Yuntao Lu

About me

I am currently a second-year Ph.D. student majoring in Computer Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), under the supervision of Prof. Bei Yu since 2023 Fall. Previously, I received my M.S. at The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) and The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) , and B.Eng. at The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) . My research interests are Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Design Automation (AI4EDA) and Functional Verification.

DeepVerifier: Learning to Update Test Sequences for Coverage-Guided Verification. Yuntao Lu, Chen Bai, Yuxuan Zhao, Mingyu Liu, and Bei Yu. Accepted by ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES).
SparseNN: A Performance-Efficient Accelerator for Large-Scale Sparse neural Networks. Yuntao Lu, Lei Gong, Chao Wang, Xuehai Zhou. International Journal of Parallel Programming 46.4 (2018): 648-659. Available here
A High-performance FPGA Accelerator for Sparse Neural Networks: Work in Progress. Yuntao Lu, Lei Gong, Chongchong Xu, Fan Sun, Yiwei Zhang, Chao Wang, Xuehai Zhou. In Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems Companion, pp. 1-2. 2017. Available here
An Overview of Neural Network Accelerators. Yuntao Lu, Chao Wang, Lei Hong, Xi Li, Aili Wang and Xuehai Zhou. High Performance Computing for Big Data: methodologies and applications. CRC Press, 2017. Available here

Jan. 2022 - Aug. 2023, Machine Learning Engineer, Intel Asia-Pacific Research and Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China.
Projects: Validations for Intel TensorFlow, and Intel oneAPI AI Analytics Toolkit
Aug. 2020 - Dec. 2021, AI Applied Engineer, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Projects: Validations and Developments for Optimized AI models and applications on AI-specific chips.

Aug. 2023 - at Present, Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Computer and Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Aug. 2018 - May 2020, M.S. in Information Studies, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.
Sep. 2015 - May 2018, M.S. in Computer Science, School of Computer Science and Technology, The University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Sep. 2011 - May 2015, B.Eng. in Software Engineering, School of Information and Software Engineering, The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.