CV
General Information
Full Name | Yaotian Liu |
Languages | Mandarin, English |
Education
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2023/08 - Now
PhD in Computer Engineering
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, US
- GPA: 4.0/4.0
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2019~2023
BE in Microelectronics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- GPA: 3.7/4.3. Rank: 19/67
- Outstanding Graduates
- SJTU Undergraduate Scholarship
Work Experience
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2022/07 - 2022/09
2023/03 - 2023/06Digital IC Design Intern
Taize Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China
- Developed the micro-architecture for the data link layer of the company's proprietary inter-chip connection, supporting 1024 chips. Co-author of a related patent. The design has been successfully taped out using TSMC 16 nm.
- Developed an accelerator for elliptic curve accumulation in Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC).
Research Experience
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2023/08 - Now
Research Assistant
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, US
- Skip-SCAR: Hardware-Friendly High-Quality Embodied Visual Navigation, in submission to ICRA 2025.
- Lead of Intel 16 nm tape out projects, in charge of the design, verification and backend flow.
- LLM-VeriPPA
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2023
Final Year Project
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- Implemented a functional ECO system with a Verilg parser written in PEG grammar, accepted by AICAS 2023.
- An ABC-based algorithm for efficient circuit pruning by removing functionally equivalent sub-circuits, which increase the performance of functional ECO.
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2022/05 - 2022/09
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- Implemented a reinforcement learning algorithm for automatically stock trading.
- Reproduced an baseline algorithm ytliu74/FactorVAE from AAAI 2022.
Open Source Projects
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2023 - now
obsidian-pseudocode
- An Obsidian plugin that renders LaTeX-style pseudocode in a code block, offering various auxiliary features.