Students at the University of Aizu won the 1st Runner-Up and Kyushu Keisokki Co., Ltd. Award at the 29th LSI Design Contest 2026
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At the 29th LSI Design Contest 2026 （※1）held in Okinawa, Japan, on March 6, 2026, a student team from the Advanced Computing Systems Laboratory （※2）supervised by Assoc. Prof. DANG Nam Khanh （※3） at the University of Aizu participated.
The LSI Design Contest is an international competition that brings together student teams from universities around the world to present innovative VLSI, FPGA, and system design projects. This year, the design challenge is "Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)".
A total of 77 participants (26 teams) from Japan and overseas applied to the competition. After a competitive screening process, 11 teams were selected and invited to present their work on-site in Okinawa on March 6, 2026.
The University of Aizu team members include Hanyu Yuga (1st-year Master's student), Atharv Sharma (1st-year Master's student), and Komatsuzaki Aruki (3rd-year Undergraduate student). The University of Aizu team presented their design entitled "SpikeGAN: An Energy-Efficient Spiking Generative Adversarial Network Design". This newly designed GAN uses a bio-inspired spiking architecture to improve energy efficiency.
The final ranking
Winner:
Chiba University
Runners-up:
Bandung Institute of Technology
University of Aizu
Kyushu Institute of Technology
※1 29th LSI Design Contest 2026
※2 Advanced Computing Systems Laboratory