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Atmadip passes PhD qualifier exam
Atmadip passed the PhD qualifier exam on October 2, 2026. Congratulations to Atmadip on this milestone!
Vidya presented at AMD
"From Assistants to Algorithm Designers: The Evolution of Agentic AI for Physical Design" · September 28, 2026.
Vidya and Prof. Andrew Kahng presented at the Siemens EDA webinar
"Siemens EDA and the IEEE Council on EDA: Enabling and Accelerating the Academic EDA Research Ecosystem" · September 16, 2026.
Atmadip presented at MLCAD 2026
Atmadip presented the MLCAD 2026 Contest on Agentic Algorithm Discovery for Timing Optimization and "ResizerAgent: Agentic Strategy Selection for Timing Optimization in OpenROAD Resizer" at MLCAD 2026 on September 8, 2026.
Bing-Yue passes PhD comprehensive exam
Bing-Yue passed the PhD comprehensive exam on August 21, 2026. Congratulations to Bing-Yue on this milestone!
Vidya presented at Amazon
"Designing Sustainable Computing Systems: From Chiplets to Reconfigurable Hardware" · August 14, 2026.
Charlie presented at ICLAD 2026
"CHICO-Agent: An LLM Agent for the Cross-layer Optimization of 2.5D and 3D Chiplet-based Systems" · July 30, 2026.
Vidya presented at the DAC 2026 special research session
"Toward Agentic Solution for DRC Challenges in Digital VLSI Design" · July 26, 2026. The talk also previewed EvoDRC.
Vidya presented at the Train-the-Trainers Workshop at DAC 2026
"Chipshub enabling hands-on labs, contests, and reproducible research" · July 26, 2026.
Janakiraman graduates
Janakiraman completed his MS degree on July 20, 2026. Congratulations to Janakiraman on this milestone!
Chetan passes PhD comprehensive exam
Chetan passed the PhD comprehensive exam on July 13, 2026. Congratulations to Chetan on this milestone!
Vidya presented at the ICLAD 2026 panel
"Who will disrupt EDA?" · July 2026.
Vidya presented at IGSC 2026
"Toward Sustainable Computing with FPGAs and Chiplets" · June 22, 2026.
VDA Lab receives 2026 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
The VDA Lab received the 2026 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, a research gift supporting "Democratizing Chip Design with On-Device Small Language Models as Assistants and Agents". Congratulations to Bing-Yue and Atmadip!
Vidya presented at the SCALE meeting
Panel opening statement on how AI is impacting EDA and chip design · May 2026.
Taizun graduates
Taizun completed his MS thesis on GR-Evolve. Congratulations to Taizun on this milestone!
Prof. Rovinski presented at DATE 2026
Prof. Rovinski presented the lab's paper "Focus Session: Large Language Models in Physical Design: From Data Generation to Intelligent Agents" · April 20, 2026.
Vidya gave a guest lecture at the University of Minnesota
Guest lecture on "AI for Thermal and Power Modeling and Optimization of HI Systems" · April 20, 2026.
Sai Harika presented at ISQED 2026
"Hybrid GCN-CNN Framework for Fast Timing-Driven Layer Assignment in Global Routing" · April 8, 2026.
Vidya presented at Qualcomm
"Agentic AI for Chip Design: From Tool Automation to Optimization and Algorithm Discovery" · March 26, 2026.
Vidya presented at the ASU ECEE External Advisory Board meeting
"Enabling an AI-native Chip Design Industry" · January 23, 2026.
Bing-Yue and Ajay presented at ASP-DAC 2026
Bing-Yue presented "DALI-PD: Diffusion-based Synthetic Layout Heatmap Generation for ML in Physical Design" and Ajay presented "MIMIC: Machine Intelligence for Scalable Generation of Synthetic Timing Cone Datasets".
Vikram receives the Master's category award at the 3rd Annual ECEE Graduate Research Day
Congratulations to Vikram for receiving the Master's category award at the 3rd Annual ECEE Graduate Research Day on December 5, 2025.
Bing-Yue and Vikram presented at the 3rd Annual ECEE Graduate Research Day
Bing-Yue and Vikram presented their work at the event on December 5, 2025.
Vidya and Bing-Yue presented at the Foresite Semiconductor Workshop
Vidya presented "Closing the Data Gap: AI for Synthetic Data Generation in AI-Driven EDA", and Bing-Yue presented his poster · October 20, 2025.
Vidya presented at ASU RTO Ignite
"Carbon Footprint Modeling Frameworks for Sustainable Computing with Heterogeneous Integration and FPGAs" · October 3, 2025.
Sai Harika graduates
Sai Harika completed her MS degree on September 29, 2025. Congratulations to Sai Harika on this milestone!
Vikram presented at MLCAD 2025
Vikram presented the MLCAD 2025 Contest on ReSynthAI: Physical-aware Logic Resynthesis using AI at MLCAD 2025.
Vidya presented at the AIS25 summer school in Italy
Tutorial on "AI for Physical Design: Overcoming EDA Bottlenecks in Optimization, Analysis, and Automation" · September 3, 2025.
Vidya presented at the Google AI for Chip Design Workshop
"Synthetic Data Generation for AI Applications in Physical Design" · August 28, 2025.
Two NSF awards begin
NSF POSE Phase II supports the OpenROAD ecosystem, and the Water-DESC project advances water- and carbon-aware chiplet systems.
Vikram graduates
Vikram completed his MS degree on July 28, 2025. Congratulations to Vikram on this milestone!
Google ML and Systems research award
A Google research gift supports the lab's CAD research.
Bing-Yue presented at ICLAD 2025
"OpenROAD Agent: An Intelligent Self-Correcting Script Generator for OpenROAD" · June 26, 2025.
