I am fortunate to collaborate with talented researchers/engineers and published several papers for our work:

• Yuchen Hu, Jialin Sun, Yushu Du, Renshuang Jiang, Ning Wang, Weiwei Shan, Xinwei Fang, Xi Wang, Nan Guan, and Zhe Jiang. Beyond Fuzzer Islands: CPU Fuzzing via Smart Coordination, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Jialin Sun, Yuchen Hu, Dean You, Hui Wang, Yushu Du, Xinwei Fang, and Zhe Jiang. Prelude: Priming-Guided State Reconstruction for Efficient FPGA CPU Debugging, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Jiapeng Guan, Jie Zhang, Hao Zhou, Ran Wei, Dean You, Hui Wang, Yingquan Wang, Tinglue Wang, Xudong Zhao, Jing Li, and Zhe Jiang. Strix: Re-thinking NPU Reliability from a System Perspective, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Jie Zhang, Jiapeng Guan, Hao Zhou, Xiaomeng Han, Tinglue Wang, Ran Wei, and Zhe Jiang. From Characterization to Microarchitecture: Designing an Elegant and Reliable BFP-Based NPU, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Junhao Ye, Dingrong Pan, Hanyuan Liu, Yuchen Hu, Jie Zhou, Ke Xu, Xinwei Fang, Xi Wang, Nan Guan, and Zhe Jiang. UVMarvel: an Automated LLM-aided UVM Machine for Subsytem-level RTL Verification, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Renshuang Jiang, Yichong Wang, Pan Dong, Xiaoxiang Fang, Zhenling Duan, Tinglue Wang, Yuchen Hu, Jie Yu, and Zhe Jiang. AkiraRust: Re-thinking LLM-aided Rust Repair Using a Feedback-guided Thinking Switch, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Ning Wang, Zichong Deng, Bingkun Yao, Jie Zhou, Yuchen Hu, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, and Nan Guan. CircuitDiff: Bridging Netlist Knowledge with RTL based on Graph Denoising Diffusion, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Ning Wang, Bingkun Yao, Jie Zhou, Yuchen Hu, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, and Nan Guan. Insights from Verification: Training a Verilog Generation LLM using Reinforcement Learning with Testbench Feedback, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Jia Xiong, Runkai Li, Haowen Fang, Cheng Ni, Ziran Zhu, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, and Xi Wang. ParetoPilot: Global Optimization Reasoning on HLS Design Space Exploration with LLMs, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Jianmin Ye, Yifan Zhang, Tianyang Liu, Qi Tian, Shengchu Su, Lik Tung Fu, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, and Xi Wang. ChipModeler: LLM-Aided Reference Model Design for Agile Hardware Verification, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Changwen Xing, SamZaak Wong, Xinlai Wan, Yanfeng Lu, Mengli Zhang, Zebin Ma, Lei Qi, Zhengxiong Li, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, Xi Wang, and Jun Yang. ChipMind: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Long-Context Circuit Design Specifications, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Gwok-Waa Wan, SamZaak Wong, Shengchu Su, Chenxu Niu, Ning Wang, Xinlai Wan, Qixiang Chen, Mengnv Xing, Jingyi Zhang, Jianmin Ye, Yubo Wang, Rongchang Song, Tao Ni, Qiang Xu, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, Xi Wang, and Jun Yang. Towards End-to-End Benchmarking of LLM-Aided Design Verification, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Jinwu Chen, Yuhui Shi, He Wang, Zhe Jiang, Jun Yang, Xin Si, and Zhenhua Zhu. CIM-Tuner: Balancing the Compute and Storage Capacity of SRAM-CIM Accelerator via Hardware-mapping Co-exploration, Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Gwok-Waa Wan, Mengnv Xing, Shengchu Su, Jingyi Zhang, Sam-Zaak Wong, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, and Jun Yang. ChatTest: Automated Test Generation for Agile Hardware Verification with LLMs, Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Dawei Yang, Chenhao Ma, Xiuhui Deng, Jianning Zhang, Huang Wei, Zhe Jiang, and Ying Huo. Joint Learning Video Segmentation with Different Prior Guidance, Journal of System Architecture (JSA), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]
• Zhe Jiang, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zhenghui Guo, Renshuang Jiang, Pan Dong, Shuai Zhao, and Nan Guan. MCS³: A Mixed-Criticality System with Suspension-awareness and Semi-clairvoyance for Edge Computing, Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2026. [Accepted, to appear]

• Shuai Zhao, Yiyang Gao, Zhiyang Lin, Boyang Li, Xinwei Fang, Zhe Jiang, and Nan Guan. Response Time Analysis for Probabilistic DAG Tasks in Multicore Real-Time Systems, Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2025. [Accepted, to appear]
• Xiangfeng Liu, Zhe Jiang, Anzhen Zhu, Xiaomeng Han, Mingsong Lyu, Qingxu Deng, and Nan Guan. Re-thinking Memory-Bound Limitations in CGRAs, International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), 2025. -- Best Paper Award. Well done, Xiangfeng!
