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  • [Sep 2026]
    • Chengrui Yu, Jingyun Bi, and Guanyu Lu joined CANLab as Ph.D. students. Welcome aboard!
    • Our collaborative paper “Memristive singular value decomposition” has been published in Nature Communications.
    • Our associative-memory research with Hewlett Packard Labs was featured in Ta Kung Pao, Education Online (教育線上) and Sing Tao Headline.
  • [Aug 2026]
    • Prof. Can Li discussed Hong Kong chip research on TVB’s A Closer Look (時事多面睇), broadcast on 24 August. Watch the broadcast.
    • Our analog in-memory search research was featured in Ta Kung Pao, Wen Wei Po, and unwire.hk.
  • [Jul 2026]
    • Can Li was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in HKU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
  • [Jun 2026]
    • Our paper “Fault-free analogue computing with imperfect hardware” has been published by Nature Electronics! Congratulations to Zhicheng, Jiawei and all!
  • [Apr 2026]
    • Our paper “Trustworthy tree-based machine learning by MoS2 flash-based analog content-addressable memory with inherent soft boundaries” has been published by Nature Communications! Congratulations to Bo, Guoyun and all!
  • [Feb 2026]
    • Our paper “A hardware-adaptive learning algorithm for superlinear-capacity associative memory on memristor crossbars” has been published by Nature Communications! Congratulations to Chengping and all!
  • [Dec 2025]
    • Our paper “Sb-contacted MoS2 flash memory for analogue in-memory searches” has been published by Nature Nanotechnology! Congratulations to Guoyun, Bo and all!
    • Our paper “Monolithic 3D Integration of MoS2 eDRAM and RRAM for Analog In-Memory Attention Computing” was presented at IEEE IEDM 2025! Congratulations to Rui, Guoyun and all!
    • Mr. Jinquan Shi joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [Nov 2025]
    • Our paper “Memristor-based adaptive analog-to-digital conversion for efficient and accurate compute-in-memory” has been published by Nature Communications! Congratulations to Haiqiao and all!
  • [Sep 2025]
    • Our paper “Real-time raw signal genomic analysis using fully integrated memristor hardware” has been published by Nature Computational Science! Congratulations to Peiyi and all!
  • [Jan 2025]
    • Our paper “Efficient Nonlinear Function Approximation in Analog Resistive Crossbars for Recurrent Neural Networks” has been published by Nature Communications! Congratulations to Junyi, Ruibin and all!
    • Mr. Shengbo Wang joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [Dec 2024]
    • Our paper “One-Step Combinatorial Optimization Solver with Fully Integrated Analog Memristors and Annealing Module” was presented at IEEE IEDM 2024! Congratulations to Keyi, Mingrui and all!
  • [Nov 2024]
    • Mr. Bofan Yang joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [September 2024]
    • Mr. Yunwei Tong, Miss. Jiajun Gao, Mr. Yuhang Xu and Miss Rui Qiu joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [Feb 2024]
    • Our paper “Programming memristor arrays with arbitrarily high precision for analog computing” has been published by Science! Congratulations to the team!
  • [November 2023]
    • Our paper “Widefield Diamond Quantum Sensing with Neuromorphic Vision Sensors” has just published online by Advanced Science! Congratulations to Zhiyuan and all!
  • [September 2023]
    • Our paper “Efficient combinatorial optimization by quantum-inspired parallel annealing in analogue memristor crossbar” has just published online by Nature Commumications! Congratulations to Mingrui and all!
  • [Auguest 2023]
    • Mr. Zhicheng Xu, Mr. Peiyi He and Mr. Haozheng Wan joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [April 2023]
    • Mr. Zefan Li joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [October 2022]
    • Our paper “Experimentally validated memristive memory augmented neural network with efficient hashing and similarity search” is just published online by Nature Commumications! Congratulations to Ruibin and all!
  • [September 2022]
    • Our paper “An efficient synchronous updating memristor-based Ising solver for combinatorial optimization” was accepted for presentation at IEEE IEDM 2022! Congratulations to Mingrui and all!
  • [Auguest 2022]
    • Miss. Keyi Shan, Mr. Muyuan Peng and Mr. Chengping He joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [May 2022]
    • Ruibin gave a talk about his research on defect aware training at ISCAS 2022!
  • [Janurary 2022]
    • Right before the covid spikes, we went for Dragon’s back hiking! Checkout photos at HERE.
  • [September 2021]
    • Mr. Zhanzhi Liu joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [July 2021]
    • In celebration of the group anniversary, we went for hiking at Lamma Island! Checkout photos at HERE.
  • [June 2021]
    • Mr. Bo Wen joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [April 2021]
    • Mr. Zhiyuan joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [Feburary 2021]
    • Mr. Zhu Wang joined the group, welcome aboard!
    • In celebration of the Spring Festival, we replaced the group meeting with a group hiking! See photos at HERE.
  • [December 2020]
    • Dr. Can Li gave a talk at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) introducing the analog error-correcting code idea for analog computing in crossbars.
  • [November 2020]
    • Mr. Ruibin Mao joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [October 2020]
    • Mr. Yahui Zhao and Mr. Mingrui Jiang joined the group, welcome aboard!
  • [July 2020]
    • Dr. Can Li gave an invited talk at the Phyiscal Society of Hong Kong Annual Conference.
    • Dr. Can Li joined HKU as an assistant professor!

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