Jinwei Liu @ CUHK

About

I am currently a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young since Fall 2018. Previously, I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Sichuan University. My current research interests include Placement and Routing (PnR), VLSI Physical Design, Combinatorial Optimization and Machine learning.

+ Publications

[J1] Bentian Jiang, Jingsong Chen, Jinwei Liu, Lixin Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Xiaopeng Zhang, and Evangeline F.Y. Young. “CU.POKer: Placing DNNs on WSE with Optimal Kernel Sizing and Efficient Protocol Optimization.” accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of IntegratedCircuits and Systems (TCAD).
[C6] Shiju Lin, Jinwei Liu, Martin D.F. Wong. “GAMER: GPU Accelerated Maze Routing.” In 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD).
[C5] Fangzhou Wang, Lixin Liu, Jingsong Chen, Jinwei Liu, Xinshi Zang and Martin D.F. Wong. “Starfish: An Efficient P&R Co-Optimization Engine with A*-based Partial Rerouting.” In 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD).
[C4] Jinwei Liu, Gengjie Chen, Evangeline F.Y. Young. “REST: Constructing Rectilinear Steiner Minimum Tree via Reinforcement Learning.” In 2021 58th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC).
[C3] Jiang Bentian, Jingsong Chen, Jinwei Liu, Lixin Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Xiaopeng Zhang, and Evangeline F.Y. Young. “CU. POKer: Placing DNNs on Wafer-Scale Al Accelerator with Optimal Kernel Sizing.” In 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD).
[C2] Jinwei Liu, Chak-Wa Pui, Fangzhou Wang, and Evangeline F.Y. Young. “CUGR: Detailed-Routability-Driven 3D Global Routing with Probabilistic Resource Model.” In 2020 57th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC).
[C1] Jingsong Chen, Jinwei Liu, Gengjie Chen, Dan Zheng and Evangeline F.Y. Young. “MARCH: MAze Routing Under a Concurrent and Hierarchical Scheme for Buses.” In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019.

+ Honors & Awards

First Place at ICCAD 2021 Contest on GPU-Accelerated Logic Rewriting
Second Place at ICCAD 2021 Contest on Routing with Cell Movement Advanced
Second Place at ICCAD 2021 CADathlon
Full Postgraduate Studentship of CUHK, 2018-Present
Talent Development Scholarship, HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund, 2021
Second Place at ISPD 2021 Contest on “Wafer Scale Physics Modeling”
First Place at ICCAD 2020 Contest on “Routing with Cell Movement”
First Place at ISPD 2020 Contest on “Wafer-Scale Deep Learning Accelerator Placement”
First Place at ICCAD 2019 Contest on “LEF/DEF Based Open-Source Global Router”
First Place at ICCAD 2018 Contest on “Obstacle-Aware On-Track Bus Routing”