Shiju Lin

Assistant Professor
Thrust of Microelectronics
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

shijulin[at]hkust-gz.edu.cn

I am actively seeking self-motivated PhD students and research assistants to work on Electronic Design Automation. If you're interested, please feel free to email me.

2026

• ICCAD
  Yewei Wang, Fangyao Chen and Shiju Lin
  Multibit Flip-Flop Banking via Compact Placement and Iterative Matching
• DATE
  Zhuofan Lin and Shiju Lin
  GPU-Accelerated Efficient Transduction for Logic Optimization [pdf][code]

2024

• ICCAD
  Shiju Lin, Liang Xiao, Jinwei Liu and Evangeline Young
  InstantGR: Scalable GPU Parallelization for Global Routing [pdf][code]
• DAC
  Shiju Lin, Guannan Guo, Tsung-Wei Huang, Weihua Sheng, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Martin D.F. Wong
  GCS-Timer: GPU-Accelerated Current Source Model Based Static Timing Analysis [pdf][code]
• DAC
  Shiju Lin, Bentian Jiang, Weihua Sheng and Evangeline F.Y. Young
  Size-Optimized Depth-Constrained Large Parallel Prefix Circuits [pdf]

2023

• TCAD
  Shiju Lin, Jinwei Liu, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Martin D.F. Wong
  GAMER: GPU-Accelerated Maze Routing [pdf] [code]

2022

• ICCAD
  Shiju Lin and Martin D.F. Wong
  Superfast Full-Scale GPU-Accelerated Global Routing [pdf] [code]
• DAC
  Shiju Lin, Jinwei Liu, Tianji Liu, Martin D.F. Wong and Evangeline F.Y. Young
  NovelRewrite: Node-Level Parallel AIG Rewriting [pdf][code]

2021

• ICCAD
  Shiju Lin, Jinwei Liu and Martin D.F. Wong
  GAMER: GPU Accelerated Maze Routing [pdf] [code]

Graduate
First Place (special-honor track) / Second Place (main track)	ISPD Contest	2024
First Place [certificate][link]	CAD Contest at ICCAD	2021
Outstanding Tutors Award	CUHK	2021
Best Teaching Assistant Award	CUHK	2021
Undergraduate
National Scholarship (×2)	China	2018, 2019
Gold Medal	ICPC Asia-East Continent Final	2019
Gold Medal	ICPC Asia Regional Contest (Nanjing)	2018
Gold Medal (×2)	China Collegiate Programming Contest (Harbin and Xiamen)	2019

Professional Services

Technical Program Committee Memberships

• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2025, 2026
• ACM/IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2026
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2026
• International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2026
• ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2025, 2026

Teaching

• UFUG 2106 Discrete Mathematics, Spring 2026, Fall 2026
• MICS 6002C CUDA Programming, Fall 2025

Students

PhD Students

• Zhuofan Lin (Spring 2026–Present)
• Feiyang Liu (Fall 2025–Present)
• Yewei Wang (Fall 2025–Present)

MPhil Student

• Hairui Zhang (Fall 2025–Present)