Zhiyu Zheng

(郑 志宇)

Eng.D. Student at Fudan University

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College of Integrated Circuits and Micro-Nano Electronics (ICMNE)

Fudan University

Shanghai, China

zyzheng24@m.fudan.edu.cn

I am an Eng.D. student at Fudan University, affiliated with the College of Integrated Circuits and Micro-Nano Electronics (ICMNE). I am advised by Prof. Zhiang Wang (王志昂) and co-advised by Prof. Keren Zhu (朱可人). My research interests lie in ML4EDA and open-source physical design, with a focus on 3D IC implementation and timing closure.

Current work: I am developing TaiWei as a platform for 3D IC physical design and TaiWei-Pin-3D as an evaluation platform for running 3D IC cases with 2D physical-design tools. I contribute to ORFS-Research and OpenROAD-Research, building research flows and benchmark infrastructure around OpenROAD. I also develop Agentic OpenROAD to explore agentic AI for reasoning about and optimizing physical-design workflows.

Previously: Before starting the Eng.D. program, I worked as a Software R&D Engineer at IC Prophet Microelectronics. I received my B.Eng. in Microelectronics from Fudan University in 2024.

Research Interests

  • Machine learning for electronic design automation (ML4EDA)
  • 3D IC physical design, implementation, and timing closure
  • Open-source EDA flows and OpenROAD-based research
  • Reproducible physical-design benchmarking and optimization

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selected publications

  1. MLCAD
    From Tool Invocation to Source-Mechanism Exploration: Protected White-Box DSE for Open-Source EDA
    Zhiyu Zheng , Yiming Du , Ziyi Wang, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning for CAD, 2026
  2. Invited: Toward Sustainable and Transparent Benchmarking for Academic Physical Design Research
    Liwen Jiang , Andrew Kahng , Zhiang Wang, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 2026 International Symposium on Physical Design, 2026
  3. CHIP-MAP: A Collaborative Optimization Framework for Macro Placement Using Large Language Models
    Yiming Du , Renye Yan , Yunfan Yang, and 7 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2026 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference, 2026

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