Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
† indicates equal contribution
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ICCAD’25 CROP: Circuit Retrieval and Optimization with Parameter Guidance using LLMs
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2025. (Acceptance rate=24.7%) arXiv -
ASP-DAC’25 PRICING: Privacy-Preserving Circuit Data Sharing Framework for Lithographic Hotspot Detection
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2025. (Acceptance rate=28.6%) ACM -
TODAES’25 A Survey of Research in Large Language Models for Electronic Design Automation
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2025. ACM -
ICCAD’24 EDALearn: A Comprehensive RTL-to-Signoff EDA Benchmark for Democratized and Reproducible ML for EDA Research (Invited Paper)
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2024. ACM -
TCAD’23 Lithography Hotspot Detection Based on Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Local Adaptation and Feature Selection
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023. IEEE PDF -
TCAD’23 Toward Fully Automated Machine Learning for Routability Estimator Development
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023. NSF -
ICCAD’23 PANDA: Architecture-Level Power Evaluation by Unifying Analytical and Machine Learning Solutions
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2023. (Acceptance rate=23%) IEEE -
ASP-DAC’23 Rethink before Releasing your Model: ML Model Extraction Attack in EDA 🏆 Best Paper Award
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2023. (Acceptance rate=31.0%) ACM PDF -
ASP-DAC’23 Fully Automated Machine Learning Model Development for Analog Placement Quality Prediction
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2023. (Acceptance rate=31.0%) ACM PDF -
ICCAD’22 Robustify ML-based Lithography Hotspot Detectors
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2022. (Acceptance rate=22.5%) ACM PDF -
ICCAD’22 DEEP: Developing Extremely Efficient Runtime On-Chip Power Meters
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2022. (Acceptance rate=22.5%) ACM
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ASP-DAC’22 Lithography Hotspot Detection via Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Local Adaptation
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2022. arXiv -
DAC’22 Towards Collaborative Intelligence: Routability Estimation based on Decentralized Private Data
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2022. (Acceptance rate=23%) ACM arXiv -
TCAD’22 The Dark Side: Security and Reliability Concerns in Machine Learning for EDA
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2022. PDF -
TCAD’22 Pre-Placement Net Length and Timing Estimation by Customized Graph Neural Network
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2022. NSF -
ICCAD’21 Automatic Routability Predictor Development Using Neural Architecture Search
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2021. (Acceptance rate=23.5%) ACM arXiv -
DATE’19 One Fault is All it Needs: Breaking Higher-Order Masking with Persistent Fault Analysis
Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2019. (Acceptance rate=24%) IACR