Zizheng's team won the First Place in the 2024 ICCAD CAD contest (Problem C)

Yufan Du and Zizheng Guo have won the first place in the 2024 ICCAD CAD contest, advised by Prof. Yibo Lin, for their outstanding work on Problem C: Scalable Logic Gate Sizing Using ML Techniques and GPU Acceleration.

The CAD Contest at ICCAD is a challenging, multi-month, research and development competition, focusing on advanced, real-world problems in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA). It is open to multi-person teams world-wide. Each year the organizing committee announce three challenging problems in different topic areas provided by industrial companies. Contestants can participate in one or more problems. The prizes will be awarded at an ICCAD special session dedicated to this contest.

Since its inaugural year of 2012, the CAD Contest at ICCAD has been attracting more than a hundred teams per year, fostering productive industry-academia collaborations, and leading to hundreds of publications in top-tier conferences and journals. The contest undoubtedly boosts EDA research and keeps enhancing its impact.

Cheers and thanks to all team members and advisors!