Peng Xu Ph.D. student Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Email:pxu22@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Biography

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow working with Professor Bei Yu in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Previously, I received my Ph.D. from the same department under the supervision of Professor Bei Yu. I received my M.S. from the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), and my B.S. from the Department of Software Engineering at Central South University.

Besides research, I enjoy a variety of sports and activities in my spare time, including pickleball, badminton, billiards, hiking, and fitness training.

Research Interests

My research interests include:

• ML for Analog Design: DAC'24, TCAD'25, ICCAD'25, AAAI'25.
• Optimization-inspired Design Space Exploration: ICML'23, ICCAD'24, DAC'25, TODAES'25, TCAD'25.
• LLMs and Its Application in EDA: DAC'25, DATE'25.

News

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Aug 2022 - present

• M.S. Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Sep 2019 - Jan 2022

• B.S. Software Engineering, Central South University, Sep 2015 - Jun 2019

Research & Professional Experience

• The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ), P.R. China, Jue. 2023 - Jue. 2024
  Visiting Student
  Topic: Performance-driven Analog Placement and Routing

• Tencent, Shenzhen, P.R. China, Nov. 2021 - May. 2022
  Research Intern, Interactive Entertainment Group
  Topic: Graph Neural Architecture Search for Social Networks

• SenseTime, Beijing, P.R. China, Jun. 2020 - Jun. 2021
  Research Intern, Exploration and Exploitation Group
  Topic: Neural Architecture Search with Big Single-Stage Models

• Intel Asia-Pacific R. & D. Center, Shanghai, P.R. China, Jul. 2018 - Jan. 2019
  Research Intern, Data Center Group
  Topic: Select Best Model Quantization Scheme with Reinforcement Learning

Publications

Honours & Achievements

• Full Postgraduate Scholarship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2022-2026
  

• Outstanding Graduate Awards, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2022
  

• First-class Scholarship, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2019-2022
  

• Third Prize of CCF BDCI Competition Aliyun Database Sub-track, CCF \& Aliyun, 4/684, 2019
  

• Outstanding Graduate Awards, Central South University, 2019
  

• First Prize of the Intel National Student Software Innovation Competition, The Pilot Software Engineer Schools Association \& Intel, 4/5000, 2018
  

• First-class scholarship, Central South University, 2015-2019
  

Professional Service

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)

• ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)

Conference Reviewer

• 2023 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD)

Teaching

• 2023-R1, CSCI2720, Building Web Applications,

• 2022-R2, ENGG2020, Digital Logic and Systems,

• 2022-R1, ENGG2020, Digital Logic and Systems,