Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Email: jiangbentian[at]gmail.com
I obtained my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2021. My advisor was Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young. Before that, I received my Bachelor Degree of Electronic & Information Engineering from Sichuan University (SCU). My research interests include datapath (computer arithmetic) optimization, RTL compilation, physical design and design for manufacturability in VLSI CAD (EDA).
US patents (3), IEEE TCAD (CCF-A, 4), DAC (CCF-A, 4), ICCAD (CCF-B, 3), ASP-DAC (CCF-C, 2), ISPD (CCF-C, 1).
[J4] Lixin Liu, Tianji Liu, Bentian Jiang, Evangeline FY Young, “Parmesan: Efficient Partitioning and Mapping Flow for DNN Training on General Device Topology”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Volume: 43, Issue: 8, August 2024.
[J3] Bentian Jiang, Xinshi Zang, Martin D.F. Wong and Evangeline F.Y. Young, “Exploring Rule-free Layout Decomposition via Deep Reinforcement Learning”, accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Volume: 42, Issue: 9, September 2023.
[J2] Bentian Jiang, Lixin Liu, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, and Evangeline F.Y. Young, “Neural-ILT 2.0: Migrating ILT to Domain-specific and Multi-task-enabled Neural Network”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Volume: 41, Issue: 8, August 2022. [code]
[J1] 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.
[C10] Lin Shiju, Bentian Jiang, Weihua Sheng, and Evangeline Young, “Size-Optimized Depth-Constrained Large Parallel Prefix Circuits”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, July, 2024.
[C9] Qijing Wang, Bentian Jiang, Martin D.F. Wong and Evangeline F.Y. Young, “A2-ILT: GPU Accelerated ILT with Spatial Attention Mechanism”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, July 10-14, 2022.
[C8] Jinwei Liu, Xiaopeng Zhang, Shiju Lin, Xinshi Zang, Jingsong Chen, Bentian Jiang, Martin D.F. Wong and Evangeline F.Y. Young, “Partition and Place Finite Element Model on Wafer Scale Engine”, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, July 10-14, 2022.
[C7] Bentian Jiang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Lixin Liu and Evangeline F.Y. Young, “Building up End-to-end Mask Optimization Framework with Self-training”, ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), Virtual Conference, March 21-24, 2021. [slides]
[C6] Bentian Jiang, Lixin Liu, Yuzhe Ma, Hang Zhang, Bei Yu and Evangeline F.Y. Young, “Neural-ILT: Migrating ILT to Neural Networks for Mask Printability and Complexity Co-optimization”, The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Virtual Conference, Nov. 2-5, 2020. [slides] [code]
[C5] Bentian Jiang*, Jingsong Chen*, Jinwei Liu, Lixin Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Evangeline F.Y. Young, “CU.POKer: Placing DNNs on Wafer-Scale AI Accelerator with Optimal Kernel Sizing”, The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Virtual Conference, Nov. 2-5, 2020 (* co-first authors). [slides]
[C4] Haocheng Li, Gengjie Chen, Bentian Jiang, Jingsong Chen, and Evangeline F.Y. Young, “Dr. CU 2.0: A Scalable Detailed Routing Framework with Correct-by-Construction Design Rule Satisfaction”, The 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Westminster, CO, USA, Nov. 4-7, 2019. [slides] [code]
[C3] Bentian Jiang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Ran Chen, Gengjie Chen, Peishan Tu, Wei Li, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Bei Yu, “FIT: Fill Insertion Considering Timing”, The 56th Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 24–29, 2019. [slides] [poster]
[C2] Bentian Jiang, Hang Zhang, Jinglei Yang and Evangeline F.Y. Young, “A Fast Machine Learning-based Mask Printability Predictor for OPC Acceleration”, IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Tokyo, Japan, Jan 21-24, 2019. [slides]
[C1] Gengjie Chen, Chak-Wa Pui, Haocheng Li, Jingsong Chen, Bentian Jiang, Evangeline F.Y. Young, “Dr. CU: Detailed Routing by Sparse Grid Graph and Minimum-Area-Captured Path Search”, IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), Tokyo, Japan, Jan 21-24, 2019. [slides] [code]
[P3] Bentian Jiang, Natarajan Viswanathan, Zhuo Li, and Yi-Xiao Ding. “Machine-learning based clustering for clock tree synthesis”, U.S. Patent 11,645,441, issued May 09, 2023.
[P2] Bentian Jiang, Natarajan Viswanathan, Zhuo Li, and Yi-Xiao Ding. “Machine-learning based prediction method for iterative clustering during clock tree synthesis”, U.S. Patent 11,244,099, issued February 08, 2022.
[P1] Bentian Jiang, Natarajan Viswanathan, William Robert Reece, and Zhuo Li. “Dynamic weighting scheme for local cluster refinement”, U.S. Patent 11,188,702, issued November 30, 2021.
Dr. CU [C1] [C4] (Evaluator of ICCAD 2019 Global Routing Contest)
Neural-ILT [C6] [J2]
Talent Development Scholarship | HKSAR GSF | 2021 | ||||||||
DAC Young Fellow Award | DAC | 2020 | ||||||||
First Place Award at Contest on 'Wafer-Scale Deep Learning Accelerator Placement’ | ISPD | 2020 | ||||||||
First Place Award at Contest on 'Initial Detailed Routing’ | ISPD | 2019 | ||||||||
Second Place Award at Contest on 'Timing-aware Dummy Fill Insertion’ | ICCAD | 2018 | ||||||||
Second Place Award at Contest on 'Initial Detailed Routing’ | ISPD | 2018 | ||||||||
Full Postgraduate Studentship | CUHK | 2017-2021 | ||||||||
Excellent Graduate Award | SCU | 2017 | ||||||||
Principal Engineer | Huawei Hong Kong Research Center
On some interesting projects
Awardee of Individual Golden Medal Award (Highest individual award, Top 1%)
September 2021 – Now, Hong Kong SAR, CN
Software Engineer Intern | Cadence Design Systems
Clock Tree Synthesis Team of Innovus
Advisor: Dr. Natarajan Viswanathan
April 2019 – September 2019, Austin, TX, USA
Research Assistant | The Chinese University of Hong Kong
On fast lithographic hotspot detection
Advisor: Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young
March 2017 – May 2017, NT, Hong Kong SAR, CN
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2022
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
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC)
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD)
2020Spring: CENG4120 Computer-aided Design for Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits
2019Fall: CSCI3190 Introduction to Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms
2019Spring: CSCI1510 Computer Principles and C Programming
2018Fall: CSCI2510 Computer Organization
2018Spring: ENGG1110 Problem Solving By Programming