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Wei LiPhD Candidate E-mail: werry715@gmail.com
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About
Wei Li (Neway) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University,
advised by Prof. Shawn Blanton
and Prof. José Moura.
His research is driven by a vision of End-to-End Autonomous EDA, aiming to shift the human role from active "in-the-loop" intervention
to strategic "on-the-loop" supervision.
To realize this, his work integrates multi-modal LLMs to perceive design context,
differentiable optimization for high-performance sub-tasks,
and hardware testing to anchor AI-driven synthesis in physical silicon reality.
Wei is a recipient of the Apple PhD Fellowship in Integrated Systems (2022, 2024)
and the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (2024).
His research has been recognized with Best Paper Awards at ASP-DAC (2021), ISSTA (2019), and ICTAI (2019),
along with a Best Paper Honorable Mention at ICLAD (2025).
His contributions deliver proven industrial impact, with algorithms integrated into Apple's industrial physical design flows
and a joint patent filing with NVIDIA for differentiable global routing.
Looking forward, Wei is committed to establishing the iDAT Lab to pioneer the next generation of intelligent design automation and testing.
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