Sunan Zou

Sunan Zou

PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Peking University

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the School of Computer Science at Peking University, advised by Professor Guojie Luo at PKU-DASYS Group (Design Automation for Next-generation Computing Systems). My current research interests include computer architecture, AI systems and compilers, electronic design automation (EDA). I have published 10 papers with total . [English CV] [中文简历]

I obtained my B.S. in Computer Science in 2022 from the School of EECS at Peking University. I have been affiliated with the PKU-DASYS Group with Professor Guojie Luo since 2019. I also worked as a research intern at Carnegie Mellon University and National Institute of Informatics (Japan). During my undergraduate studies and Ph.D. pursuit, I mainly focused on efficent LLM algorithm and system, electronic design automation, and domain-specific accelerator design.

📝 Publications

Conferences

[C8] RTLPilot: Skill-Driven Multi-Agent System for Repository-Level RTL Code Migration, Xiao Tan, Chenyue Li, Sunan Zou, and Guojie Luo. in the Proceedings of 2026 International Symposium of EDA (ISEDA), 2026. (To Appear)

[C7] UltraSketchLLM: Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Sketch and Hardware-Friendly Operators, Sunan Zou, Xueting Sun, Ziyun Zhang, and Guojie Luo. in the Proceedings of the 63rd Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026. (To Appear)

[C6] MuSA: Multi-Sketch Accelerator with Hybrid Parallelism and Coalesced Memory Organization, Sunan Zou, Bizhao Shi, Ziyun Zhang, and Guojie Luo. in the Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Nov, 2024.

[C5] AceRoute: Adaptive Compute-Efficient FPGA Routing with Pluggable Intra-Connection Bidirectional Exploration, Xinming Wei, Ziyun Zhang, Sunan Zou, Kaiwen Sun, Jiahao Zhang, Jiaxi Zhang, Ping Fan, and Guojie Luo. in the Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2024.

[C4] ImageMap: Enabling Efficient Mapping from Image Processing DSL to CGRA, Bizhao Shi, Tuo Dai, Sunan Zou, Xinming Wei, and Guojie Luo. in the Proceedings of the 30th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Aug, 2024.

[C3] PONO: Power Optimization with Near Optimal SMT-based Sub-circuit Generation, Sunan Zou and Guojie Luo. in the Proceedings of the 61st Design Automation Conference (DAC), Jun, 2024.

[C2] Incremental SAT-based Exact Synthesis, Sunan Zou, Jiaxi Zhang, and Guojie Luo. in the Proceedings of the 34th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2024. [Best Paper Award]

[C1] BESWAC: Boosting Exact Synthesis via Wiser SAT Solver Call, Sunan Zou, Jiaxi Zhang, Bizhao Shi, and Guojie Luo. in the Proceedings of 2024 Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Mar, 2024.

Journals

[J2] Large Circuit Models: Opportunities and Challenges, Lei Chen, Yiqi Chen, Zhufei Chu, Wenji Fang, Tsung-Yi Ho, et al, and Sunan Zou (Alphabetical Order). in Science China Information Sciences, Volume 67, 2024.

[J1] PowerSyn: A Logic Synthesis Framework with Early Power Optimization, Sunan Zou, Jiaxi Zhang, Bizhao Shi, and Guojie Luo. in the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Vol: 43, Issue: 1, Jan 2024, pp. 203-216.

🏆 Honors and Awards

  • 2024 - Honors for Merit Student (三好学生), Peking Unniversity
  • 2024 - BYD Scholarship (北京大学比亚迪奖学金), Peking University
  • 2024 - Best Paper Award, 34th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI)
  • 2024 - ISFPGA FPGA Routing Contest Third Place, ISFPGA Committee
  • 2021 - Principal’s Fund for Undergraduate Research Training (Natural Science), Peking University
  • 2018 - Freshman Scholarship (新生奖学金), Peking University
  • 2018 - Freshman Scholarship (院长新生奖学金), School of EECS, Peking University

🎓 Educations

  • 2022.09 - 2027.06 (Expected), Ph.D. Student, School of Computer Science, Peking University.
  • 2018.09 - 2022.07, B.S. in Computer Science, School of EECS, Peking University.

💼 Experiences

  • 2025.10 - 2026.04 (Expected), National Institute of Informatics (Japan), Tokyo, Japan. Advised by Prof. Junichi Yamagishi. Violin Audio Model.
  • 2021.03 - 2021.09, Carnegie Mellon University (Remote). Advised by Prof. Lawrence Pileggi. GNN and Logic Locking.
  • 2019.07 - 2022.01, PKU-DASYS Group, Peking University, Beijing, China. Advised by Prof. Guojie Luo. RL and logic optimization.

📚 Services

  • Reviewer: IEEE TCAD
  • Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2022 Spring & 2023 Spring

⚙️ Skills

  • Programming: C/C++, Python (PyTorch), FPGA HLS, Verilog, CUDA, LaTeX
  • Tools: Git, Docker/Apptainer
  • Languages: Chinese (Native), English (Working Proficiency), Japanese (Conversational)