Siting Liu, Ph.D. Senior Researcher in Huawei Hong Kong Research Center

Biography

I am currently senior researcher in EDA Lab, Huawei Hong Kong Research Center. Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. degree the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), under the supervision of Prof. Bei Yu on Aug. 2024. Before that, 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.

I'm serving as the track programme committee member in Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) 2025 and reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), and Integration, the VLSI Journal.

Contact

Email: lusicaliu@outlook.com
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Research Interest

• Electronic Design Automation

• Machine Learning in EDA

• GPU Acceleration

Publication

Conference papers

• [C13] Xinfei Liu, Siting Liu, Bei Yu, Song Chen, Qi Xu, “ThePlace: Thermal-Aware Placement With Operator Learning-Based Ultra-Fast Simulator”, IEEE/ACM Asian and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Japan, Jan. 20–23, 2025.

• [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

• [J5] Siting Liu, Ziyi Wang, Fangzhou Liu, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, Martin Wong, “Sign-off Timing Considerations via Concurrent Routing Topology Optimization”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2024.

• [J4] Yuxuan Zhao, Peiyu Liao, Siting Liu, Jiaxi Jiang, Yibo Lin, Bei Yu, “Analytical Heterogeneous Die-to-Die 3D Placement with Macros”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2024.

• [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.

Experience

• Senior Researcher, Huawei Hong Kong Research Center, Aug. 2024 - Now

• Software Engineer Intern, Huawei Hong Kong Research Center, Dec. 2023 - March 2024

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

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

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Aug 2020 - Aug 2024

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

• First Place Award, ACM SIGDA Student Research Competition, 2024

• Best PhD Thesis Poster Award, CCF DAC, 2024

• 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