Yufan won the first prize in ICCAD 2024 Contest Problem C

ICCAD CAD contest is a world-wide competition that attracts participants from elite universities and research institutions across the globe. It serves as a platform for showing innovative solutions to some of the most challenging problems in VLSI design automation. With hundreds of participants annually, the contest’s problems are designed to closely mirror real-world industrial challenges, ensuring their high practical relevance and academic value.

The contest not only tests the participants’ technical expertise in advanced algorithm development but also their ability to tackle complex optimization and design problems under competitive pressure. Winning or excelling in the ICCAD CAD Contest is considered a significant achievement, reflecting world-class skill, creativity, and problem-solving abilities in one of the most competitive fields in technology.

ICCAD 2024 Contest Problem C is related to Scalable Logic Gate Sizing Using ML Techniques and GPU Acceleration. The contest advocated all the participants to utilize GPU acceleration techniques to make a critical gate sizing task more efficient and effective.