Biography
I am an assistant professor in the School of Integrated Circuits at Peking University associated with the Center for Energy-efficient Computing and Applications (CECA). Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin from 2018 to 2019. I received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018 and the B.S. degree in Microelectronics from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2013. My research interests include VLSI CAD, machine learning applications, heterogeneous computing. I am a recipient of the Best Paper Awards at DATE 2023, DATE 2022, TCAD 2021, DAC 2019, Integration, the VLSI Journal 2018, and SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference 2016.
I am always looking for motivated undergraduate and graduate students with background in computer science, microelectronics, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics, or related areas, working on research fields of
machine learning assisted CAD;
GPU/FPGA acceleration.
Opening positions available: Ph.D., Post Doc, Engineer, Interns.
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Recent News
1/2025: Congratulations to Xiaohan Gao for winning the Best Poster Award at ASPDAC 2025 Student Research Forum!
10/2024: We won the First Place at ICCAD 2024 CAD Contest Problem C: Scalable Logic Gate Sizing Using ML Techniques and GPU Acceleration and ICCAD 2024 CADathlon. Cheers and congratulations to Yufan Du, Zizheng Guo, and Jing Mai!
3/2024: We won the First Place at ISPD 2024 GPU/ML-Enhanced Large Scale Global Routing Contest. Cheers and congratulations to Chunyuan Zhao!
Selected Awards and Honors
- Best Paper Award, ISEDA 2024
- Best Paper Award, DATE 2023
- Best Paper Award, DATE 2022
- Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award, TCAD 2021
- Best Paper Award, ISPD 2020
- Best Paper Award, DAC 2019
- Inaugural Best Paper Award, Integration, the VLSI Journal, 2018
Franco Cerrina Memorial Best Student Paper Award, SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, 2016
- Best Paper Award Nomination, ASPDAC 2025
- Honorable Mention, ISEDA 2024
- Best Paper Award Nomination, ICCAD 2024
- Best Paper Award Nomination, ICCAD 2022
- Best Paper Award Nomination, ASPDAC 2020
- Best Paper Award Nomination, DAC 2019
Best Paper Award Nomination, ISPD 2019
- Inaugural Best Reviewer Award, ICCAD 2023
- Early Career Award, CCF Technical Committee in IC, 2023
- Graduate Continuing Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2017
Selected Contest Awards by Students in My Group
- Best Poster Award at Student Research Forum, ASPDAC 2025
- 1st Place in 2024 China Postgraduate IC Innovation Competition - EDA Elite Challenge Grand Finals (中国研究生创芯大赛-EDA精英挑战赛决赛麒麟杯)
- 1st Place in ICCAD 2024 CAD Contest
- 1st Place in ICCAD 2024 CADathlon
- 1st Place in ISPD 2024 Contest
- 2nd Place in MLCAD 2023 Contest
- 1st Place in EDAthon 2022
- 2nd Place in 2022 EDA Elite Challenge Grand Finals (EDA精英挑战赛决赛菁英杯)
- 1st Place in 2022 ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals (Undergraduate Category)