I am a Ph.D. candidate in Duke ECE Department under the supervision of Prof. Yiran Chen and Prof. Hai “Helen” Li. My research interests include ML systems, AI compiler, and Quantum Design Automation.

📖 Educations

• 2022.08 - Present, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering @ Duke University, Durham, NC, US.
• 2019.08 - 2021.05, M.S. in Electrical Engineering @ University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US.

💻 Experiences

• 2025.05 - 2025.12, Research Intern in Eigen AI, Palo Alto, CA, US.
• 2025.01 - 2025.05, Research Intern in Google, Sunnyvale, CA, US.
• 2024.06 - 2024.08, Research Intern in Accenture Cybersecurity Lab, Washington, D.C., US.
• 2023.06 - 2023.08, Research Intern in Accenture Cybersecurity Lab, Washington, D.C., US.
• 2022.03 - 2022.07, R&D Engineering in Synopsys Inc. (Zebu), Mountain View, CA, US.
• 2021.07 - 2022.03, R&D Engineering in Synopsys Inc. (PrimeTime), Mountain View, CA, US.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2026 - Best Paper Candidate (HPCA)
• 2025 - Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards (Duke ECE Graduate Program)
• 2025 - Best Paper Candidate (DATE)
• 2023 - 1st Place of ACM/IEEE Quantum Computing for Drug Discovery Challenge (1/50).
• 2021 - Master Students Honor Program, University of Southern California.

📝 Publications

• Selected Publications

  • HPCA 2026 (Best Paper Candidate) Chiyue Wei, Cong Guo, Junyao Zhang, Haoxuan Shan, Yifan Xu, Ziyue Zhang, Yudong Liu, Qinsi Wang, Changchun Zhou, Hai “Helen” Li, Yiran Chen. Focus: A Streaming Concentration Architecture for Efficient Vision-Language Models. IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2026

  • ISCA 2025 Feng Cheng, Cong Guo, Chiyue Wei, Junyao Zhang, Changchun Zhou, Edward Hanson, Jiaqi Zhang, Xiaoxiao Liu, Hai “Helen” Li, Yiran Chen. “Ecco: Improving Memory Bandwidth and Capacity for LLMs via Entropy-Aware Cache Compression”. ACM/IEEE 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2025

  • ISCA 2025 Junyao Zhang, Hanrui Wang, Qi Ding, Jiaqi Gu, Reouven Assouly, William D. Oliver, Song Han, Kenneth R. Brown, Hai “Helen” Li, Yiran Chen. “QPlacer: Frequency-Aware Placement for Superconducting Quantum Computers”. ACM/IEEE 52nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2025

  • DATE 2025 (Best Paper Candidate) Junyao Zhang, Guanglei Zhou, Feng Cheng, Jonathan Hao-Cheng Ku, Qi Ding, Jiaqi Gu, Hanrui Wang, Hai “Helen” Li, Yiran Chen. “qGDP: Quantum Legalization and Detailed Placement for Superconducting Quantum Computers”. Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2025

  • DAC 2024 Jonathan Ku, Junyao Zhang, Haoxuan Shan, Saichand Samudrala, Jiawen Wu, Qilin Zheng, Ziru Li, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Yiran Chen. “ModSRAM: Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Large Number Modular Multiplication in SRAM”. Proceedings of the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2024

  • QCE 2023 Junyao Zhang, Hanrui Wang, Gokul Subramanian Ravi, Frederic T. Chong, Song Han, Frank Mueller, Yiran Chen. “DISQ: Dynamic Iteration Skipping for Variational Quantum Algorithms”. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2023

  • AAMAS 2021 Mingxi Cheng, Junyao Zhang, Chenzhong Yin, Shahin Nazarian, Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Paul Bogdan. “A General Trust Framework for Multi-Agent Systems”. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS), 2021

  • IV 2021 Mingxi Cheng, Junyao Zhang, Shahin Nazarian, Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Paul Bogdan. “Trust-Aware Control for Intelligent Transportation Systems” IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2021

• Additional Publications

  • Survey “A Survey: Collaborative Hardware and Software Design in the Era of Large Language Models”. IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine (CASM)

  • ASPDAC 2026 Haoxuan Shan, Cong Guo, Chiyue Wei, Feng Cheng, Junyao Zhang, Hai “Helen” Li, Yiran Chen. “Platinum: Path-Adaptable LUT-Based Accelerator Tailored for Low-Bit Weight Matrix Multiplication” Proceedings of the 31th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2026

  • ICCAD 2025 Guanglei Zhou, Chen-Chia Chang, Junyao Zhang, Jingyu Pan, Yiran Chen. “Diffusion-Model-Enhanced Layout Pattern Generation for Sub 3nm DFM”. Proceedings of the 44rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2025 (INVITED PAPER)

  • GLSVLSI 2025 Feng Cheng, Tunhou Zhang, Junyao Zhang, Jonathan Ku, Yitu Wang, Xiaoxuan Yang, Yiran Chen. “AutoRAC: Automated Processing-in-Memory Accelerator Design for Recommender Systems”. Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2025

  • SPIE 2025 Guanglei Zhou, Bhargav Korrapati, Gaurav Rajavendra Reddy, Junyao Zhang, Yiran Chen, Dipto G Thakurta. “Vario: enhance pattern diversity with diffusion model”. DTCO and Computational Patterning IV, 2025

  • ISQED 2025 Arjun Sridhar, Chen-Chia Chang, Junyao Zhang, Yiran Chen. “Improving Routability Prediction via NAS Using a Smooth One-shot Augmented Predictor”. 26th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2025

👔 Academic Service

• Journal Reviewer

  • Quantum
  • ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC)
  • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
  • IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI)

• Conference Service

  • Program Committee Member
    • IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE 2025)
  • Artifact Evaluation Committee Member
    • IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2026)
    • USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2025)
    • USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2025)