2026
J22. HOLMES 2.0: Holistic Optimization and Learning-based Multi-model Exploration System for High-Level Synthesis
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2026.
Jinhong Huang, Yuyan Wang, Boxiang Song, Chengkai Zhu, Yuman Zeng, Jiayao Li, Keren Zhu†, Lang Feng, Changhao Yan†, Chixiao Chen, and Xuan Zeng†
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2026.
J20. Beyond Surrogate Accuracy: Credibility-Aware LLM-Guided Design Space Exploration for High-Level Synthesis
ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), 2026.
- FPT 2026 Journal Track
- † 通讯作者
J19. 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.
J18. 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.
J17. 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.
J16. PhyLS: An AI-driven Physically Aware Synthesis Platform
Frontiers of Computer Science, 2026.
J15. An Accurate and Efficient Stochastic Solver for Transient Thermal Analysis with Mixed Boundary Conditions
Zhixuan Dong, Yuan Meng, Changhao Yan, Zhaori Bi, Keren Zhu, Sheng-Guo Wang, Dian Zhou, and Xuan Zeng
IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, 2026.
C68. Beyond Capacity Checks: Read-Trace Consistency in Systolic-Array Simulator Evaluation
Yixuan Zhuang†, Shiting Wang, Ruiyao Qin, and Keren Zhu†
International Conference on Integrated Circuits and Microsystems (ICICM), Xi'an, China, October 16–18, 2026.
C66. EncyLogic: Logic Synthesis as Sequence Generation with Learned Priors and Physical Alignment
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, CA, USA, Nov. 8-12, 2026.
C65. GTStress: A Graph-Augmented Neural Framework for Thermal Stress Simulation of Parameterized TSV Arrays with Superposed Physical Priors and Query-Graph Fusion
Zhixuan Dong, Chenlong He, Changhao Yan†, Zhaori Bi, Keren Zhu, Bowen Jia and Xuan Zeng†
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, CA, USA, Nov. 8-12, 2026.
C64. Analytical Chiplet Placement with Force-Directed Guidance and Chiplet Bridging for Multi-Reticle Interposers
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, CA, USA, Nov. 8-12, 2026.
C63. CNE-PDN: Joint Optimization of PDN Geometry and TSV Layout via Component-Level Neural Parasitic Extraction for 2.5D IC
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, CA, USA, Nov. 8-12, 2026.
C62. An Efficient Framework for Soft Error Analysis and Selective Hardening via Graph Selective State-Space Model
Borui Li, Yuyan Wang, Changhao Yan†, Keren Zhu, Zhaori Bi, Nan Zhang, Zhipeng Liu and Xuan Zeng†
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, CA, USA, Nov. 8-12, 2026.
C61. PeRIFi: Physics-Infused RF Inverse Design with Parametric Data-Efficient Feasible-Region Sampling
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), Long Beach, CA, July 26-29, 2026.
C60. A Physically-aware Framework for Joint MBFF Synthesis with OPTICS-based Debanking
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Finger Lakes, NY, USA, June 22-24, 2026.
C59. PhySeqForm: A Data-Driven, Physical Synthesis Sequence Former
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Shanghai, China, May 24-27, 2026.
C58. HOLMES: Hierarchical Optimization with poLygonal ModEling for Large-Scale AMS Placement
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Shanghai, China, May 24-27, 2026.
C57. Layout-Aware Standard Cell Synthesis via Reparameterization Multi-Task Bayesian Optimization
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Shanghai, China, May 24-27, 2026.
C56. RC-Scaled Timing-Driven Routing: Bridging Targeted Timing Optimization and Massively Parallel Global Routing
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Shanghai, China, May 24-27, 2026.
C55. LENS-HLS: LLM-Enhanced Learning-based Design Space Exploration for High-Level Synthesis
IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), Atlanta, GA, USA, May 13-16, 2026.
C54. Submodular Maximization-inspired Adaptive Routing Bend Space Planning
Siting Liu, Peng Xu, Peiyu Liao, Keren Zhu, Yibo Lin, and Bei Yu
IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Verona, Italy, Apr. 20-22, 2026.
C53. PigMap3: A Physically Aware Incremental Mapping Framework with On-the-fly Post-Layout Critical Path Tracking
IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Hong Kong, China, Jan. 19-22, 2026.
2025
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2025.
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2025.
Mingtao Li, Changhao Yan, Tao Cui, Liguo Jiang, Wenliang Dai, Zhaori Bi, Keren Zhu, and Xuan Zeng
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT), 2025
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2025
Peng Xu, Jindong Tu, Guojin Chen, Keren Zhu, Tinghuan Chen, Tsung-Yi Ho, and Bei Yu
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2025.
