CV
Keren Zhu
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Education
- Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, TX, 2022
- ECE
- Disseration: Fully-Automated Layout Synthesis for Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
- B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, 2016
- EE
- Graduated with the highest distinction
Work experience
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Research Assistant Professor
- March 2023 - Present, Hong Kong SAR
- University of Texas at Austin
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- July 2022 - February 2023, Austin, TX
- University of Texas at Austin
- Graduate Research Assistant
- Jan 2019 - June 2022, Austin, TX
- Nvidia, USA
- Intern: ASIC and VLSI Research Group: Design Automation Research
- May 2021 - May 2022, Austin, TX
- Cerebras, USA
- Intern: Software: Stack: Place and Route
- May 2020 - October 2020, Remote
- Apple (May 2018 - Aug 2018)
- Intern: Physical Design: SOC, Austin, TX
Service
- TPC Member
- Design Automation conference (DAC), 2023.
- International VLSI Design & Embedded Systems conference (VLSID), 2023.
- Working Group Member
- NSF AI Institute TILOS Ethics and Early Career Development, 2022-2023.
- Local Arrangement Co-Chair
- IEEE CASS Seasonal School: AI/ML for IC Design and EDA, 2022.
- Reviewer
- IEEE Transaction on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)
- ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
- IEEE Transaction on Artificial Intelligence (TAI)
- ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
- Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
- IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)
Skills
- Programming languages
- C/C++
- Python
- EDA tools
- Cadence Virtuoso
Awards and Honors
- Harry Philip Whitworth Endowed Graduate Fellowship, 2021
- Best Student Paper Award Nomination, CICC, 2021
- Best Paper Award Nomination, ASP-DAC, 2020
- Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship, 2015
- Hugo Jr. and Pennie Longemann Scholarship, 2014
- Vincent Rideout Scholarship, 2013