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Zhiyao
XIE
謝 知 遙

PhD in Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor
Room 2437
(852) 3469 2959
(852) 2358 1485
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Research Area
Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICS)
Data Science and AI (DSAI)
Research Interests
Electronic Design Automation
Machine Learning
VLSI Design
Computer Architecture
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Ph.D., Duke University

Prof. Zhiyao Xie’s research focuses on AI-assisted electronic design automation (EDA) and chip design methodologies. He completed his Ph.D. at Duke University in 2022, following his B.Eng from CityU HK in 2017 with a full scholarship & first-class honors. Zhiyao also interned at NVIDIA, Arm, Cadence, and Synopsys.

Zhiyao has received multiple prestigious awards, including the RGC HK Early Career Award 2023 (7 out of 525), ACM Outstanding Dissertation Award in EDA 2023 (1 awardee per year), EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award 2023 (4 awardees per year), MICRO 2021 Best Paper Award (1st-author, 1 out of 430), ASP-DAC 2023 Best Paper Award (2 out of 328), WAIC Yufan Award (Brilliant Star) 2023, ACM SIGDA SRF 2022 Best Research Poster Award, and 4 more best paper nominations. He also received Faculty Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award 2023/24 for his computer architecture course.