C52. HOLMES-HLS: Holistic Optimization and Learning-based Multi-model Exploration System for High-Level Synthesis
International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT) , Shanghai, China, Dec. 2-5, 2025.
C51. LCTMwalk: GPU-Accelerated Transient Thermal Simulation for Liquid-Cooled 2.5D/3D ICs via Random Walks on Circuit Networks of Modified Compact Thermal Models
Zhixuan Dong, Yonghan Luo, Yuan Meng, Changhao Yan, Zhaori Bi, Keren Zhu, Sheng-Guo Wang, Dian Zhou and Xuan Zeng
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Munich, Germany, Oct. 26-30, 2025.
C50. Seeing Through Designs: Attention-Based Knowledge Transfer for Preference-Guided Microarchitecture Search
Yiyang Zhao, Xuyang Zhao, Zhaori Bi, Ming Zhu, Qiwei Zhan, Keren Zhu, Fan Yang, Changhao Yan, Dian Zhou and Xuan Zeng
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Munich, Germany, Oct. 26-30, 2025.
C49. NSTherm: An Error-Bounded Network-Stochastic Fusion Thermal Simulator for Geometry-Adaptable Chiplets via Diffeomorphic Mapping and Neural- Guided Variance Reduction
Yuan Meng, Yuyan Wang, Zhixuan Dong, Yonghan Luo, Changhao Yan, Keren Zhu, Zhaori Bi, Shengguo Wang, Dian Zhou and Xuan Zeng
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Munich, Germany, Oct. 26-30, 2025.
C48. MARIO: A Superadditive Multi-Algorithm Interworking Optimization Framework for Analog Circuit Sizing
Wangzhen Li, Yuan Meng, Ruiyu Lyu, Changhao Yan, Keren Zhu, Zhaori Bi, Dian Zhou and Xuan Zeng
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) , San Francisco, USA, Jun. 22–25, 2025.
C47. Decoupling Analog Circuit Representation from Process for Behavior-Centric Optimization
Jintao Li, Haochang Zhi, Jiang Xiao, Keren Zhu* and Yun Li*,
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) , San Francisco, USA, Jun. 22–25, 2025.
C46. GPU Acceleration of A High-precision Stochastic Solver for Steady-state Thermal Analysis with Robin Boundary Conditions
Yonghan Luo, Yuyan Wang, Zhixuan Dong, Changhao Yan, Zhaori Bi, Keren Zhu, Shengguo Wang, and Xuan Zeng
International Symposium of EDA (ISEDA), Hong Kong, China, May 9–12, 2025.
C45. Adaptive Preconditioning Guided by Divergence Analysis for Enhanced VLSI Global Placement
International Symposium of EDA (ISEDA), Hong Kong, China, May 9–12, 2025.
C44. PZTA: Accelerating Analog Circuit Sizing With A Transferable Circuit Theory-Inspired Pole-Zero Transient Assertion System
International Symposium of EDA (ISEDA), Hong Kong, China, May 9–12, 2025.
C43. Multi-Armed Bandits-Based Exploring and Exploiting the High-Dimensional Design Space for Analog Circuit with Adjoint Sensitivity
Ruiyu Lyu, Yuan Meng, Zhaori Bi, Keren Zhu, Changhao Yan, Fan Yang, and Xuan Zeng
International Symposium of EDA (ISEDA), Hong Kong, China, May 9–12, 2025.
C42. Hybrid Automation in Analog Sizing: Synergizing Designer Intuition with Multi-Objective Optimization for Gain-Boosted Amplifiers
Yue Huang, Wangzhen Li, Xiaochuan Peng, Keren Zhu, Fan Yang, and Xuan Zeng
International Symposium of EDA (ISEDA), Hong Kong, China, May 9–12, 2025.
C41. DAMIL-DCIM: A Digital CIM Layout Synthesis Framework with Dataflow-Aware Floorplan and MILP-Based Detailed Placement
IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Lyon, France, March 31 - April 2, 2025.
C40. ELMap: Area-Driven LUT Mapping with k-LUT Network Exact Synthesis
IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Lyon, France, March 31 - April 2, 2025.
ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Austin, Mar. 16–19, 2025.
Yuan Pu, Fangzhou Liu, Zhuolun He, Keren Zhu, Rongliang Fu, Ziyi Wang, Tsung-Yi Ho, and Bei Yu
ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Austin, Mar. 16–19, 2025.
