Peng Xu

Ph.D. student

Biography

I am currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) , under the supervision of Prof. Bei Yu from Fall 2022. Previously, I received my B.S. in the Department of Software Engineering from Central South University, and my M.S. in the Department of Computer Science and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology(Shenzhen).

Besides research, I love playing badminton in my spare time.

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.

2025.12 🎉 Congratulations! Our work "Ckt2Vec" accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD).
2025.11 🎉 Congratulations! One paper related to Analog Circuit Representation Learning was accepted as an oral presentation in AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
2025.11 🎉 Congratulations! Four papers were accepted in IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE).
2025.10 🎉 Congratulations! One paper related to Ranking-based Tool Parameter Tuning accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD).
2025.05 🎉 Congratulations! One paper related to Ranking-based Architecture DSE accepted in ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES).
2025.03 🎉 Congratulations! Two papers related to analog circuit design have been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD).
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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

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

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