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Principal Investigator

Xinfei Guo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Advisor
UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
xinfei.guo@sjtu.edu.cn
+86-21-3420-6765 Ext. 4191
https://sites.ji.sjtu.edu.cn/xinfei-guo/

Xinfei Guo received his B.Eng degree from Xidian University in China and M.S degree in ECE from the University of Florida in 2010 and 2012 respectively.  He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2018. He was advised by Prof. Mircea Stan. He has been worked in semiconductor industry for over 4 years, including experience at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as an adjunct researcher during his Ph.D. and working as a Senior SoC Design Engineer for ~3 years at NVIDIA (US) after graduation. Since May 2021, he joined JI. The blending of his academia and industry chip product development experiences led to his research interests to solve practical yet challenging research problems in chip design, including exploring intelligent solutions and methodologies for chip design and designing efficient circuits, architectures and systems that are capable of running intelligent tasks.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Jani Babu Shaik, Ph.D. 10/2024 –
Analog Mixed Signal Design Engineer, Cyient Ltd. (2022 – 2024)
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, India (2017 – 2022)
M. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India (2014 – 2016)
B. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology, Guntur, India (2009 – 2013)
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/skjanibabu786/home
Research Interests: VLSI Design, Circuit Reliability

Ph.D. Students

Xiaotian Zhao, 08/2022 –
B.S. in Computer Science, Xidian University (2018 – 2022)
Website: https://tttiko.github.io/
Research Interests: AI/ML Hardware, Design Automation

Runxi Wang, 08/2023 – 
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019 – 2023)
Website: https://misaki-rx.github.io/
Research Interests: Computer Architecture, 3DICs, FPGAs

Ruge Xu, 08/2023 –
M.S. in Big Data Analytics, University of Michigan (2021 – 2023)
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2018 – 2022)
Research Interests: HW/SW Co-design for ML

Xinyue Wu, 08/2024 –
B.S. in Telecommunication Engineering, East China Normal University (2020 – 2024)
Website: https://xinyuewxy.github.io/
Research Interests: AI+EDA, Front-and-Rear Procession

Zijiao Zhang (co-advised), 08/2024 –
B.S. in AI, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2020 – 2024)
Research Interests: AI, LLM

Ting Lin, 08/2025 –
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021 – 2025)
Research Interests: Computer Systems and Architecture

Master of Science Students

Linyu Zhu, 08/2022 –
B.S. in Electronic Science and Technology, Hunan University (2018 – 2022)
Website: https://linyzhu.github.io/
Research Interests: VLSI, AI+EDA

Yichen Cai, 08/2023 – 
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019 – 2023)
Research Interests: Circuit Design, Physical Design

Fan Hu, 08/2024 – 
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020 – 2024)
Research Interests: Circuit Reliability, Aging-aware Design

Jacob Raby, 08/2024 – 
B.S. in Computer Engineering & Chinese, University of Mississippi, US (2020 – 2024)
Research Interests: 3DIC, Thermal-aware Design

Zixuan Li, 08/2025 – 
B.S. in Software Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2020 – 2024)
Research Interests: EDA, Physical Design

Visiting Students

Undergraduate Researchers

Ziheng Wang, 03/2023 – Present
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021 – 2025)
Research Interests: 3DIC

Jiayin Chen, 01/2024 – Present
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2022 – 2026)
Research Interests: ML + EDA

Undergraduate Alumni

Ziye Chen, 10/2023 – 06/2024
B.S. in ECE, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (2019 – 2023)
Research Interests: SW/HW Codesign

Qilin Ye, 02/2022 – 08/2023
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020 – 2024)
Research Interests: ML in circuit design
Placement: Continuing M.S. at UCI

Yujia Sun, 03/2022 – 08/2023
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020 – 2024)
Research Interests: Algorithms, EDA
Placement: Continuing M.S. at USC

Zhe Liu, 03/2022 – 10/2023
B.S. in Microelectronics @ Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021 – 2025)
Research Interests: open-source EDA

Fan Hu, 12/2022 – 08/2023
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020 – 2024)
Research Interests: Circuit Design
Placement: Continuing M.S. in the same group

Ruge Xu, 05/2022 – 08/2023
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2018 – 2022), M.S. U of Michigan (2021 – 2023)
Research Interests: Quantization, ML
Placement: Continuing Ph.D. in the same group

Yue Gu, 09/2022 – 05/2023
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021 – 2025)
Research Interests: ML + EDA

Caining Lian, 09/2022 – 05/2023
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020 – 2024)

Ziheng Li, 02/2022 – 02/2023
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020 – 2024)
Research Interests: ML in circuit design

Siyi Gong, 01/2022 – 01/2023
B.S. in BME @ Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020 – 2024)
Research Interests: Edge computing hardware

Yichen Wei, 01/2022 – 01/2023
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020 – 2024)
Research Interests: Edge computing hardware

Hongfei Mei, 08/2021 – 01/2023
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019 – 2023)
Research Interests: Open-source EDA

Longxing Shi, 08/2021 – 01/2023
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019 – 2023)
Research Interests: Bio-medical chips

Jiajun Zhang, 09/2022 – 01/2023
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021 – 2025)
Research Interests: EDA

Yiming Chen, 03/2022 – 12/2022
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021 – 2025)

Xiangdong Wei, 05/2021 – 11/2022
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2018 – 2022) & University of Michigan (2020 – 2022)
Placement: Continuing Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at University of Michigan

Yuqi Gu, 11/2021 – 10/2022
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019 – 2023)
Placement: Continuing M.S in SJTU

Yichen Cai, 11/2021 – 08/2022
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019 – 2023)
Placement: Continuing M.S in the same group

Runxi Wang, 11/2021 – 08/2022
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019 – 2023)
Placement: Continuing Ph.D. in the same group

Zhengping Zhu, 08/2021 – 06/2022
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2018 – 2022)
Placement: Continuing M.S. in ECE at Columbia University

Kebing Zhang, 08/2021 – 04/2022
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019 – 2023)

Yihua Liu, Undergraduate Research Intern, 06/2021 – 10/2021
B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2018 – 2022)
Placement: Continuing M.S. at UM-SJTU JI

Zejia Liu, Undergraduate Research Intern, 06/2021 – 08/2021
B.S. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (2018 – 2022)
Placement: Continuing M.S. at UESTC