News

• Oct/2022: IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award, “for contributions to machine learning in physical design and design for manufacturability”. (photo1) (CEDA webpage) (twitter) (linkedin) (UT ECE news)

• Aug/2022: Media Cover: CUHK EDA. (FengShows news)

• Jun/2022: Media Cover: CUHK CSE. (Mingpao news) (CUHK-CSE news)

• Jun/2022: Congratulations to Wei Li for receiving the Faculty's Outstanding Thesis Award 2021! (CUHK-CSE news)

• Mar/2022: Hao Geng (PhD, 2021) will join ShanghaiTech University, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Congratulations!

• Mar/2022: Congratulations to Siting Liu and all co-authors, our paper FastGR receives Best Paper Award at DATE 2022! (photo) (CUHK-CSE news)

• Nov/2021: Congratulations to Chen Bai and all co-authors, our paper on RISC-V BOOM Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration receives William J. McCalla Best Paper Award at ICCAD 2021! (photo1) (photo2) (CUHK-CSE news) (jiqizhixin-news)

• Nov/2021: Yuzhe Ma (PhD, 2020) will join Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Congratulations!

• Nov/2021: Congratulations to Qi Sun for winning the ICCAD 2021 Student Research Competition Third Place in Graduate Category, for his work titled ‘‘Fast and Efficient Deployment of Deep Learning Algorithms via Learning-based Methods’’. (photo).

• Nov/2021: 9 papers accepted by ICCAD 2021.

• Oct/2021: 3 papers accepted by ICCV 2021.

• Sep/2021: 2nd Place Award at ICDAR 2021 Competition on Integrated Circuit Text Spotting and Aesthetic Assessment Task 3.1 (photo).

• Aug/2021: Promoted to Associate Professor.

• Jun/2021: ACM SIGDA Meritorious Service Awards, “for service as SIGDA Web Chair from 2016 to 2021, SIGDA Student Research Competition Chair in 2018 and 2019, and other SIGDA activities”. (SIGDA webpage)

• 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! (photo1) (photo2) (CUHK-CSE news)

• 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).

• Dec/2016: Under the support of CUHK Taiwan Collaboration Fund, students from my group and Prof. Young's group visit National Chiao Tung University (photo) and National Tsing-Hua University (photo).

• Dec/2016: Prof. Ansuman Banerjee@Indian Statistical Institute visits CUHK CSE, and gives a talk with title ‘‘Using Machine Learning for Bug classification in Design Verification’’.

• Nov/2016: SIX papers are presented in ICCAD 2016. Please check the publication page for details.

• Sep/2016: Prof. Hui-Ru Jiang@National Chiao Tung University visits CUHK CSE, and gives a talk with title ‘‘Recent Research Development in Flip-flop Clustering’’.

• Aug/2016: Prof. Yiyu Shi@University of Notre Dame visits CUHK CSE, and deliveries a seminar talk with title ‘‘Novel Cross-Layer Framework for Early-Stage Power Delivery and Architecture Co-Exploration’’.

• Jun/2016: With Prof. Yinyu Ye@Stanford and Prof. Shiyan Hu]@MTU, I'm one of editors of Springer Book “Leveraging Big Data Techniques for Cyber-Physical Systems”. Please consider contributing a chapter to the book.

• Jun/2016: I'm serving as Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (TSUSC) Special Issue on Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems. Please submit your paper to this special issue!

• Apr/2016: Prof. Atsushi Takahashi@Tokyo Institute of Technology visits CUHK CSE, and gives a talk with title ‘‘Routing Algorithms - From Classic To Advanced’’.

• Feb/2016: Congratulations to collaborator Yibo Lin (who is PhD student @UT Austin) and all the coauthors. Our paper “Triple/Quadruple Patterning Layout Decomposition via Novel Linear Programming and Iterative Rounding” has won Best Student Paper Award at SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference 2016. (UT-ECE news)

• Jan/2016: I'm serving as Guest Editor of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) Special Issue on Scalable Cyber-Physical Systems. Please submit your paper to this special issue!

• Jan/2016: Prof. David Z. Pan@UT Austin visits CUHK CSE, and gives a talk with title ’'Machine Learning and Pattern Matching in VLSI CAD’’. I'm very lucky to have worked with Prof. Pan during my PhD study. Here is the picture of Prof. Pan's visit.

• Jan/2016: I'm serving as publicity chair of IEEE International Workshop on Design Automation for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSDA 2016), which is in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC).

• Nov/2015: Congratulations to Gengjie Chen, Jian Kuang, Ziliang Zeng, Hang Zhang, Prof. Yu and Prof. Young for wining the 1st Place Award at the 2015 ICCAD CAD Contest on Problem “3D-ICON: 3D Interlayer Cooling Optimized Network” (Contest link).

• Sep/2015: Please submit your papers to CPSS 2016.

• Aug/2015: Please check the new website of Technical Committee on CPS, where I'm serving as web chair and member.

• Aug/13/2015: I join in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor from Fall 2015.

• Jan/20/2015: Outstanding Dissertation Award from the European Design & Automation Assoc. (EDAA) in category of “New directions in physical design, design for manufacturing and CAD for analog circuits and MEMS”. (UT-ECE news) (EDAA 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).