Yiming Du

Fudan Institute of Systems for Advanced Computing (FiSAC)

Fudan University

Shanghai, China

iiamadoga@163.com

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at Fudan University, affiliated with the Fudan Institute of Systems for Advanced Computing (FiSAC). I am advised by Prof. Tao Xie and Asst. Prof. Chen Bai. My research interests lie in AI for EDA, with a focus on digital back-end design automation and analog circuit design.

My recent research focuses on intelligent methods for electronic design automation, including agent-based physical design flows, LLM-assisted macro placement optimization, and AI-EDA methods for analog front-end flow optimization.

Before joining Fudan University, I worked as a jointly trained graduate student at the School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University from 2024 to 2026, where I was advised by Assistant Researcher Ling Liang and co-advised by Professor Yimao Cai. I received my M.Eng. degree in Integrated Circuit Engineering from Anhui University in 2026.

Research Interests

AI for EDA and LLM-assisted chip design automation
Macro placement, physical design, and timing closure
Analog design intelligence and automated design flows

Contact

Primary email: iiamadoga@163.com
Secondary email: yimingdu71@gmail.com
GitHub: Du1ming

selected publications

MLCAD

From Tool Invocation to Source-Mechanism Exploration: Protected White-Box DSE for Open-Source EDA

Zhiyu Zheng , Yiming Du , Ziyi Wang, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM/IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD, 2026

Accepted

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@inproceedings{zheng2026reviewdse,
  title = {From Tool Invocation to Source-Mechanism Exploration: Protected White-Box {DSE} for Open-Source {EDA}},
  author = {Zheng, Zhiyu and Du, Yiming and Wang, Ziyi and Wang, Zhiang},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 ACM/IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Accepted},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.AR},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11294},
}

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CHIP-MAP: A Collaborative Optimization Framework for Macro Placement Using Large Language Models

Yiming Du , RenYe Yan , Yunfan Yang, and 7 more authors

In Proceedings of the 2026 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference, 2026

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@inproceedings{du2026chipmap,
  title = {{CHIP-MAP}: A Collaborative Optimization Framework for Macro Placement Using Large Language Models},
  author = {Du, Yiming and Yan, RenYe and Yang, Yunfan and Qu, Frank and Tan, Jiajun and Zheng, Zhiyu and Gan, Yiming and Liang, Ling and Wang, Zongwei and Cai, Yimao},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Design, Automation \& Test in Europe Conference},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.23919/DATE69613.2026.11539734},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11539734},
}

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SONIC: Smart Optimization for Neural-Integrated CMP with Timing-Aware Fills

Jiajun Tan , Qichao Ma , Yiming Du, and 6 more authors

In Proceedings of the 2026 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference, 2026

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@inproceedings{tan2026sonic,
  title = {{SONIC}: Smart Optimization for Neural-Integrated CMP with Timing-Aware Fills},
  author = {Tan, Jiajun and Ma, Qichao and Du, Yiming and Gan, Yiming and Liang, Ling and Lin, Yibo and Zhu, Ming and Wang, Zongwei and Cai, Yimao},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Design, Automation \& Test in Europe Conference},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.23919/DATE69613.2026.11539303},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11539303},
}