Xiao Linfu

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, CHINA

Office: SHB 506
Email: lfxiao  at  (cse cuhk edu hk)

Biography:

I got the Bachelor degree in MicroElectronics Department from Fudan University in July 2007, then I came to The Chinese University of Hong Kong, studying under the supervision of Prof. Evangeline F. Y. Young, and currently I am pursueing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Research area:

VLSI CAD, Floorplan, Placement, Routing, Analog Layout Automation

Publications:

- Conference:

Linfu Xiao and Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Analog Placement with Common Centroid and 1-D Symmetry Constraints", Proceedings IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference. (ASPDAC 2009) [PDF, PPT] - best paper nomination (14 out of 355).

Linfu Xiao and Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Analog Placement with Common Centroid and 1-D Symmetry Constraints", International PhD Student Workshop on SOC. Taiwan, (IPS 2009).

[PDF, PPT]

Linfu Xiao, Subarna Sinha, Jingyu Xu and Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Fixed-outline Thermal-aware 3D Floorplanning", Proceedings IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, (ASPDAC 2010).

[PDF, PPT]

Linfu Xiao, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Xiaoyong He and K.P. Pun, "Practical Placement and Routing Techniques for Analog Circuit Designs", Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, (ICCAD 2010).

[PDF, PPT]

Linfu Xiao, Zigang Xiao, Zaichen Qian, Yan Jiang, Tao Huang, Haitong Tian and Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Local Clock Skew Minimization Using Blockage-aware Mixed Tree-Mesh Clock Network", Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, (ICCAD 2010).

[PDF, PPT]

- Journal:

Qiang Ma, Linfu Xiao, Yiu-cheong Tam and Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Simultaneous Handling of Symmetry, Common Centroid and General Placement Constraints", IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. To appear.

Huang Hui-ping, Luk Wai-shing, Linfu Xiao and Zhao Wen-qing, "Realization and Application of Fast Dynamic Priority Search Tree", Computer Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 10, pp 40-43, 2009 (In Chinese)

Awards:

1st place of ISPD 2011 Routability-Driven Placement Contest

2nd place of ISPD 2010 Clock Network Synthesis Contest

Teaching Assistant:

2009 Fall: CSC3130 Formal Language & Automata Theory by Prof. Andrej Bogdanov

2010 Spring: CSC2100C Data Structures by Prof. Yufei Tao

2010 Fall: CSCI3190 Introduction to Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms by Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young

2011 Spring: CENG5270 CAD for Physical Design of Digital Systems by Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young

Courses taken at CUHK:

2007 Fall
(CSC5280) Computer Vision by Prof. Leo Jiaya Jia (intersting course)
(CEG5330) Logic Synthesis Testing by Prof. David Y.L. Wu & Prof. Qiang Xu (fundamental course)
2008 Spring
(CEG5270) CAD for Physical Design of Digital System, by Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young (supervisor's course)
(CSC5160) Topics in Algorithm by Prof. Lap Chi Lau (challenging course)

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