• Dean You, Jieyu Jiang, Xiaoxuan Wang, Yushu Du, Zhihang Tan, Wenbo Xu, Hui Wang, Jiapeng Guan, Wang Zhenyuan, Shuai Zhao, Ran Wei, and Zhe Jiang. MERE: Hardware-Software Co-Design for Masking Cache Miss Latency in Embedded Processors , International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), 2025.
• Junhao Ye, Yuchen Hu, Ke Xu, Dingrong Pan, Qichun Chen, Jie Zhou, Shuai Zhao, Xinwei Fang, Xi Wang, Nan Guan, and Zhe Jiang. From Concept to Practice: an Automated LLM-aided UVM Machine for RTL Verification , International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2025.
• Zhe Jiang, Minli Liao, Sam Ainsworth, Dean You, and Timothy Jones. MEEK: Re-thinking Heterogeneous Parallel Error Detection Architecture for Real-World OoO Superscalar Processors, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
• Zhe Jiang, Sam Ainsworth, and Timothy Jones. FireGuard: A Generalized Microarchitecture for Fine-Grained Security Analysis on OoO Superscalar Cores, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
• Tinglue Wang, Yiming Li, Wei Tang, Jiapeng Guan, Zhenghui Guo, Renshuang Jiang, Ran Wei, Jing Li, and Zhe Jiang. FlexStep: Enabling Flexible Error Detection in Multi/Many-core Real-time Systems, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
• Hui Wang, Zhengpeng Zhao, Jing Wang, Yushu Du, Yuan Cheng, Bing Guo, He Xiao, Chenhao Ma, Xiaomeng Han, Dean You, Jiapeng Guan, Ran Wei, Dawei Yang, and Zhe Jiang. NVR: Vector Runahead on NPUs for Sparse Memory Access, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
• Xiaomeng Han, Yuan Cheng, Jing Wang, Junyang Lu, Hui Wang, Xuanxi Zhang, Ning Xu, Dawei Yang, and Zhe Jiang. BBAL: A Bidirectional Block Floating Point-Based Quantization Accelerator for Large Language Models, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
• Yuchen Hu, Junhao Ye, Ke Xu, Jialin Sun, Shiyue Zhang, Xinyao Jiao, Dingrong Pan, Jie Zhou, Ning Wang, Weiwei Shan, Xinwei Fang, Xi Wang, Nan Guan, and Zhe Jiang. UVLLM: An Automated Universal RTL Verification Framework using LLMs, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
• Jie Zhou, Youshu Ji, Ning Wang, Yuchen Hu, Xinyao Jiao, Bingkun Yao, Xinwei Fang, Nan Guan, Shuai Zhao, and Zhe Jiang. Insights from Rights and Wrongs: A Large Language Model for Solving Assertion Failures in RTL Design, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
• Renshuang Jiang, Pan Dong, Zhenling Duan, Yu Shi, Xiaoxiang Fang, Yan Ding, Jun Ma, Shuai Zhao, and Zhe Jiang. Unlocking a New Rust Programming Experience: Fast and Slow Thinking with LLMs to Conquer Undefined Behaviors, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
• Juxin Niu, Xiangfeng Liu, Dan Niu, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, and Nan Guan. ReChisel: Effective Automatic Chisel Code Generation by LLM with Reflection, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
• Bingkun Yao, Ning Wang, Jie Zhou, Xi Wang, Hong Gao, Zhe Jiang, and Nan Guan. Location is Key: Leveraging LLM for Functional Bug Localization in Verilog Design, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025.
