Tianji Liu is an Assistant Professor at the
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He received his Ph.D. degree from
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
under the supervision of
Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young.
His research interests are parallel and efficient algorithms for logic synthesis
and verification.
Selected Awards and Honors
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First Place in ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD, 2025.
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Best Paper Award Nomination, 44th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2025.
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Best Paper Award, 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2024.
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Best Paper Award Nomination, 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2023.
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DAC Young Fellow, 2023 & 2024.
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Outstanding Tutor Award & Best TA Award, Faculty of Engineering & Department of CSE, CUHK, 2022.
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Second Place in CAD Contest at ICCAD on "Logic Gate Sizing Using ML Techniques and GPU Acceleration", 2024.
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Second Place in CAD Contest at ICCAD on "Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration", 2022.
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First Place in CAD Contest at ICCAD on "GPU-Accelerated Logic Rewriting", 2021.
Publications
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Tianji Liu, Nutdranai Jaruthikorn, Shiju Lin, Bentian Jiang, Guannan Guo, Weihua Sheng, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Efficient and Effective E-graph-based Logic Optimization", ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2025.
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Zhenxuan Xie, Lixin Liu, Tianji Liu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "ExactMap: Enhancing Delay Optimization in Parallel ASIC Technology Mapping", 44th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2025. (Best Paper Award Nomination)
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Tianji Liu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Simulation-based Parallel Sweeping: A New Perspective on Combinational Equivalence Checking", 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025. [paper] [slides] [executable] Metadata
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Tianji Liu, Yang Sun, Lei Chen, Xing Li, Mingxuan Yuan, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "A Unified Parallel Framework for LUT Mapping and Logic Optimization", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2024. [executable]
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Yang Sun*, Tianji Liu*, Martin D.F. Wong, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Massively Parallel AIG Resubstitution", 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2024. [code] [paper] [slides]
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Tianji Liu, Qijing Wang, Lixin Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "On Advanced Methodologies for Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration", Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2024. [paper]
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Lixin Liu, Tianji Liu, Bentian Jiang, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Parmesan: Efficient Partitioning and Mapping Flow for DNN Training on General Device Topology", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2024.
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Tianji Liu, Lei Chen, Xing Li, Mingxuan Yuan, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "FineMap: A Fine-grained GPU-parallel LUT Mapping Engine", 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2024. (Best Paper Award) [paper] [updated results] [slides] [executable]
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Tianji Liu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Rethinking AIG Resynthesis in Parallel", 60th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023. (Best Paper Award Nomination) [code] [paper] [updated results] [slides]
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Shiju Lin, Jinwei Liu, Tianji Liu, Martin D.F. Wong, Evangeline F.Y. Young, "NovelRewrite: Node-Level Parallel AIG Rewriting", 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2022. [code]
Updated on Jan 17, 2026.
