| 2026 | DATE | DAPO: Design Structure-Aware Pass Ordering for HLS via Contrastive and Reinforcement Learning. | Jinming Ge, Linfeng Du, Likith Anaparty, Shangkun Li, Tingyuan Liang, Afzal Ahmad, Vivek Chaturvedi, Sharad Sinha, Zhiyao Xie, Jiang Xu, Wei Zhang |
| 2025 | ICCAD | Automated Design Space Exploration in High-Level Physical Synthesis. | Linfeng Du, Jiawei Liang, Jason Lau, Yuze Chi, Yutong Xie, Chunyou Su, Afzal Ahmad, Zifan He, Jake Ke, Jinming Ge, Jason Cong, Wei Zhang, Licheng Guo |
| 2024 | DAC | Accel-NASBench: Sustainable Benchmarking for Accelerator-Aware NAS. | Afzal Ahmad, Linfeng Du, Zhiyao Xie, Wei Zhang |
| 2024 | FPL | Fast and Practical Strassen's Matrix Multiplication using FPGAs. | Afzal Ahmad, Linfeng Du, Wei Zhang |
| 2023 | DAC | PertNAS: Architectural Perturbations for Memory-Efficient Neural Architecture Search. | Afzal Ahmad, Zhiyao Xie, Wei Zhang |
| 2021 | ICRA | Autonomous Aerial Swarming in GNSS-denied Environments with High Obstacle Density. | Afzal Ahmad, Viktor Walter, Pavel Petrcek, Matej Petrlk, Toms Bca, David Zaitlk, Martin Saska |
| 2020 | ISCAS | Accelerating Tiny YOLOv3 using FPGA-Based Hardware/Software Co-Design. | Afzal Ahmad, Muhammad Adeel Pasha, Ghulam Jilani Raza |
| 2019 | DATE | Towards Design Space Exploration and Optimization of Fast Algorithms for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on FPGAs. | Afzal Ahmad, Muhammad Adeel Pasha |
| 2017 | VTC | Multiple Beacon Based Robust Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks under CSI Uncertainty. | Adarsh Patel, Afzal Ahmad, Rajeev Tripathi |