2024
Tsung-Yi Ho, Sadaf Khan, Jinwei Liu, Yi Liu, Zhengyuan Shi, Ziyi Wang, Qiang Xu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Bei Yu, Ziyang Zheng, Binwu Zhu, Keren Zhu, Yiqi Che, Yun Liang, Yibo Lin, Guojie Luo, Guangyu Sun, Runsheng Wang, Xinming Wei, Chenhao Xue, Haoyi Zhang, Zuodong Zhang, Yuxiang Zhao, Sunan Zou, Lei Chen, Yu Huang, Min Li, Dimitrios Tsaras, Mingxuan Yuan, Hui-Ling Zhen, Zhufei Chu, Wenji Fang, Xingquan Li and Zhiyao Xie
SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, 2024.
Harrison Jin, Hanqing Zhu, Keren Zhu, Thomas Leonard, Jaesuk Kwon, Mahshid Alamdar, Kwangseok Kim, Jungsik Park, Naoki Hase, David Z. Pan, Jean Anne C. Incorvia
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 2024.
C37. AnalogGym: An Open and Practical Testing Suite for Analog Circuit Synthesis
Jintao Li, Haochang Zhi, Ruiyu Lyu, Wangzhen Li, Zhaori Bi*, Keren Zhu*, Yanhan Zeng, Weiwei Shan, Changhao Yan, Fan Yang, Yun Li*, and Xuan Zeng*
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, NY, USA, Oct. 27–31, 2024.
C36. Physically Aware Synthesis Revisited: Guiding Technology Mapping with Primitive Logic Gate Placement
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, NY, USA, Oct. 27–31, 2024.
C35. Revisiting Sensitivity-based Analog Sizing with Derivative-aware Bayesian Optimization and Error-Suppressed Adjoint Analysis
Ruiyu Lyu, Aidong Zhao, Yuan Meng, Zhaori Bi, Keren Zhu, Changhao Yan, Fan Yang, Dian Zhou and Xuan Zeng
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), New Jersey, NY, USA, Oct. 27–31, 2024.
C34. AI-Enabled Layout Automation for Analog and RF IC: Current Status and Future Directions
IEEE International Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integration Technology (RFIT), Chengdu, China, Aug. 28–30, 2024.
C33. Performance-driven Analog Routing via Heterogeneous 3DGNN and Potential Relaxation
Peng Xu, Guojin Chen, Keren Zhu, Tinghuan Chen, Tsung-Yi Ho, and Bei Yu
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) , San Francisco, USA, Jun. 23–27, 2024.
International Symposium of EDA (ISEDA), Xi'an, China, May 10–13, 2024.
2024 Conference of Science and Technology for Integrated Circuits (CSTIC)
Souradip Poddar, Ahmet Budak, Linran Zhao, Chen-Hao Hsu, Supriyo Maji, Keren Zhu, Yaoyao Jia, and David Z. Pan,
IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Valencia, Spain, March 25 - 27, 2024.
Yu Zhang, Yuan Pu, Fangzhou Liu, Peiyu Liao, Kaiyuan Chao, Keren Zhu, Yibo Lin, and Bei Yu,
ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) , Taipei, March 12 - 15, 2024.
Peng Xu, Jintao Li, Tsung-Yi Ho, Bei Yu, and Keren Zhu†,
IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Incheon, S. Korea, Jan 22-25, 2024.
Ruiyu Lyu, Yuan Meng, Zhaori Bi, Keren Zhu, Fan Yang, Changhao Yan, Dian Zhou, and Xuan Zeng,
IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Incheon, S. Korea, Jan 22-25, 2024.
Hyunsu Chae, Keren Zhu, Bhyrav Mutnury, Zixuan Jiang, Daniel de Araujo, Adam Klivans, and David Z. Pan,
IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Incheon, S. Korea, Jan 22-25, 2024.
2023
Hyunsu Chae, Keren Zhu, Bhyrav Mutnury, Doug Wallace, Doug Winterburg, Daniel DeAraujo, Jay Reddy, Adam Klivans and David Z. Pan
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023.
Xiangxing Yang, Keren Zhu, Xiyuan Tang, Meizhi Wang, Mingtao Zhan, Nanshu Lu, Jaydeep P. Kulkarni, David Z. Pan, Yongpan Liu and Nan Sun
IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (JSSC), 2023.
Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu, and David Z. Pan
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023.
Mingjie Liu*, Xiyuan Tang*, Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Nan Sun, and David Z. Pan
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, 2023.
Zehua Pei, Fangzhou Liu, Zhuolun He, Guojin Chen, Haisheng Zheng, Keren Zhu and Bei Yu,
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Francisco, CA, October 29 - November 2, 2023.
