CV

General Information

Full Name Yaotian Liu
Languages Mandarin, English

Education

  • 2023/08 - Now
    PhD in Computer Engineering
    Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, US
    • GPA: 4.0/4.0
  • 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

  • 2022/07 - 2022/09
    2023/03 - 2023/06
    Digital 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

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 2023 - now
    obsidian-pseudocode
    • An Obsidian plugin that renders LaTeX-style pseudocode in a code block, offering various auxiliary features.