About Me

Hello! I'm Yugao Zhu (朱余高), a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Prof. Zhiyao Xie.

My research lies in hypergraph partitioning — developing efficient, scalable algorithms and frameworks for large-scale system design automation. I also maintain an active interest in large language models (LLMs).

Prior to HKUST, I received my Bachelor's degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University.

🔥News

  • 2026-02 Two papers accepted to DAC 2026 🎉
  • 2026-01 Two papers accepted to TCAD 2026

📄Publications

* denotes corresponding author.

DAC '26
IMPart: Integration of Memetic Operations into Multi-Level Framework for Large-k-Way Hypergraph Partitioning
Yugao Zhu, Zhicheng Guo, Shang Liu, Mengming Li, Jing Wang, and Zhiyao Xie*
DAC '26
ComPart: Community-Guided Post-Coarsening for High-Quality Hypergraph Partitioning
Yugao Zhu, Zhicheng Guo, Yuchao Wu, Mengming Li, Jing Wang, and Zhiyao Xie*
TCAD '26
MFSPart: A Generalized Partitioning Framework for Multi-FPGA Systems and Its Ensemble-Based Extension
Yugao Zhu, Wenji Fang, Yao Lu, Shang Liu, Yanzhen Zhu, Qijun Zhang, and Zhiyao Xie*
TCAD '26
A Self-Supervised and Cross-Design Netlist Power Model for Time-Based Layout Power Analysis
Wenkai Li, Yao Lu, Wenji Fang, Yugao Zhu, Ziyan Guo, Jing Wang, Mengming Li, Qijun Zhang, and Zhiyao Xie*