Zhengyuan Shi (石正源, Stone) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), supervised by Prof. Qiang Xu. Additionally, I am a student enrolled in the Joint Ph.D. Program with Huawei Noah’s Lab. Prior to my journey in CUHK, I obtained the B.Eng. degree with honors in Shandong University in 2021 and was supervised by Prof. Gangqiang Yang. I gained valuable experience as an intern at Xilinx, Huawei and Hisilicon, and also worked as a visiting student at CityU and UBC.
My research focuses on the following areas:
- AI for EDA: Large Circuit Model, Logic Synthesis and Formal Verification.
- AI for Optimization Problem: SAT/SMT, MaxSAT, ILP.
I have published more than 10 papers at the top EDA conferences and journals, including DAC, ICCAD, TECS and TRETS. I also served as reviewer for DAC, ICCAD, TVLSI, Sci China Inf Sci and etc.
🔥 News
- 2023.11: 👉👉 The pip package of DeepGate2 was released. You can call the circuit representation model only with 7 lines. Link
- 2023.08: 🎉🎉 Our two papers DeepGate2: Functionality-Aware Circuit Learning and SATformer: Transformers for UNSAT Solving were accepted by International Conference on Computer-Aided Design.
- 2022.04: 🎉🎉 Our paper DeepGate: Learning Neural Representations of Logic Gates was nominated as Best Paper in Design Automation Conference.
- 2021.04: I was selected as the Outstanding Student of Shandong Province and my undergraduate thesis was awarded by Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award in SDU.
- 2020.12: I received Presidential Scholarship (校长奖学金, only 20 students) and Baosteel Scholarship (宝钢奖学金,only 4 students), which is reported by news 齐鲁晚报.
📝 Publications
Conference Publication
- [C12] EDA-Driven Preprocessing for SAT Solving, Zhengyuan Shi, Tiebing Tang, et. al. Preprint, 2024
- [C11] DeepSeq2: Temporal Correlations Aware Sequential Circuit Learning, Sadaf Khan, Zhengyuan Shi, Min Li and Qiang Xu, Preprint, 2024
- [C10] DeepGate2: Functionality-Aware Circuit Learning, Zhengyuan Shi, Hongyang Pan, et. al, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2023
- [C9] SATformer: Transformers for UNSAT Solving, Zhengyuan Shi, Min Li, et. al, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2023
- [C8] On EDA-Driven Learning for SAT Solving, Min Li, Zhengyuan Shi, et. al, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023
- [C7] Addressing Variable Dependency in GNN-based SAT Solving, Zhiyuan Yan, Min Li, Zhengyuan Shi, et. al. Computer Aided Verification (CAV), 2023
- [C6] DeepSeq: Deep Sequential Circuit Learning, Sadaf Khan, Zhengyuan Shi, et. al. . Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), 2023
- [C5] Design Space Exploration of Galois and Fibonacci Configuration based on Espresso Stream Cipher, Zhengyuan Shi, Cheng Chen, Gangqiang Yang, et. al. International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT), 2022
- [C4] DeepTPI: Test Point Insertion with Deep Reinforcement Learning, Zhengyuan Shi, Min Li, et. al. International Test Conference, 2022
- [C3] DeepGate: Learning Neural Representations of Logic Gates, Min Li, Sadaf Khan, Zhengyuan Shi, et. al. Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2022
- [C2] Towards a Smaller than Grain Stream Cipher: Optimized FPGA Implementations of Fruit-80, Zhengyuan Shi, Gangqiang Yang, et. al. International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), 2022
- [C1] Testability-Aware Low Power Controller Design with Evolutionary Learning, Min Li, Zhengyuan Shi, et. al. International Test Conference, 2021
Journal Publication
- [J4] The Dawn of AI-Native EDA: Promises and Challenges of Large Circuit Models, Qiang Xu, Guojie Luo, Mingxuan Yuan, Zhengyuan Shi, et. al. Preprint, 2024
- [J3] Customized FPGA Implementation of Authenticated Lightweight Cipher Fountain for IoT Systems, Zhengyuan Shi, Cheng Chen, Gangqiang Yang et. al. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2024
- [J2] Hardware Optimizations of Fruit-80 Stream Cipher: Smaller than Grain, Zhengyuan Shi, Gangqiang Yang, et. al. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), 2023
- [J1] Design Space Exploration of Galois and Fibonacci Configuration based on Espresso Stream Cipher, Zhengyuan Shi, Cheng Chen, Gangqiang Yang, et. al. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), 2023
🎖 Honors and Awards
Acadamic Awards
- 2023.09 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) Student Scholar
- 2023.05 Design Automation Conference (DAC) Young Fellowship
- 2022.06 Best Paper Awared Nominee, Design Automation Conference(DAC)
- 2021.04 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, Shandong University
Others
- 2020.12 Presidential Scholarship, Shandong University
- 2020.11 Outstanding Maker of Shandong Province (山东省优秀创客), Education Council of Shandong Province (省团委、省教育厅、省科技厅等)
- 2020.09 Second Prize, National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest (全国大学生电子设计竞赛)
- 2018.05 Outstanding Individual in Innovation and Intrepreneurship, Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Qingdao City (青岛市团委、市人社局等)
- 2016.11 First Prize, National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP)
📖 Educations
- 2021.08 - Now (2025.11), Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- 2017.09 - 2021.06, B.Eng. in Information Engineering, School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University.
- 2018.07 - 2018.08, Visiting Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia.
💻 Internships
- 2021.08 - Now, Noah’s Lab, Huawei, Hong Kong S.A.R.
- 2021.03 - 2021.06, Hisilicon, China.
- 2020.07 - 2020.11, Central Hardware Engineering Department, Huawei, China.
- 2019.12 - 2021.04, Architecture Lab for Arithmetic and Security, CityU, supervised by Prof. Ray C.C. Cheung.
- 2019.06 - 2019.09, Xilinx, China.
💪 Services
- Chair, IEEE CUHK Student Branch
- Teaching Assistant, Embedded System Development and Applications (CENG4480) / Embedded System Design (CENG2400), CUHK
- Teaching Assistant, Applied Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (FTEC5520), CUHK
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My love 💗: Yiran Liu, Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau.
My cats 🐱🐱: Mini (咪咪) and Tangyuan (汤圆)