Bangqi Fu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

bqfu21@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

Biography

Bangqi Fu is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. degree at 2025 from the same affiliation under the supervision of Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young. Before that, he graduated with B.S.E from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2021. His research interests focus on VLSI logic-physical synthesis with GPU acceleration and machine Learning.

Publications ()

Journal

1. Bangqi Fu, Lixin Liu, Yutao Wang, Xingyu Cui, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Martin D.F. Wong, "Clustering and Binding Flip-Flops in Global Placement with Analytical Optimization", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD '2025)
2. Lixin Liu, Bangqi Fu, Shiju Lin; Jinwei Liu, Evangeline F. Y. Young and Martin D. F. Wong, "Xplace: An Extremely Fast and Extensible Placement Framework", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD '2023) [code]
3. Yao Lu, Wenjia Zhang, Bangqi Fu, and Zuyuan He, "Synaptic delay plasticity based on frequency-switched VCSELs for optical delay-weight spiking neural networks", Optics Letters (Opt. Lett. '2023)
4. Yao Lu, Wenjia Zhang, Bangqi Fu, and Zuyuan He, "Frequency-switched photonic spiking neurons", Optics Express (Opt. Express '2023)

Conference

5. Bangqi Fu, Lixin Liu, Qijing Wang, Yutao Wang, Martin D. F. Wong, and Evangeline F. Y. Young, "Fast Dynamic IR-Drop Prediction with Dual-path Spatial-Temporal Attention", In 2025 IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE '2025) [code]
6. Bangqi Fu, Lixin Liu, Martin D. F. Wong, and Evangeline F. Y. Young, "Hybrid Modeling and Weighting for Timing-driven Placement with Efficient Calibration", In 2024 IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD '2024) [code]
7. Bangqi Fu, Lixin Liu, Yang Sun, Wing-Ho Lau, Martin D. F. Wong, and Evangeline F. Y. Young, "CoPlace: Coherent Placement Engine with Layout-aware Partitioning for 3D ICs", In 2024 IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC '2024) (Best Paper Award Nomination)
8. Fangzhou Wang, Qijing Wang, Bangqi Fu, Shui Jiang, Xiaopeng Zhang, Lilas Alrahis, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Johann Knechtel, Tsung-Yi Ho, and Evangeline F.Y. Young, "Security Closure of IC Layouts Against Hardware Trojans", In 2023 International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD '2023)
9. Lixin Liu, Bangqi Fu, Martin D. F. Wong, and Evangeline F. Y. Young, "Xplace: an extremely fast and extensible global placement framework", In 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC '2022) [code]
10. Bangqi Fu, Wenjia Zhang, Yao Lu, Zuyuan He, "Photonic Spiking VCSEL Neurons using Multi-Frequency Switching", In 2021 IEEE Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC '2021)
11. Zhuoran Song, Bangqi Fu, Feiyang Wu, Zhaoming Jiang, Li Jiang, Naifeng Jing, Xiaoyao Liang, "DRQ: Dynamic Region-based Quantization for Deep Neural Network Acceleration", In 2020 ACM/IEEE 47th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '2020)

Experiences

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong KongSep 2025 ~ Present
Postdoctoral Fellow
GPU-accelerated logic synthesis

Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, USJun 2023 ~ Dec 2023
Software Engineer Intern
Machine learning aided optimization on distributed machines

Selected Honors and Awards

• ICCAD Student Scholar Program Travel Grant, 2024.
• 2^nd Place in ICCAD Contest on "Scalable Logic Gate Sizing Using ML Techniques and GPU Acceleration", 2024.
• Honorable mention in ICCAD Contest on "Power and Timing Optimization Using Multibit Flip-Flop", 2024.
• Best Paper Nomination, 29th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2024.
• 3^rd Place in ICCAD Contest on "3D Placement with Macros", 2023.
• 3^rd Place in ISPD Contest on "Advanced Security Closure of Physical Layouts", 2023.
• Talent Development Scholarship at CUHK, 2023.
• Honorable mention in ICCAD Contest on "3D Placement with D2D Vertical Connections", 2022.
• 3^rd Place in ISPD Contest on "Security Closure of Physical Layouts", 2022.
• Full Postgraduate Studentship at CUHK, 2023.
• Zhiyuan Honors Program Scholarship, 2017-2021.

Updated on Dec 10, 2025.