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  1. SATLLM: A Sparsity-aware Accelerator for Ternary-Weight Large Language Models

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, September 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  2. Graph Neural Network based Initialization for Timing Driven Placement

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, April 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  3. Variation-aware Analog Circuit Design via Contextual Modeling and Robust Optimization

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  4. ChatArch: A Knowledge-driven Graph-of-thought LLM Framework for Processor Architecture Optimization

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  5. ActiveEye: Enabling Continuous and Responsive Video Understanding for Smart Eyewear Systems

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang, Runyu Wang

  6. Rethinking Logic Rewriting: Technology-Aware Subgraph Matching with Exact Synthesis

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  7. GTN-Path: Efficient Path Timing Prediction through Waveform Propagation with Graph Transformer

    Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Fan Yang

  8. AcclMT: A Highly Resource-Efficient and Flexible Poseidon Hash-Based Merkle Tree Architecture

    Article • June 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Fan Yang

  9. Hierarchical Integration of Reinforcement Learning and Optimization Algorithms for Time-Efficient Design Automation of Complex Analog Circuit

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Chen Bu, Fan Yang, Xingwei Feng

  10. TL-CSE: Microarchitecture-Compiler Co-design Space Exploration via Transfer Learning

    Article • January 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  11. Revisiting sensitivity-based analog sizing with derivative-aware Bayesian optimization and error-suppressed adjoint analysis

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang, Aidong Zhao

  12. FSMM: An Efficient Matrix Multiplication Accelerator Supporting Flexible Sparsity

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  13. Physically Aware Synthesis Revisited: Guiding Technology Mapping with Primitive Logic Gate Placement

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  14. AnalogGym: An Open and Practical Testing Suite for Analog Circuit Synthesis

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yanhan Zeng, Fan Yang, Yun Li

  15. The Power of Graph Signal Processing for Chip Placement Acceleration

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  16. PriorMSM: An Efficient Acceleration Architecture for Multi-Scalar Multiplication

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, August 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  17. Gypsophila: A Scalable and Bandwidth-Optimized Multi-Scalar Multiplication Architecture

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  18. Efficient ILT via Multigrid-Schwartz Method

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  19. HiMOSS: A Novel High-dimensional Multi-objective Optimization Method via Adaptive Gradient-Based Subspace Sampling for Analog Circuit Sizing

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang, Tao Cui, Xin Liu

  20. EVDMARL: Efficient Value Decomposition-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Domain-Randomization for Complex Analog Circuit Design Migration

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  21. Artisan: Automated Operational Amplifier Design via Domain-specific Large Language Model

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  22. HMNTT: A Highly Efficient MDC-NTT Architecture for Privacy-preserving Applications

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  23. Aries: A DNN Inference Scheduling Framework for Multi-core Accelerators

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  24. Can Large Language Models Be Good Companions?

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang, Runyu Wang

  25. FullSparse: A Sparse-Aware GEMM Accelerator with Online Sparsity Prediction

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jiangnan Yu, Fan Yang

  26. D 3 PBO: D ynamic D omain D ecomposition based P arallel B aye...

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, January 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang, Aidong Zhao

  27. MACRO: Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning-based Cross-layer Optimization of Operational Amplifier

    Article • January 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Fan Yang

  28. Yield Optimization for Analog Circuits over Multiple Corners via Bayesian Neural Network: Enhancing Circuit Reliability under Environmental Variation

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  29. CASES

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang, Runyu Wang

  30. Graph Representation Learning for Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration

    Article • July 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Fan Yang

  31. TPNoC: An Efficient Topology Reconfigurable NoC Generator

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jiangnan Yu, Fan Yang

  32. Guest Editor's Introduction: Machine Learning for VLSI Physical Design

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, May 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang, Dr. Igor L Markov

  33. GraphPlanner: Floorplanning with Graph Neural Network

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  34. Unveiling Causal Attention in Dogs' Eyes with Smart Eyewear

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang, Xianghua Ding, Runyu Wang

  35. ESPSim: An Efficient Scalable Power Grid Simulator Based on Parallel Algebraic Multigrid

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  36. Efficient Layout Hotspot Detection via Neural Architecture Search

    Article • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  37. LinEasyBO: Scalable Bayesian Optimization Approach for Analog Circuit Synthesis via One-Dimensional Subspaces

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  38. Floorplanning with graph attention

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  39. Do Smart Glasses Dream of Sentimental Visions?

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, March 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang, Runyu Wang

  40. Automated Compensation Scheme Design for Operational Amplifier via Bayesian Optimization

    Article • December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Fan Yang

  41. A Robust Batch Bayesian Optimization for Analog Circuit Synthesis via Local Penalization

    Article • January 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  42. An Efficient Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimization Approach for Analog Circuit Synthesis

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  43. An efficient data reuse strategy for multi-pattern data access

    Article • November 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  44. Efficient performance modeling via Dual-Prior Bayesian Model Fusion for analog and mixed-signal circuits

    Article • June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  45. Efficient performance modeling of analog integrated circuits via kernel density based sparse regression

    Article • June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang

  46. Subspace Trajectory Piecewise-Linear Model Order Reduction for Nonlinear Circuits

    Article • Communications in Computational Physics, January 2013, Global Science Press

    Fan Yang

  47. Improved tangent space based distance metric for accurate lithographic hotspot classification

    Article • January 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Fan Yang