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
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DAC '26
IMPart: Integration of Memetic Operations into Multi-Level Framework for Large-k-Way Hypergraph Partitioning
DAC '26
ComPart: Community-Guided Post-Coarsening for High-Quality Hypergraph Partitioning
TCAD '26
MFSPart: A Generalized Partitioning Framework for Multi-FPGA Systems and Its Ensemble-Based Extension
TCAD '26
A Self-Supervised and Cross-Design Netlist Power Model for Time-Based Layout Power Analysis