🌟 We are thrilled to announce that our team has won the Best Paper Award in the "FPGA and Embedded Systems" track at the 29th International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT 2025), held in Chandigarh from August 7–9, 2025. 🎉 Our award-winning work - "Quantized Residual CNN on FPGA for Real-Time Driver Attention Detection Using hls4ml" - was carried out by: 🔹 Joel Dan Philip , Asif Muhammed , Nalesh S , Kala S Congratulations to all authors for achieving this recognition ! 👏 👏 Special shoutout to Joel Dan Philip - achieving this in undergraduate study is truly inspiring! (This work was done during his 4th semester B.Tech ECE, IIITK) Our presence at VDAT 2025 was further enriched by a Tutorial Session delivered by Dr. Kala S in collaboration with Dr. Anand Mukhopadhyay (MathWorks) on "Accelerating System Design: HDL Code Generation and Verification Techniques". Kudos to the entire team for their dedication, innovation, and collaborative spirit! 🚀 💡 Innovation. Collaboration. Impact. That’s the I²CS spirit ! Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam 29th Symposium on VLSI Design and Test - VDAT 2025
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