Dr. Andrew Boutros, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, was recognized with two major awards at the International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), held last week in Leiden, the Netherlands.
FPL is the world’s longest-running and largest conference dedicated to field-programmable logic and reconfigurable computing. Now in its 34th year, the conference is a key venue where researchers and industry experts share advances in system architectures, design tools, applications, and processors.
At this year’s gathering, Dr. Boutros and collaborators from Cornell University and the University of Toronto received the FPL 2025 Best Paper Award for their work Double Duty: FPGA Architecture to Enable Concurrent LUT and Adder Chain Usage.
In addition, the FPL 2025 Community Award was presented to Dr. Boutros and colleagues for their earlier work, Koios: A Deep Learning Benchmark Suite for FPGA Architecture and CAD Research, which has had a lasting influence on the field.
Dr. Boutros’s research focuses on computer architecture and CAD tools for reconfigurable hardware, as well as domain-specific acceleration for computationally demanding workloads. Before joining Waterloo, he worked as a research scientist at Intel Labs and Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group (now Altera) and later led the Toronto office of MangoBoost, a startup building specialized accelerators for datacenter infrastructure.
This double recognition highlights Dr. Boutros’ role in advancing innovation in this rapidly evolving field.