Wenji Fang
Wenji Fang

PhD Student

About Me

Hi! I’m Wenji Fang (方闻绩), a Ph.D. student at the Electronic and Computer Engineering Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, advised by Prof. Zhiyao Xie. Previously, I received my M.Phil in microelectronics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), advised by Prof. Hongce Zhang & Prof. Zhiyao Xie, and my B.Eng in electrical engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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Interests
  • AI for EDA
  • Circuit Quality Evaluation
  • Circuit Functional Verification
Education
  • PhD in ECE

    HKUST

  • MPhil in Microelectronics

    HKUST(GZ)

  • BEng in EE

    NUAA

Research Overview

Circuit Foundation Model

  • Large Circuit Model [SCIS'24]
  • RTL-netlist encoder alignment [ASPDAC'25]
  • Multimodal RTL encoder [ICLR'25]

VLSI Design Quality Evaluation

  • RTL-stage fine-grained timing slack prediction [DAC'24]
  • RTL-stage overall PPA prediction [TCAD'24]&[ICCAD'23]

Hardware Formal Verification

Publications
(2025). CircuitFusion: Multimodal Circuit Representation Learning for Agile Chip Design. In ICLR.
(2025). AssertLLM: Generating Hardware Verification Assertions from Design Specifications via Multi-LLMs. In ASP-DAC.
(2025). Towards Big Data in AI for EDA Research: Generation of New Pseudo Circuits at RTL Stage. In ASP-DAC.
(2025). RTLCoder: Fully Open-Source and Efficient LLM-Assisted RTL Code Generation Technique. In TCAD.
(2025). Transferable Pre-Synthesis PPA Estimation for RTL Designs With Data Augmentation Techniques. In TCAD.
(2024). Large circuit models: opportunities and challenges. In SCIS.
(2024). OpenLLM-RTL: Open Dataset and Benchmark for LLM-Aided Design RTL Generation (Invited). In ICCAD.
(2024). RTLCoder: Outperforming GPT-3.5 in Design RTL Generation with Our Open-Source Dataset and Lightweight Solution. In LAD.
(2023). MasterRTL: A Pre-Synthesis PPA Estimation Framework for Any RTL Design. In ICCAD.
(2023). An Integrated Single-Shot Spectrometer With Large Bandwidth-Resolution Ratio and Wide Operation Temperature Range. In PhotoniX.
Awards
  • DAC Young Fellow, 2024
  • ISLAD Best Paper Nomination, 2024
  • ISLAD Travel Grant, 2024
  • Full Postgraduate Studentship of HKUST, 2024-Now
  • ICCAD Student Scholar Program Grant, 2023
  • 3rd Place Award of EDAthon Contest, 2023
  • Full Postgraduate Studentship of HKUST(GZ), 2022-2024
  • Infineon Technology Scholarship, 2020
  • First Class Scholarship of NUAA, 2017-2021
Teaching
  • TA of MICS6000H Logic Design Automation of Digital Systems, HKUST(GZ)