About Me
I am a second-year PhD student in the School of Integrated Circuits at Peking University, advised by Prof. Yibo Lin. Before that, I obtained my B.S. degree in the College of Engineering at Peking University. My research interests include data structure, algorithm and GPU-acceleration in electronic design automation (EDA). I won the first place in the ISPD contest held by NVIDIA in 2024 and 2025. I am a recipent of Best Paper Award Nomination in ICCAD 2025.
Publications
Conference Papers
- HeLEM-GR: Heterogeneous Global Routing with Linearized Exponential Multiplier Method
Chunyuan Zhao, Zizheng Guo, Rui Wang, Zaiwen Wen, Yun Liang, Yibo Lin*
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, New Jersey, 2024.
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LEGALM: Efficient Legalization for Mixed-Cell-Height Circuits with Linearized Augmented Lagrangian Method
Jing Mai, Chunyuan Zhao, Zuodong Zhang, Zhixiong Di, Yibo Lin*, Runsheng Wang, Ru Huang
ACM International Symposium on Physical Design, Austin, TX, 2025.
[pdf] - GTA: GPU-Accelerated Track Assignment with Lightweight Lookup Table for Conflict Detection
Chunyuan Zhao, Jiarui Wang, Xun Jiang, Jincheng Lou, Yibo Lin*
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Munich, 2025.
Best Paper Nomination
[pdf] - Standard Cell Layout Synthesis for Dual-Sided 3D-Stacked Transistors (FFETs)
Kairong Guo, Haoran Lu, Rui Guo, Jiarui Wang, Chunyuan Zhao, Heng Wu, Runsheng Wang and Yibo Lin*
IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Disneyland, Hong Kong, 2026.
[pdf] - HeteroSTA: A CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Static Timing Analysis Engine with Holistic Industrial Design Support
Zizheng Guo, Haichuan Liu, Xizhe Shi, Shenglu Hua, Zuodong Zhang, Chunyuan Zhao, Runsheng Wang and Yibo Lin*
IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Disneyland, Hong Kong, 2026.
Invited Paper - Integrated Timing-driven Placement for Hybrid-Bonding-based Face-to-Face 3D ICs
Yuhao Ji, Yunqi Shi, Tianshu Hou, Yuxuan Zhao, Chunyuan Zhao, Peiyu Liao, Zizheng Guo, Chao Qian, Yibo Lin and Bei Yu*
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Long Beach, 2026. - ScoutCell: Sensitivity-Guided Coupling Optimization for Timing-Driven Standard Cell Synthesis
Kairong Guo, Haoyi Zhang, Haichuan Liu, Chunyuan Zhao, Yibo Lin*
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, CA, 2026. - Anonymous: A Unified Agentic Platform for Digital Chip Design and Optimization
Jincheng Lou, Ruohan Xu, Jiecheng Ma, Boyang Wu, Yuhao Ji, Chunyuan Zhao, Xinyu Qu, Yuxiang Zhao, Runzhe Tao, Bei Yu, Zhixiong Di, Yibo Lin*
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, CA, 2026.
Journal Papers
- LEGALM 2.0: A Versatile Augmented Lagrangian Method-Based Methodology for Mixed-Cell-Height Legalization
Jing Mai, Chunyuan Zhao, Zuodong Zhang, Zhixiong Di, Runsheng Wang, Yibo Lin*
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2025.
[link] - GAP-LA: GPU-Accelerated Performance-Driven Layer Assignment
Chunyuan Zhao, Zizheng Guo, Zuodong Zhang, Yibo Lin*
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2026.
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Honor and Awards
| Honor / Award | Year |
|---|---|
| Best Paper Award Nomination in ICCAD | 2025 |
| 1st Place in CAD Contest at ISPD (Performance-Driven Large Scale Global Routing) [LINK] | 2025 |
| ICCAD Student Scholar Program Grant | 2024 |
| 1st Place in CAD Contest at ISPD (GPU/ML-Enhanced Large Scale Global Routing) [LINK] | 2024 |
| Gold Award in China Collegiate Programming Contest, Mianyang Site | 2020 |
| Bronze Medal in National Olympiad in Informatics | 2019 |
Experience
| Affiliation | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Primarius Technology, Routing Tool Development | Shanghai, China | Jun. 2025 - Present |
| Peking University, Ph.D. Student in Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering | Beijing, China | Sep. 2024 - Present |
| Institute of Electronic Design Automation, Peking University, Research Intern | Jiangsu, China | Jul. 2024 - Sep.2024 |
| Primarius Technology, Routing Tool Development | Beijing, China | Jul. 2023 - Aug. 2023 |
| Peking University, B.S. in Scientific and Engineering Computing | Beijing, China | Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2024 |