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Liang XiaoPh.D. Student
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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I am a third-year Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), supervised by Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young since 2023 Fall. Previously, I got my B.E from XJTU in June, 2023.
GPU Acceleration, Routing, Placement
[C6] Yutao Wang, Liang Xiao, Bangqi Fu, Lixin Liu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, “Analytical Three-dimensional Orientation-aware Mixed-size Placer”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Long Beach, Jul. 26-29, 2026.
[C5] Jinwei Liu, Xingyu Cui, Liang Xiao, Bangqi Fu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, DRVMA: Detailed Routing by a Versatile Maze Routing Algorithm, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Long Beach, Jul. 26-29, 2026.
[C4] Liang Xiao, Qinkai Duan, Leilei Jin, Tsung-Yi Ho, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Martin D. F. Wong “Gradient-Guided RC Weighting for Timing-Driven Global Routing”, ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), 2026.(Best Paper Award)(paper)
[C3] Qijing Wang*, Liang Xiao*, Evangeline F.Y. Young, “AI-assisted Routing”, ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), 2025.(paper)
[C2] Leilei Jin, Rongliang Fu, Zhen Zhuang, Liang Xiao, Fangzhou Liu, Bei Yu, Tsung-Yi Ho, “ChronoTE: Crosstalk-Aware Timing Estimation for Routing Optimization via Edge-Enhanced GNNs”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2025.(paper)
[C1] Shiju Lin, Liang Xiao, Jinwei Liu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, “InstantGR: Scalable GPU Parallelization for Global Routing”, ACM/IEEE International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2024.(paper)(code)
[J2] Liang Xiao, Jinwei Liu, Lixin Liu, Qijing Wang, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Martin D.F. Wong, “MALT: ML Assisted Shallow-Light Tree Construction”, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2026.(paper)
[J1] Liang Xiao, Shiju Lin, Jinwei Liu, Qinkai Duan, Tsung-Yi Ho, Evangeline F.Y. Young, “InstantGR: Scalable GPU Parallelization for 3-D Global Routing”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2025.(paper)(code)
Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Aug/2023 - Now
B.Eng., School of Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Aug/2019 - Jun/2023
| Best Paper Award | ISPD | 2026 |
| Second Place Award at Contest on "Performance-Driven Large Scale Global Routing" | ISPD | 2025 |
| Second Place Award at Contest on "GPU/ML-Enhanced Large Scale Global Routing" | ISPD | 2024 |
| Third Place Award at Contest on "3D Placement with Macros" | ICCAD | 2023 |
Languages: C/C++, Python, Java
Tools : Innovus, PyTorch, LaTeX