Vidya presented at the NSF ImageNets-for-EDA panel
"Panel 2: How can we build high-quality datasets and evaluation benchmarks?" · June 26, 2025.
VDA Lab joins the NSF Chip Design Hub
The ASU VDA Lab is part of Chipshub, responsible for contests and AI content.
Vidya presented at IEEE CASS RS Talks 2025
"AI for Physical Design: Overcoming EDA Bottlenecks in Optimization, Analysis, and Automation" · June 6, 2025.
Vidya presented at the DAC 2025 Birds-of-a-Feather
"Standardized ML EDA Data Pipelines with Ontology-driven Data Mapping" · June 2025.
Vidya gave a guest lecture at UC San Diego
Guest lecture on "The Role of AI in Physical Design" · May 1, 2025.
Vidya presented at the CICC 2025 panel
"Impact of AI: A creator or destroyer of jobs?" · April 2025.
Vidya presented at ISPD 2025
"Invited: Toward an ML EDA Commons: Establishing Standards, Accessibility, and Reproducibility in ML-driven EDA Research" · March 16, 2025.
Chetan presented at the 2nd Annual ECEE Graduate Research Day
Chetan presented his work at the event on December 6, 2024.
Chetan presented at IGSC 2024
"Beyond the Surface: The Necessity for Detailed Metrics in Corporate Sustainability Reports" · November 2, 2024.
Vidya presented at the NSF ImageNets-for-EDA workshop panel at NYU
"Panel 2: How can we build high-quality datasets and evaluation benchmarks?" · November 2024.
Vidya presented at the NSF ImageNets-for-EDA workshop at NYU
"The SLICE Initiative: Towards a Shared Infrastructure for ML EDA" · November 2024.
Bing-Yue and Vidya presented at ICCAD 2024
Bing-Yue presented "2024 ICCAD CAD Contest Problem C: Scalable Logic Gate Sizing using ML Techniques and GPU Acceleration". Vidya presented "Generative Methods in EDA: Innovations in Dataset Generation and EDA Tool Assistants" and "Strengthening the Foundations of IC Physical Design and ML EDA Research".
Vidya presented at Rutgers University
"The Role of AI in Physical Design" · October 24, 2024.
Vidya presented at Meta
"The Role of AI in Physical Design" · October 9, 2024.
Bing-Yue passes PhD qualifier exam
Bing-Yue passed the PhD qualifier exam on October 2, 2024. Congratulations to Bing-Yue on this milestone!
Bing-Yue presented at MLCAD 2024
"OpenROAD-Assistant: An Open-Source Large Language Model for Physical Design Tasks" · September 9, 2024.
Vikram presented at ISLPED 2024
"ML-INSIGHT: Machine Learning for Inrush Current Prediction and Power Switch Network Improvement" · August 5, 2024.
Vidya presented at EMC+SIPI 2024
"OpenROAD and CircuitOps: An ML EDA Infrastructure for Research and Education" · August 2024.
Bing-Yue presented at LAD 2024
"EDA-Corpus: A Large Language Model Dataset for Enhanced Interaction with OpenROAD" · June 28, 2024.
Chetan presented at DAC 2024
"GreenFPGA: Evaluating FPGAs as Environmentally Sustainable Computing Solutions" · June 23, 2024.
Vidya presented at MEPTEC
"The Role of Machine Learning (ML) in Electronic Design Automation (EDA)" · June 13, 2024.
Vidya presented at the DAC 2024 GenAI panel
"Generative AI for Chip Design: Game Changer or Damp Squib?" · June 2024.
Vidya presented at the DAC 2024 SLICE Birds-of-a-Feather
"The SLICE Initiative: Towards a Shared Infrastructure for ML EDA" · June 2024.
Vidya presented at the DAC 2024 EDA Corpus Birds-of-a-Feather
"Laying the Foundations for LLMs in Open-source EDA" · June 2024.
EDA Corpus: A Large Language Model Dataset for Enhanced Interaction with OpenROAD presented by Vidya at DAC 2024
Vidya presented "EDA Corpus: A Large Language Model Dataset for Enhanced Interaction with OpenROAD" at DAC 2024 in June 2024.
Vidya presented at VTS 2024
"OpenROAD and CircuitOps: Infrastructure for ML EDA Research and Education" · April 22, 2024.
Vidya presented at VTS 2024
"OpenROAD and CircuitOps: An ML EDA Infrastructure for Research and Education" · April 2024.
Chetan presented at HPCA 2024
"ECO-CHIP: Estimation of Carbon Footprint of Chiplet-based Architectures for Sustainable VLSI" · March 2, 2024.
Chetan passes PhD qualifier exam
Chetan passed the PhD qualifier exam on February 23, 2024. Congratulations to Chetan on this milestone!
Vidya presented at ISSCC 2024
"AI for Chip Design: Past, Present and Future" · February 2024.
Vidya, Bing-Yue and Prof. Andrew Kahng presented a tutorial at ASP-DAC 2024
"CircuitOps and OpenROAD: Unleashing ML EDA for Research and Education" · January 22, 2024.
Vidya presented at ICCAD 2023
Vidya presented "CircuitOps: An ML Infrastructure Enabling Generative AI for VLSI Circuit Optimization" and "ICCAD CAD Contest Problem C: Static IR Drop Estimation Using Machine Learning".
Prof. Sachin Sapatnekar presented at ISQED 2023
"Analysis of Pattern-dependent Rapid Thermal Annealing Effects on SRAM Design" · April 5, 2023.
The VDA Lab is founded at ASU
Prof. Vidya joined the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering as an Assistant Professor.