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Keren Zhu

Keren Zhu 朱可人

Assistant Professor

CODA lab · Fudan University

Assistant Professor in the College of Integrated Circuits & Micro-Nano Electronics at Fudan University. Research interests include design automation, optimization, and AI for chip design.

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison; highest distinction

Experience

  • Research Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2023–2024
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, August 2022–February 2023; with David Z. Pan

Selected publications

From Communities to Coordinates: Hierarchical Clustering-Guided Placement for Large-Scale FPGAs

Ke Li, Pengju Zhang, Zhiyu Zheng, Yuhao Ren, Keren Zhu, Zhiang Wang† and Xuan Zeng†

IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 25-28, 2027.

  • † Corresponding authors
  • Accepted

Beyond Surrogate Accuracy: Credibility-Aware LLM-Guided Design Space Exploration for High-Level Synthesis

Yujie Yan, Guanhua Chen, Yukang Chen, Jiaxin Huang, Jianyi Cheng, and Keren Zhu†

ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), 2026.

  • FPT 2026 Journal Track
  • † Corresponding author

AnalogGym-Opt: An Open and Practical Optimization Infrastructure for LLM-Assisted Analog Circuit Sizing with GRPO

Jintao Li, Haochang Zhi, Yongji Long, Weixuan Liu, Yanhan Zeng, Keren Zhu, Shui Yu†, and Yun Li†

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2026.

  • † Corresponding authors

A Behavior-Centric Methodology for High-Performance Amplifier Sizing

Haochang Zhi*, Jintao Li*, Keren Zhu, Yun Li, Weiwei Shan†, and Wanyuan Qu†

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2026.

  • † Corresponding authors
  • * Equal contributions

S3HDBO: Sensitivity-Guided Search Region Scaling High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization for BSIM-CMG Parameter Extraction

Ruiyu Lyu, Zhaori Bi†, Keren Zhu, Ye Lu and Xuan Zeng†

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2026.

  • † Corresponding authors

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Selected honors

  • World Laureates Prize for Young Scientists Finalist, 2026
  • MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific, 2025
  • Best Paper Award, ISEDA 2025
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