Ziyue Zheng

Ziyue Zheng


PhD Student

Microelectronics Thrust

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

zzheng989@connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn

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About
I am currently a PhD student in the Microelectronics Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), supervised by Prof. Yangdi Lyu. I received my MPhil in Microelectronics from HKUST(GZ) and my Bachelor's degree in Digital Media Technology from Xiamen University.

My research interests include:
  • EDA & Hardware Verification: Symbolic Execution, Concolic Testing, Hardware Simulation & Emulation, LLM-based Testing, SMT Solver, Model Checking, Hardware Security
  • Optimization & AI: Reinforcement Learning (Multi-agent), Meta-heuristic Optimization, Genetic Algorithm, LLM-driven EDA Optimization


News
  • 2026 Our paper on "Fine-Grained Code Analysis for Processor Fuzzing" is accepted in DATE 2026.
  • 2025 Our paper on "Hot-FV: A Semi-Formal Test Generation Framework for RTL Functional Coverage" is accepted in ICCD 2025.
  • 2025 Our paper on "DeepVerifier: Learning to Update Test Sequences for Coverage-Guided Verification" is accepted in TODAES 2025.
  • August 1, 2024 APE-FV is accepted in ICCD 2024.
  • May 23, 2024 My work on FlattenRTL is accepted in ISEDA 2024.
  • Nov 17, 2022 My work on RTL Validation is accepted in DATE 2023.

  • Selected Awards
    Third Place
    EDAthon 2025
    2025
    Bronze Medal
    ICT* LLM for Processor Chip Design Competition (CPU Microarchitecture)
    2025
    Bronze Medal
    ICT* LLM for Processor Chip Design Competition (PPA Optimization)
    2025
    China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling
    2019
    4th Place
    Malaysia National ACM-ICPC Programming Contest
    2019