About
Cunxi is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department (A. James Clark
School of Engineering), and an
affiliated Assistant Professor
in the CS Department, at the
University of
Maryland, College Park. His research interests focus on novel algorithms, systems, and hardware designs for computing and security. Before joining University of Maryland, Cunxi was Assistant Professor with University of Utah, and held PostDoc at Cornell University (with Prof. Zhiru Zhang) and EPFL in 2017-2018 (with Prof. Giovanni De Micheli). Cunxi was a research intern at IBM T.J Watson Research Center in 2015
and 2016. He received Ph.D. degree from UMass Amherst in 2017 under Prof. Maciej
Ciesielski. His work received the Best Paper Award at DAC (2023), Best Paper Nominations at ASP-DAC (2017),
TCAD (2018), and 1st place at DAC Hack@DAC (2017), NSF
CAREER Award (2021), and American Physical Society DLS poster award (2022).
CV
I am actively recruiting self-motivated Ph.D. students in broad aspects
of computing engineering. Send me an email with a brief research statement,
CV, and transcript if you are interested.
PhD Application at ECE@UMD
I am very fortunate to work with a group of talented researchers and students!
Recent talks
- The Rise and Fall of Machine Learning for EDA - Studies in Synthesis and Verification (U Delaware, Peking U, Google X, Synopsys)
- A Computer Engineering Journey to Optical Neural Networks: Infrastructure, Algorithms, and Co-design (Rutgers Efficient AI Seminar, Stevens Institute of Technology, NCSU, OPTSys Seminar Series)
News
- 04/2024 Daniel (NSF REU) will begin his PhD study at MIT EECS in Fall'24!
- 04/2024 Received $900K NSF Grant for advanced hardware synthesis w Prof. Zhiru Zhang (Cornell).
- 04/2024 A survey paper on ML for hardware formal verification is accepted at ACM TODAES.
- 02/2024 Yingjie will join Google X for summer internship.
- 02/2024 Two papers accepted at DAC'24.
- 02/2024 New book on "FPGA EDA" released.
- 12/2023 BoolGebra accepted at DATE'24. Congrats to Yingjie!
- 11/2023 Yingji Li placed 2nd in ACM SIGDA student research competition (SRC)! News@UMD
- 09/2023 09/2023 Received $600K from NSF-FET for advancing physics-aware co-design of optical AI systems, in collaboration with Prof. Weilu Gao! Award
- 08/2023 Congrats to Yingjie accepted to EECS Rising Star 2023!!
- 06/2023 Three papers accepted at ICCAD'23!
- 06/2023 Gamora won Best Paper Award at DAC'23! Daniel won DAC'23 Best Young Fellow Presentation !
- 05/2023 Our paper LightRidge has been accepted at ASPLOS'24 ! Check out our open-source hardware release.
- (past news)
Tools
ML-based Synthesis & Design Automation Systems
Formal Verification System
- Algebraic Combinational Equivalence Checking (ACEC) [Thesis Version] [
New Version] [ACEC@ABC] - Logic Decryption using Incremental SAT [Website] [Github]
- Formal Verification of GF(2^n) Arithmetic [Website] [Github]
People
- Dr. Walter Lau Neto (Utah, 19-22) -> Synopsys
- Dr. Yingheng Tang (visiting student) -> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Tara Zamani (Utah, 19-21) -> Duke
- Daniel Robinson (Utah, 22-24; NSF REU) -> MIT EECS
Professional Service
- Nature Scientific Report
- Nature Light: Science & Applications
- Nanophotonics
- ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
- IEEE Design & Test of Computers
- IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Computers
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
- IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
- IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
- ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
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