Lead Software Engineer
Email: wfz0755 AT gmail.com
Resume/CV (as of April 2024)
I am a Lead Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Evangeline F. Y. Young. Previously, I obtained my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong in 2019. My research interests lie primarily in the area of VLSI Physical design, to be more specific, floorplanning, placement, and routing.
[J3] Fangzhou Wang, Jinwei Liu, Jinwei Liu, Wing Ho Lau, Haocheng Li, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "FastPass: A Fast Pin Access Analysis Framework for Detailed Routability Enhancement", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD).
[J2] Bentian Jiang*, Jingsong Chen*, Jinwei Liu, Lixin Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Xiaopeng Zhang, and Evangeline F.Y. Young, "CU.POKer: Placing DNNs on WSE with Optimal Kernel Sizing and Efficient Protocol Optimization", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Volume: 41, Issue: 6, June 2022.
[J1] Itai Feigenbaum, Minming Li, Jay Sethuraman, Fangzhou Wang, Shaokun Zou, "Strategic facility location problems with linear single-dipped and single-peaked preferences", Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 34, no. 2 (2020): 1-47.
[C10] Tianji Liu, Qijing Wang, Lixin Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Evangeline F.Y. Young, “On Advanced Methodologies for Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration”, Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Tampa Bay Area, FL, USA, June 12-14, 2024.
[C9] Qin Luo, Xinshi Zang, Qijing Wang, Fangzhou Wang, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Martin D.F. Wong, “A Routability-Driven Ultrascale FPGA Macro Placer with Complex Design Constraints”, The 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), Orlando, FL, USA, May 5-8, 2024.
[C8] Wei Li, Fangzhou Wang, Jose Moura, Shawn Blanton “Global floorplanning via semidefinite programming”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, July 9-13, 2023.
[C7] Shixiong Kai, Chak-Wa Pui, Fangzhou Wang, Jiang Shougao, Bin Wang, Yu Huang and Jianye Hao, "TOFU: A Two-Step Floorplan Refinement Framework for Whitespace Reduction'', IEEE/ACM Proceedings Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Antwerp, Belgium, April 17 - 19, 2023.
[C6] Fangzhou Wang, Qijing Wang, Bangqi Fu, Shui Jiang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Lilas Alrahis, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Johann Knechtel, Tsung-Yi Ho, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Security Closure of IC Layouts Against Hardware Trojans", ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Virtual Conference, March 26-29, 2023. [preprint]
[C5] Fangzhou Wang, Jinwei Liu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "FastPass: Fast Pin Access Analysis with Incremental SAT Solving", ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Virtual Conference, March 26-29, 2023. (Best Paper Award) [preprint]
[C4] Xinshi Zang, Fangzhou Wang, Jinwei Liu, Martin D.F. Wong, "ATLAS: A Two-Level Layer-Aware Scheme for Routing with Cell Movement", The 41th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Diego, CA, USA, Oct. 30 - Nov. 4, 2022. [preprint]
[C3] Fangzhou Wang, Lixin Liu, Jingsong Chen, Jinwei Liu, Xinshi Zang, Martin D.F. Wong, "Starfish: An Efficient P&R Co-Optimization Engine with A*-based Partial Rerouting", The 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Munich, Germany, Nov. 1-4, 2021. [preprint]
[C2] Bentian Jiang*, Jingsong Chen*, Jinwei Liu, Lixin Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "CU. POKer: Placing DNNs on Wafer-Scale Al Accelerator with Optimal Kernel Sizing", The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Diego, CA, USA, Nov. 2-5, 2020.
[C1] Jinwei Liu, Chak-Wa Pui, Fangzhou Wang, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "CUGR: Detailed-Routability-Driven 3D Global Routing with Probabilistic Resource Model", ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA, Jul. 19-23, 2020.
"Towards Better Physical Layout Routability and Security", Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023. [pdf]
3rd Place Award in MLCAD 2023 FPGA Macro-Placement Contest, 2023
HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund – Reaching Out Award, 2023
ISPD 2023 Best Paper Award, 2023
3rd Place Award in ISPD 2023 Contest on 'Advanced Security Closure of Physical Layouts ', 2023
2nd Place Award in ICCAD 2022 Contest on 'Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration', 2022
3rd Place Award in ISPD 2022 Contest on 'Security Closure of Physical Layouts ', 2022
The Hong Kong, China - Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Scholarship, 2021
2nd Place Award in ICCAD 2021 Contest on 'Routing with Cell Movement Advanced', 2021
1st Place Award in ICCAD 2020 Contest on 'Routing with Cell Movement', 2020
DAC Young Fellow Award, 2020 (certificate)
1st Place Award in ISPD 2020 Contest on 'Wafer-Scale Deep Learning Accelerator Placement ', 2020
1st Place Award in ICCAD 2019 Contest on 'LEF/DEF Based Open-Source Global Router', 2019
Full Postgraduate Studentship at CUHK, 2019 - 2023
The Department of Computer Science Outstanding Student Scholarship, 2019
The College of Engineering Dean’s Scholarship (no more than 5 out of 3000+), 2019
HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund – Talent Development Scholarship, 2019 - 2023
Bronze Medal in the 2018 ACM-ICPC Asia Regional (Xuzhou), 2018
Silver Award in the 2018 ACM-ICPC China Multi-Provincial Collegiate Programming Contest, 2018
Country Level Third Prize in 2017 TCS CodeVita Coding Competition, 2018
CityU Full Tuition Scholarship, 2015 - 2019
Dean′s List of College of Engineering of CityU, 2015 - 2019
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Sep. 2023 - Now, Austin, TX, USA
Software Engineering Intern, @Cadence Design System
Sep. 2022 - Feb. 2023, Austin, TX, USA
Research Intern, @Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
Sep. 2021 - Jan. 2022, HKSAR
Full-time Research Assistant @CityU
Supervised by Prof. Henry XU
On machine learning system
June 2018 - Aug. 2018, HKSAR
Assistant Analyst Programmer @HKEx
On market data processing
Aug. 2017 - May 2018, HKSAR
CUGR [C1]
IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
Integration, the VLSI Journal
Microelectronics Journal, Elsevier
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
ACM/IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)
ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI)
2020-2021 Fall ENGG1110 Problem Solving By Programming @ CUHK
2019-2020 Spring CSCI1520 Computer Principles and C++ Programming @ CUHK
2019-2020 Fall CSCI1120A Introduction to Computing Using C++ @ CUHK
2018-2019 Fall CS3391 Advanced Programming @ CityU
2017-2018 Fall CS3334 Data Structure @ CityU