Siting Liu, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Supervisor: Professor Bei Yu

Biography

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), under the supervision of Prof. Bei Yu since Fall 2020. Previously, I received my B.S. in the Department of Computer Science and Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2020. My Chinese name is 刘思婷.

Contact

Email: lusicaliu@outlook.com
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Research Interest

• Placement and Routing Optimization

• Machine Learning in EDA

• GPU Acceleration

Publication

Conference papers

• [C12] Siting Liu, Jiaxi Jiang, Zhuolun He, Ziyi Wang, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, Martin Wong, “Routing-aware Legal Hybrid Bonding Terminal Assignment for 3D Face-to-Face Stacked ICs”, ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Taipei, Mar. 12–15, 2024.

• [C11] Su Zheng*, Lancheng Zou*, Peng XU, Siting Liu, Bei Yu, Martin Wong, “Lay-Net: Grafting Netlist Knowledge on Layout-Based Congestion Prediction”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Francisco, Oct. 29–Nov. 02, 2023.

• [C10] Siting Liu, Yuan Pu, Peiyu Liao, Hongzhong Wu, Rui Zhang, Zhitang Chen, Wenlong Lv, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, “FastGR: Global Routing on CPU-GPU with Heterogeneous Task Graph Scheduler (Extended Abstract)”, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Macau, Aug. 19–25, 2023.

• [C9] Siting Liu*, Ziyi Wang*, Fangzhou Liu, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, Martin Wong, “Concurrent Sign-off Timing Optimization via Deep Steiner Points Refinement”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jul. 09–13, 2023.

• [C8] Ziyi Wang*, Siting Liu*, Yuan Pu, Song Chen, Tsung-Yi Ho, Bei Yu, “Restructure-Tolerant Timing Prediction via Multimodal Fusion”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jul. 09–13, 2023.

• [C7] Su Zheng, Lancheng Zou, Siting Liu, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, Martin Wong, “Mitigating Distribution Shift for Congestion Optimization in Global Placement”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, Jul. 09–13, 2023.

• [C6] Siting Liu, Peiyu Liao, Rui Zhang, Zhitang Chen, Wenlong Lv, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, “FastGR: Global Routing on CPU-GPU with Heterogeneous Task Graph Scheduler”, IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Mar. 14–23, 2022. (Best Paper Award)

• [C5] Peiyu Liao, Siting Liu, Zhitang Chen, Wenlong Lv, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, “DREAMPlace 4.0: Timing-driven Global Placement with Momentum-based Net Weighting”, IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Mar. 14–23, 2022.

• [C4] Qi Sun, Tinghuan Chen, Siting Liu, Jin Miao, Jianli Chen, Hao Yu, Bei Yu, “Correlated Multi-objective Multi-fidelity Optimization for HLS Directives Design”, IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Feb. 01–05, 2021. (Best Paper Award Nomination)

• [C3] Siting Liu, Qi Sun, Peiyu Liao, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, “Global Placement with Deep Learning-Enabled Explicit Routability Optimization”, IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Feb. 01–05, 2021.

• [C2] Zhuolun He, Peiyu Liao, Siting Liu, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, “Physical Synthesis for Advanced Neural Network Processors”, IEEE/ACM Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Jan. 18–21, 2021. (Invited Paper)

• [C1] Haoyu Yang, Shifan Zhang, Kang Liu, Siting Liu, Benjamin Tan, Ramesh Karri, Siddharth Garg, Bei Yu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, “Attacking a CNN-based Layout Hotspot Detector Using Group Gradient Method”, IEEE/ACM Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Jan. 18–21, 2021.

Journal papers

• [J3] Peiyu Liao, Dawei Guo, Zizheng Guo, Siting Liu, Zhitang Chen, Wenlong Lv, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, “DREAMPlace 4.0: Timing-driven Placement with Momentum-based Net Weighting and Lagrangian-based Refinement”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023.

• [J2] Siting Liu, Yuan Pu, Peiyu Liao, Hongzhong Wu, Rui Zhang, Zhitang Chen, Wenlong Lv, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, “FastGR : Global Routing on CPU-GPU with Heterogeneous Task Graph Scheduler”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023.

• [J1] Qi Sun, Tinghuan Chen, Siting Liu, Jianli Chen, Hao Yu, Bei Yu, “Correlated Multi-objective Multi-fidelity Optimization for HLS Directives Design”, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), vol. 27, no. 4, 2022.

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Aug 2020 - present

• B.S. (ACM class), Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), Sept 2016 - June 2020

Experience

• Software Engineer Intern, Cadence, June 2023 - Aug. 2023

• Research Assistant, CUHK, Nov. 2019 - May 2020

Teaching

• CSCI1540, 2020-R1, Introduction to Computing Using C++

• CSCI4120, 2020-R2, Principles of Computer Game Software

• CSCI1130, 2021-R1, Introduction to Computing Using Java

• CSCI1530, 2021-R2, Computer Principles and Java Programming

Awards

• Best Paper Award, DATE, 2022

• Best Paper Award Nomination, DATE, 2021

• 3rd Place Award, ISPD Contest, 2020

• Full Postgraduate Studentship, CUHK, 2020-2024

• Outstanding Graduate, HUST, 2020

• CCF Elite Collegiate Student Award, CCF, 2019

• National Encouragement Scholarship, HUST, 2017 2018 2019

• First Prize in Mathematics competition of Chinese College Students, CMS, 2017