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Francisco, CA, October 29 - November 2, 2023.
Hyunsu Chae, Bhyrav Mutnury, Keren Zhu, Doug Wallace, Doug Winterburg, Daniel DeAraujo, Jay Reddy, Adam Klivans and David Z. Pan
IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Antwerp, Belgium, April 17- 19, 2023.
Ahmet F Budak, Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Souradip Poddar, Linran Zhao, Yaoyao Jia and David Z Pan
ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Virtual Conference, March 26-29, 2023.
Hao Chen, Kai-Chieh Hsu, Walker J. Turner, Po-Hsuan Wei, Keren Zhu, David Z. Pan and Haoxing Ren
ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Virtual Conference, March 26-29, 2023.
2022
Steven M. Burns, Hao Chen, Tonmoy Dhar, Ramesh Harjani, Jiang Hu, Nibedita Karmokar, Kishor Kunal, Yaguang Li, Yishuang Lin, Mingjie Liu, Meghna Madhusudan, Parijat Mukherjee, David Z. Pan, Jitesh Poojary, S. Ramprasath, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Arvind K. Sharma, Wenbin Xu, Soner Yaldiz, and Keren Zhu,
Machine Learning Applications in Electronic Design Automation, Springer, 2022
Ahmet F. Budak*, Shuhan Zhang*, Mingjie Liu, Wei Shi, Keren Zhu, and David Z. Pan,
Machine Learning Applications in Electronic Design Automation, Springer, 2022
Mohamed B. Alawieh, Ahmet F. Budak, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu, David Z. Pan, Wei Shi, Xiyuan Tang, Shuhan Zhang and Keren Zhu
Advances in Semiconductor Technologies: Selected Topics Beyond Conventional CMOS, Wiley-IEEE Press., 2022
Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu and David Z. Pan
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems–II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II), 2022.
Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Walker Turner, George Kokai, Po-Hsuan Wei, David Z. Pan, and Haoxing Ren
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Diego, Oct. 30–Nov. 3, 2022.
Hanqing Zhu, Keren Zhu, Jiaqi Gu, Harrison Jin, Ray Chen, Jean Anne Incorvia, and David Z. Pan
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Diego, Oct. 30–Nov. 3, 2022.
Hao Chen, Walker J. Turner, Sanquan Song, Keren Zhu, George F. Kokai, Brian Zimmer, C. Thomas Gray, Brucek Khailany, David Z. Pan, and Haoxing Ren
ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Virtual Conference, March 27-30, 2022.
Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu, and David Z. Pan
IEEE/ACM Asia and SouthPacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Virtual Conference, January 17-20, 2022.
Ahmet F. Budak*, Zixuan Jiang*, Keren Zhu, Azalia Mirhoseini, Anna Goldie, and David Z. Pan
IEEE/ACM Asia and SouthPacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Virtual Conference, January 17-20, 2022.
Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu, Xiyuan Tang, Wei Shi, Nan Sun, and David Z. Pan
IEEE/ACM Asia and SouthPacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Virtual Conference, January 17-20, 2022.
2020
Hao Chen*, Mingjie Liu *, Xiyuan Tang*, Keren Zhu *, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
Journal of Semiconductors, 2020.
Hao Chen*, Mingjie Liu *, Biying Xu*, Keren Zhu *, Xiyuan Tang, Shaolan Li, Yibo Lin, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
IEEE Design & Test, 2020.
Keren Zhu, Mingjie Liu, Hao Chen, Zheng Zhao and David Z. Pan
2nd ACM/IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD),Virtual Event, Iceland, November 16-20, 2020.
Hao Chen, Keren Zhu, Mingjie Liu, Xiyuan Tang, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), November 02-05, 2020.
Keren Zhu, Hao Chen, Mingjie Liu, Xiyuan Tang, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), November 02-05, 2020.
Zixuan Jiang, Keren Zhu, Mingjie Liu, Jiaqi Gu and David Z. Pan
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Glasgow, United Kingdom, August 23-27, 2020.
Mingjie Liu, Keren Zhu, Xiyuan Tang, Biying Xu, Wei Shi, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, July 19-23, 2020.
Mingjie Liu *, Keren Zhu *, Jiaqi Gu, Linxiao Shen, Xiyuan Tang, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), Grenoble, France, Mar. 09-13, 2020.
Mingjie Liu, Wuxi Li, Keren Zhu, Biying Xu, Yibo Lin, Linxiao Shen, Xiyuan Tang, Nan Sun and David Z. Pan
IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Beijing, China, January 13-16, 2020.