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VLSI and FPGA Design Techniques

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Guyue Huang
Tsinghua University
2
Ahmet F. Budak
Analog Devices (United States)
3
Shuhan Zhang
Fudan University
4
Zizheng Guo
Peking University
5
Atefeh Sohrabizadeh
University of California, Los Angeles
6
Fanping Sui
University of California, Berkeley
7
Haroon Waris
Institute of Space Technology
8
Siting Liu
University of California, Riverside
9
Zhuomin Chai
Wuhan University of Technology
10
Anthony Agnesina
Nvidia (United States)

Rising Stars Papers

1
L-TLA: A Lightweight Driver Distraction Detection Method Based on Three-Level Attention Mechanisms
IEEE Transactions on Reliability|2024
25 cit.
2
Heterogeneous Static Timing Analysis with Advanced Delay Calculator
Unknown Journal|2024
15 cit.
3
Untethered subcentimeter flying robots
Science Advances|2025
11 cit.
4
HeteroExcept: A CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Algorithm to Accelerate Exception-aware Static Timing Analysis
Unknown Journal|2024
6 cit.
5
GOALPlace: Begin with the End in Mind
Unknown Journal|2025
3 cit.
6
An SRAM-based Stochastic Number Generator for Stochastic Computing
Unknown Journal|2025
2 cit.
7
GEM: GPU-Accelerated Emulator-Inspired RTL Simulation
Unknown Journal|2025
2 cit.
8
Can Stochastic Computing Truly Tolerate Bit Flips?
Unknown Journal|2024
1 cit.
9
Harnessing GNNs for Robust Representation Learning in High-Level Synthesis
IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for artificial intelligence.|2024
1 cit.
10
GNN-Based Performance Prediction of Quantum Optimization of Maximum Independent Set
Unknown Journal|2024
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Bangqi Xu
University of Toronto
2
Yu Wang
Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
3
Haoxing Ren
Nvidia (United States)
4
Nvidia Corporation
Unknown
5
V. K. Tomar
GLA University
6
Zi Wang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
7
Yarui Peng
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
8
Mohamed Lamine Fayçal Bellaredj
Université de Moncton
9
Bo Liu
University of Glasgow
10
Jie Wang
Tsinghua University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Invited Paper: VerilogEval: Evaluating Large Language Models for Verilog Code Generation
Unknown Journal|2023
159 cit.
2
RTLFixer: Automatically Fixing RTL Syntax Errors with Large Language Model
Unknown Journal|2024
75 cit.
3
AutoDMP
Unknown Journal|2023
44 cit.
4
Generic lithography modeling with dual-band optics-inspired neural networks
Proceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference|2022
33 cit.
5
PowerSynth 2: Physical Design Automation for High-Density 3-D Multichip Power Modules
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics|2022
26 cit.
6
Invited Paper: CircuitOps: An ML Infrastructure Enabling Generative AI for VLSI Circuit Optimization
Unknown Journal|2023
24 cit.
7
Design of a soft error hardened SRAM cell with improved access time for embedded systems
Microprocessors and Microsystems|2022
22 cit.
8
NVCell 2
Unknown Journal|2023
21 cit.
9
Large Language Model (LLM) for Standard Cell Layout Design Optimization
Unknown Journal|2024
19 cit.
10
Reinforcement Learning Guided Detailed Routing for Custom Circuits
Unknown Journal|2023
18 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Halbert White
University of California San Diego
2
Vipin Kumar
Institute of Management Technology
3
Alberto Sangiovanni‐Vincentelli
University of California, Berkeley
4
Martin D. F. Wong
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5
Giovanni De Micheli
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
6
Sachin S. Sapatnekar
University of Minnesota
7
Yao‐Wen Chang
National Taiwan University
8
Andrew B. Kahng
University of California San Diego
9
Jonathan Rose
University of Toronto
10
Mark Horowitz
Stanford University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
A Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimator and a Direct Test for Heteroskedasticity
Econometrica|1980
26.1k cit.
2
Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators
Neural Networks|1989
21.2k cit.
3
A Fast and High Quality Multilevel Scheme for Partitioning Irregular Graphs
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing|1998
5.7k cit.
4
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Misspecified Models
Econometrica|1982
4.1k cit.
5
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Misspecified Models
Econometrica|1983
3.8k cit.
6
Networks on chips: a new SoC paradigm
Computer|2002
3.7k cit.
7
Universal approximation of an unknown mapping and its derivatives using multilayer feedforward networks
Neural Networks|1990
2.1k cit.
8
1.1 Computing's energy problem (and what we can do about it)
Unknown Journal|2014
1.9k cit.
9
A Reality Check for Data Snooping
Econometrica|2000
1.8k cit.
10
Multilevelk-way Partitioning Scheme for Irregular Graphs
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing|1998
1.7k cit.

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