on these systems, and have found that they offer much lower power consumption than competing technologies.
"Another of my projects focused on developing parallel software for forecasting rainfall distribution. In Hong Kong, during a heavy rain or typhoon warning, all schools and businesses are closed for safety reasons. The forecasting software my team and I developed has made more accurate rain predictions possible, and now supports the issuance of heavy rain warnings in Hong Kong.
"A current project involves at-home monitoring of people with Parkinson's disease and developing mathematical models of their gait. The aim of this work is to enhance our understanding of Parkinson's disease and improve the quality of life of people living with this condition.
"The overall goal of my research is to benefit society through improved high-performance custom hardware and parallel software.
"I've been working in this field since 1993 when I completed my PhD at the University of Sydney, where I also earlier gained a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering. The University has always been central to my academic career, and has favourably influenced all aspects of my research."
Teaching and supervision
ELEC2602 - Digital Logic
ELEC3607 - Embedded Systems
ELEC3608 - Computer Architecture
ELEC5616 - Computer and Network Security
ELEC5710 - Foundations of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
ELEC5722 - Foundations of Digital Systems Design
ELEC5741 - Foundations of Embedded Computing
Selected grants
2011
- A Cloud Computing Environment for Managing Foreign Exchange Risk; Leong P; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
- LNK: 2011/Round2/ARC LP110200413, A cloud computing environment for managing foreign exchange risk (; Miszczak E, Leong P; Westpac Banking Corporation/Project Support.
Selected publications
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PhD and master's project opportunities
- Mapping 2D Images to 3D Shape
- New technique for studying human brain activity
- Next Generation Audio Coding
- Spherical multi-modal scene analysis
- Statistical models of ear shape and ear acoustics
- Medical diagnostics for neonates in the developing world
- Electrical Impedance Tomography for stroke, biophysical monitoring and medical device design
- Impedance tomography for cardiac imaging: high speed tomography
- Novel Electrodes for rapid electrophysiological recording
- Binaural signal processing algorithms for hearing aids
- other research opportunities available at Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies
- FPGA-based Low Latency Trading
- Floating Point FPGA Architectures
- Placement-aware Hardware Description Languages
- Scalable vision machines
- Modelling Parkinson's disease using control models


