Fangzhou WANG (汪方舟)

Lead Software Engineer

Cadence Design Systems

B.Sc.(CityU), Ph.D.(CUHK)

Email: wfz0755 AT gmail.com

Resume/CV (updated March 17, 2026)

Biography

I am a Lead Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems, focusing on pre-route global routing engine research and development. 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 VLSI physical design, especially floorplanning, placement and routing.

Publications ()

Journal Paper

• [J5] Fangzhou Wang, Qijing Wang, Lilas Alrahis, Bangqi Fu, Shui Jiang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Tsung-Yi Ho, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Johann Knechtel, "Trolloc: Logic locking and layout hardening for IC security closure against hardware trojans", accepted by Journal of Hardware and Systems Security.

• [J4] Johann Knechtel, et al., "Trojan Insertion versus Layout Defenses for Modern ICs: Red-versus-Blue Teaming in a Competitive Community Effort", accepted by IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems.

• [J3] Fangzhou Wang, 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.

Conference Papers

• [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.

Miscellaneous

• "Towards Better Physical Layout Routability and Security", Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023. [pdf]

Selected Honors & Awards

• 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

Experiences

Lead Software Engineer, NanoRoute Team, @Cadence Design Systems

• Focus: pre-route global routing engine research and development

• Sep. 2023 - Now, Austin, TX, USA

Software Engineering Intern, NanoRoute Team, @Cadence Design Systems

• Sep. 2022 - Feb. 2023, Austin, TX, USA

Research Intern, Decision Making & Reasoning Lab@Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab

• Sep. 2021 - Jan. 2022, HKSAR

Full-time Research Assistant @CityU

• Supervised by Prof. Henry XU

• Topic: scheduling for distributed DNN training

• June 2018 - Aug. 2018, HKSAR

Assistant Analyst Programmer @HKEx

• Aug. 2017 - May 2018, HKSAR

Conference Presentations

• ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2024

• ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), 2023

• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2021

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, Tcl

• Toolkits & Tools: PyTorch, Git, LaTeX, Perforce, Cursor

• Languages: Mandarin (native), English (fluent), Cantonese (fluent), Japanese (beginner)

Open Source

• CUGR [C1]

Reviewer / External Reviewer

• 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)

• IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC)

Teaching

• 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

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