CV

Keren Zhu

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

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

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

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)