Biography
Yangdi Lyu is an Assistant Professor in the Thrust of Microelectronics of the Function Hub at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China. He received his B.E. from Tsinghua University in 2011, and Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2020. Prior to joining HKUST(GZ), Dr. Lyu worked at Google as a software engineer in California, USA. He has 40+ publications in peer-reviewed journals and premier conferences, and 5 patents.
Research Areas
Build next-generation automated tools to design reliable microchips by integrating EDA, hardware verification, and frontier AI
Automated Testing & Verification
Concolic testing, fuzzing, and machine learning-driven approaches to detect bugs and vulnerabilities in RTL simulators and processor implementations.
LLM-Guided RTL Generation
Leveraging Large Language Models to automate the synthesis, completion, and correction of Hardware Description Languages (HDL).
HW/SW Co-design
Optimizing computing architectures and hardware accelerators to meet strict energy, efficiency, and real-time constraints in edge computing.