Biography

Wenhao Lin is a Ph.D. candidate at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Evangeline Young. Wenhao obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) in June, 2023.

His research focuses on Electronic Design Automation (EDA).

Publications

• Xinshi Zang, Wenhao Lin, Jinwei Liu, and Evangeline F.Y. Young. 2024. Potter: A Parallel Overlap-Tolerant Router for UltraScale FPGAs. International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2024 (ICCAD '24). [Paper]

• Xinshi Zang, Wenhao Lin, Shiju Lin, Jinwei Liu, and Evangeline F.Y. Young. 2024. An Open-Source Fast Parallel Routing Approach for Commercial FPGAs. In Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2024 (GLSVLSI '24). [Paper] [Code]

  • Proposed techniques have been integrated into RapidWright (an open-source framework for FPGA design developed by AMD Xilinx)!

• Jiahao Li, Zhourun Wu, Wenhao Lin, Jiawei Luo, Jun Zhang, Qingcai Chen, and Junjie Chen. 2023. iEnhancer-ELM: improve enhancer identification by extracting position-related multiscale contextual information based on enhancer language models. Bioinformatics Advances 3, 1 (January 2023), vbad043. [Paper] [Code]

Awards

• 2nd place in Runtime-First FPGA Interchange Routing Contest @ FPGA '24 (Team CUFR)
• 3rd place in ICCAD 2023 CAD Contest on “3D Placement with Macros” Problem (Team cadb1049)

Working Experience

• Internship, AMD Research and Advanced Development (RAD) (remote, 2024.8 - 2024.12)
  • End-of-internship talk: Multi-Threaded FPGA Routing Leveraging RapidWright

Teaching

Working as a teaching assistant:

• CENG4120 Computer-aided Design for Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits (2025 Spring, CUHK)
• CSCI1020 Hands-on Introduction to C++ (2024 Spring, CUHK)
• CSCI1540 Fundamental Computing with C++ (2023 Fall, CUHK)
• Operating System (2022 Fall, HITSZ)