News

  • Feb/2021: I'm serving as Guest Editor of IEEE Design & Test Special Issue on Machine Learning for CAD / EDA (submission deadline: Mar. 31, 2021). Please submit your paper to this special issue.

  • Feb/2021: Congratulations to Qi Sun and all co-authors, our paper on FPGA high-level synthesis (HLS) receives Best Paper Award Nomination at DATE 2021!

  • Jan/2021: Congratulations to Wei Li and all co-authors, our paper on Routing Tree Construction receives Best Paper Award at ASPDAC 2021!


  • Nov/2020: 1st Place Award in EDA elite challenge, organized by Chinese Institute of Electronics. Congratulations to Wei and the whole team!

  • Jun/2020: 3rd Place Award in ISPD 2020 Contest: congratulations to Leon and the whole team (photo).

  • Jan/2020: Congratulations to Yuzhe Ma for winning the best poster award in Student Research Forum at ASPDAC 2020 (photo).


  • Nov/2019: Congratulations to Yuzhe Ma and all co-authors, our paper on DNN compression and acceleration receives Best Student Paper Award at ICTAI 2019. (photo) (CUHK-CSE news)

  • July/2019: Graduate students going to oversea as data scientist or research internship: Lu Zhang (Cadence, San Jose site), Yuzhe Ma, Ran Chen, Wanli Chen (Tencent X-Lab), Haoyu Yang (Peking Univ). Wish them a productive summer by working with industry/academic experts.

  • May/2019: I will be serving as TPC Co-Chair of 1st ACM/IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD). Please submit an abstract here. See you in Banff in September!

  • Feb/2019: Congratulations to Haoyu Yang for winning very prestigious $10,000 Nick Cobb Memorial Scholarship by SPIE and Mentor Graphics, a Siemens Business, for his contributions to the advanced lithography. (SPIE news) (CUHK-CSE news)

  • Feb/2019: 7 papers accepted by DAC 2019.

  • Jan/2019: Congratulations to Haoyu Yang for winning the best poster award in Student Research Forum at ASPDAC 2019.

  • Jan/2019: Congratulations to Hao Geng and all co-authors, our paper on SRAF insertion receives Best Paper Award Nomination at ASPDAC 2019.


  • Nov/2018: 2nd Place in ICCAD 2018 Contest on ‘‘Timing-Aware Fill Insertion’’ (contest link) (CUHK-CSE news).

  • July/2018: The final ranking of DAC 2018 System Design Contest is released. Please check here for more details.

  • July/2018: I'm serving as Co-Chair of ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD 2018, whose abstract submission deadline is August 26, 2018.

  • July/2018: Congratulations to Yibo Lin and all co-authors, our paper with title ‘‘Stitch aware Detailed Placement for Multiple E-Beam Lithography’’ has been chosen to receive the prestigious Best Paper Award from Integration, the VLSI Journal. (CUHK-CSE news)

  • July/2018: Graduate students going to oversea as data scientist internship: Yuzhe Ma (nVIDIA, Austin site), Haoyu Yang (Cadence, San Jose site). Wish them a productive summer by working with industry collaborators/experts.

  • Jan/2018: I'm serving as Special Sesion Co-Chair at IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2018. Please submit high-quality paper or special session proposal (Click here for more details).

  • Jan/16/2018: Prof. Xiang Chen from George Mason University visits CUHK-CSE, and delivers a talk with title ‘‘Challenges and Opportunities of Mobile System’’. (photo)


  • Dec/14/2017: Prof. Chengmo Yang from University of Delaware visits CUHK-CSE. Prof. Yang delivers a talk with title ‘‘Nonvolatile Memory Friendly FPGA Synthesis ’’. (Check out more pictures here: photo1, photo2)

  • Nov/21/2017: Prof. Ulf Schlichtmann from TUM and Dr. Siegbert Klee visit CUHK-CSE. Prof. Schlichtmann delivers a talk with title ‘‘New IC Timing Paradigms – Aging-aware Timing and Post-Manufacturing Tuning’’. Dr. Klee also gives a talk with title ‘‘The German Research Landscape and Funding Options for International Collaboration (slides)’’. Also thanks for the helps from Prof. Michael Lyu, Prof. F. Y. Young, and Prof. Ming-Chang Yang in organizing the great event. (Check out more pictures here: photo1, photo2, photo3)

  • Sep/2017: I'm serving as Guest Editor of Integration, the VLSI Journal Special Issue on Emerging Technologies for System Level Design and Interconnects. Please submit your paper to this special issue.

  • May/2017: Graduate students going to Bay Area as data scientist internship: Yuzhe Ma (Cadence), Haoyu Yang (ASML Brion). Wish them a productive summer by working with industry collaborators/experts.

  • Apr/2017: I'm serving as Guest Editor of Integration, the VLSI Journal Special Issue on Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2017. Please submit your paper to this special issue.

  • Apr/2017: Prof. Ting-Chi Wang and Prof. Tsung-Yi Ho along with some graduate students from NTHU visit CUHK-CSE for a joint research seminar. Besides, Prof. Ho delievers a talk with title ‘‘Design and Test of Micro-Electrode-Dot-Array Digital Microfluidic Biochips’’. (Check out more pictures here: photo1, photo2).

  • Mar/2017: 3rd Place in ISPD 2017 Contest on Clock-Aware FPGA Placement (ISPD link).

  • Mar/2017: ISPD-2017 Best Paper Award (ISPD link).




  • Jun/27/2014: Finish my Ph.D. defense presentations, with title “Design for Manufacturing with Advanced Lithography”.

  • Mar/18/2014: 2013 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. (UT-ECE news)

  • Feb/18/2014: DAC 2014 Best Paper Award Nomination. (DAC link)


  • Nov/19/2013: 2013 ICCAD CAD Contest 2nd Place Award. (UT-ECE news)

  • Nov/19/2013: Silver Medal in ACM Student Research Contest. (UT-ECE news)

  • Sep/11/2013: ICCAD 2013 William J. McCalla Best Paper Award! (UT-ECE news) (ICCAD link)

  • May/22/2013: SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship! (UT-ECE news) (SPIE link)

  • May/20/2013: Summer intern in Oracle Inc., Austin.


  • Nov/06/2012: 2012 ICCAD CAD Contest 2nd Place Award. Here is the picture. (UT-ECE news)

  • Oct/09/2012: ASPDAC 2013 Best Paper Award Nomination.

  • Apr/27/2012: 2012 IBM Ph.D. Scholarship Award! (UT ECE news)

  • Jan/30/2012: ASPDAC 2012 Best Paper Award! (UT-ECE news) (ASPDAC link)

  • Aug/02/2011: ICCAD 2011 Best Paper Award Nomination (ICCAD link).