Weichen Liu

Dr. Weichen Liu is an Associate Professor at the College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) (formerly known as the School of Computer Science and Engineering), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was a Nanyang Assistant Professor (NAP) during 2018-2023. He received his PhD degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the MEng and BEng degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

Dr. Liu serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), an Associate Editor of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL), and a Subject Area Editor of Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA). He served as a General Chair of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Computing (ISORC 2020), a Program Chair of ISORC 2019, a Track Chair of ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED 2021, 2022), IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC 2023), and a chair, technical program committee member, organizing committee member and guest editor of over 20 premier international conferences, workshops, forums and journals, including DAC, ICCAD, ASP-DAC, CODES+ISSS, RTSS, RTAS, ISLPED, GLSVLSI, MSC@ESWEEK, SRF@ASP-DAC, EAI@ICDCS, etc.

Dr. Liu authored and co-authored more than 180 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, conferences and books, and received the best paper candidate awards from DAC 2024, DATE 2023, GLSVLSI 2022, ASP-DAC 2020, 2019 and 2016, CASES 2015, CODES+ISSS 2009, and the best poster paper awards from SRF@ASP-DAC 2020 and 2017, RTCSA 2017, AMD-TFE 2010. His research was supported by leading industrial partners including Intel, AMD, Xilinx, MediaTek, Huawei and HP.

• Embedded and Real-Time Systems
• Many-Core Systems
• Electronic/Photonic Network-on-Chip
• Machine Learning Acceleration
• Edge Intelligence

• Special Mention, Singapore Open Research Awards, Singapore, 2024
• Best Paper Candidate Award, DAC, US, 2024
• HiPEAC Paper Award, for the paper published at DAC 2023, Europe, 2023
• Best Paper Candidate Award, DATE, Belgium, 2023
• Best Research Award, STCAI, Singapore, 2022
• Best Paper Candidate Award, GLSVLSI, US, 2022
• Publicity Paper, DAC, US, 2022
• 3rd Place, IEEE EDAthon EDA Programming Competition, Hong Kong, 2020
• Best Poster Award (Presentation), ACM SIGDA Student Research Forum at ASP-DAC, China, 2020
• Best Paper Candidate Award, ASP-DAC, China, 2020
• Best Paper Candidate Award, ASP-DAC, Japan, 2019
• Founding Investigator, HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab, Singapore, 2018 (News: 1, 2)
• Nanyang Assistant Professorship Award, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2018
• A. Richard Newton Young Student Advisor Award, DAC, US, 2017
• Best Poster Paper Award, RTCSA, Taiwan, 2017
• Best Poster Award (Most Popular), ACM SIGDA Student Research Forum at ASPDAC, Japan, 2017
• Best Paper Candidate Award, ASP-DAC, Macau, 2016
• Best Paper Candidate Award, CASES, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2015
• Best Paper Candidate Award, CODES+ISSS, Grenoble, France, 2009
• Best Poster Award, AMD Technical Forum and Exhibition (AMD-TFE), Taiwan, 2010
• 100-Outstanding-Scholar Award, Chongqing University, China, 2013
• Chongqing Outstanding Talents, Chongqing Government, China, 2014
• MediaTek Inc. & Wu Ta-You Scholar Award, MediaTek Inc., Taiwan, 2005