CV

Education, experience, publications, research interests, projects, and skills.

Contact Information

Name Zhiyu Zheng
Professional Title Eng.D. Student in Microelectronics / Integrated Circuits
Email zyzheng24@m.fudan.edu.cn

Professional Summary

Research-oriented engineer focused on VLSI physical design, EDA tooling, reproducible CAD flows, OpenROAD-related research, ML4EDA, and 3D IC implementation.

Experience

  • 2023 - 2024

    Shanghai, China

    Software R&D Engineer
    IC Prophet Microelectronics
    Software engineering work related to EDA-oriented development.
    • Participated in engineering and tooling work for integrated-circuit design software.

Education

  • 2024 -

    Shanghai, China

    Eng.D.
    Fudan University
    Microelectronics / Integrated Circuits
    • College of Integrated Circuits and Micro-Nano Electronics.
  • 2020 - 2024

    Shanghai, China

    B.Eng.
    Fudan University
    Microelectronics
    • School of Microelectronics.

Publications

Skills

Programming (Advanced): C/C++, Python, Verilog HDL, Tcl, Perl, SKILL, Shell
EDA Tools (Advanced): Cadence Virtuoso, Innovus, Genus, OpenROAD, Vivado
Scientific Computing (Advanced): PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, MATLAB

Interests

Research Areas: VLSI physical design, EDA tooling, ML4EDA, OpenROAD-related flows, reproducible CAD flows, physical-design optimization, and 3D IC implementation

Projects

  • TaiWei

    Reproducible 3D IC physical-design project line built around OpenROAD-based and hybrid research flows.

    • Benchmark-friendly experimentation
    • Engineering rigor
    • Open research artifacts
  • TaiWei-Pin-3D

    Pin-aware subproject within the TaiWei line for practical 3D implementation research.

    • 3D flow support
    • Pin-aware implementation
    • Practical research tooling
  • ORFS-Research

    Research and benchmarking work built around the research-oriented OpenROAD-flow-scripts line.

    • Reproducible RTL-to-GDS experimentation
    • Research benchmarking
    • Public ecosystem artifacts
  • OpenROAD-Research

    OpenROAD-based research artifacts for physical design and 3D-flow experimentation.

    • Physical-design research
    • 3D-flow exploration
    • Open tooling context
  • Fudan_Digital_EDA

    Digital IC CAD and HLS-style implementation work covering IR parsing, CFG and DFG construction, scheduling, binding, and RTL generation.

    • IR parsing
    • Scheduling and binding
    • RTL and Verilog generation
  • FUDAN_ANALOG_EDA_MATLAB_SPICE

    MATLAB-based SPICE-like simulator supporting DC, transient, AC, pole-zero, and shooting-method analysis.

    • DC and transient analysis
    • AC and pole-zero analysis
    • Shooting-method support