• Bingkun Yao, Mun Choon Chan, Hong Gao, Zhe Jiang, and Nan Guan. Age-of-Information Minimization for Data Aggregation in Energy-Harvesting IoTs, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025. [Accepted, to appear]
• Ning Wang, Bingkun Yao, Jie Zhou, Yuchen Hu, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, and Nan Guan Large Language Model for Verilog Generation with Code-Structure-Guided Reinforcement Learning, International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD), 2025.
• Ning Wang, Bingkun Yao, Jie Zhou, Yuchen Hu, Xi Wang, Zhe Jiang, and Nan Guan VeriDebug: A Unified LLM for Verilog Debugging via Contrastive Embedding and Guided Correction, International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD), 2025.
• Xing Hu, Yuan Cheng, Dawei Yang, Zukang Xu, Zhihang Yuan, Jiangyong Yu, Chen Xu, Zhe Jiang, and Sifan Zhou. OstQuant: Refining Large Language Model Quantization with Orthogonal and Scaling Transformations for Better Distribution Fitting, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.
• Hui Wang, Yuan Cheng, Xiaomeng Han, Zhengpeng Zhao, Dawei Yang, and Zhe Jiang. Pushing the Limits of BFP on Narrow Precision LLM Inference, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.
• Jing Wang, Xingke Zheng, Jiaqi Gao, Yue Luo and Zhe Jiang. Brightness Control of Mn4+-Doped Ca2LaTaO6 Double Perovskite Red Emitters in a Noncontact Circuit System Authors, ChemistrySelect (CS), 2025.
• Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, and Mingsong Lv. Multi-Path Bound for Parallel Tasks With Conditional Branches , IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2025.
• Renshuang Jiang, Pan Dong, Yan Ding, Ran Wei, and Zhe Jiang. Thetis-lathe:Guidance on Reducing Residual Safety Obstacle in System Software From Rust Source Codes , Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2025.

• Zhe Jiang, Shuai Zhao, Ran Wei, Yiyang Gao, and Jing Li. A Cache/Algorithm Co-design for Parallel Real-Time Systems with Data Dependency on Multi/Many-core System-on-Chips , Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2024.
• Zhe Jiang, Shuai Zhao, Ran Wei, Gang Chen, Xin Si, and Nan Guan. ROTA-I/O: Hardware/Algorithm Co-design for Real-Time I/O Control with Improved Timing Accuracy and Robustness , Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2024.
• Jiapeng Guan, Ran Wei, Dean You, Yingquan Wang, Ruizhe Yang, Hui Wang, and Zhe Jiang. MESC: Re-thinking Algorithmic Priority/Criticality Inversion for Heterogeneous MCSs , Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2024. -- This is the first work done by my first student. Congrats, Jiapeng!
• XiaoXiang Fang, Pan Dong, Jun Luo, LeiLei Li, Yan Ding, and Zhe Jiang. Optimization of NUMA aware DNN Computing System , International Conference on Intelligent Computing, (ICIC), 2024.
• Ke Xu, Jialin Sun, Yuchen Hu, Xinwei Fang, Weiwei Shan, Xi Wang, and Zhe Jiang. MEIC: Re-thinking RTL Debug Automation using LLMs , International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2024. -- This is the first work supervised by me at the Southeast University. Great job, Ke, Jialin, and Yuchen!
• Ran Wei, Ruizhe Yang, Shijun Liu, Chongsheng Fan, Rong Zhou, Zekun Wu, Haochi Wang, Yifan Cai, and Zhe Jiang. Towards an Extensible Model-Based Digital Twin Framework for Space Launch Vehicles, Journal of Industrial Information Integration (JIII), 2024.
• Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Fisher, Nan Guan, Neil Audsley, and Zheng Dong. Hopscotch: A Hardware-Software Co-Design for Efficient Cache Resizing on Multi-Core SoCs , Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2024.
• Dawei Yang, Ning He, Xing Hu, Zhihang Yuan, Jiangyong Yu, Chen Xu, and Zhe Jiang. Post-training Quantization for Re-parameterization via Coarse & Fine Weight Splitting, Journal of System Architecture (JSA), 2024.
• Dawei Yang, Yan Wang, Ran Wei, Jiapeng Guan, Xiaohua Huang, Wei Cai, and Zhe Jiang. An Efficient Multi-task Learning CNN for Driver Attention Monitoring, Journal of System Architecture (JSA), 2024.
• Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, and Mingsong Lv. On the Degree of Parallelism for Parallel Real-Time Tasks, Journal of System Architecture (JSA), 2024.

• Zhe Jiang, Nathan Fisher, Nan Guan, and Zheng Dong. BlueFace: Integrating an Accelerator into the Core's Pipeline through Algorithm-Interface Co-Design for Real-Time SoCs , Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2023.
• Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Alan Burns, Neil Audsley, Zonghua Gu, and Ian Gray. A High-Resilience Imprecise Computing Architecture for Mixed-Criticality Systems, Transactions on Computers (TC), 2023.
• Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Neil Audsley, Nathan Fisher, Ian Gray, and Zheng Dong. AXI-IC^RT: Towards a Real-Time AXI-Interconnect for Highly Integrated SoCs, Transactions on Computers (TC), 2023.
• Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Ran Wei, Ian Gray, Zonghua Gu, Qingling Zhao, and Shuai Zhao. NPRC-I/O: An NoC-Based Real-Time I/O System With Reduced Contention and Enhanced Predictability, Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023.
• Ran Wei, Zhe Jiang, Haitao Mei, Konstantinos Barmpis, Simon Foster, Tim Kelly, and Yan Zhuang. Automated Model Based Assurance Case Management Using Constrained Natural Language, Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023.
• Ran Wei, Zhe Jiang, Xiaoran Guo, Ruizhe Yang, Haitao Mei, Athanasios Zolotas, and Tim Kelly. DECISIVE: Designing Critical Systems With Iterative Automated Safety Analysis, Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2023.
• Renshuang Jiang, Pan Dong, Yan Ding, Ran Wei, and Zhe Jiang. Thetis: A Booster for Building Safer Systems Using the Rust Programming Language, Applied Science (AP), 2023. -- This is the first work supervised by me. Good job, Renshuang!

• Ran Wei, Zhe Jiang, Xiaoran Guo, Haitao Mei, Athanasios Zolotas, and Tim Kelly. Designing Critical Systems with Iterative Automated Safety Analysis, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2022.
• Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Neil Audsley, Nathan Fisher, Weisong Shi, and Zheng Dong. BlueScale: Scalable Memory Architecture for Real-Time Computing on Highly Integrated SoCs, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2022.
• Zhe Jiang, Ran Wei, Pan Dong, Yan Zhuang, Neil Audsley, and Ian Gray. Towards Time-Predictable Hardware Hypervisor for Many-core Embedded Systems, Transactions on Computers (TC), 2022.
• Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Yunfeng Ma, Nathan Fisher, and Zheng Dong. Towards Hard Real-Time and Energy-Efficient Virtualization for Many-core Embedded Systems, Transactions on Computers (TC), 2022.
• Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Neil Audsley, Nathan Fisher, and Zheng Dong. Towards an Energy-Efficient Quarter-Clairvoyant Mixed-Criticality System, Journal of System Architecture (JSA), 2022.
• Qingling Zhao, Mengfei Qu, Bo Huang, Zhe Jiang, and Haibo Zeng. Schedulability Analysis and Stack Size Minimization for Adaptive Mixed-Criticality Scheduling with Clairvoyance, Journal of System Architecture (JSA), 2022.

• Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Yunfeng Ma, Nathan Fisher, Neil Audsley, and Zheng Dong. I/O-GUARD: Hardware/Software Co-Design for Virtualization with Guaranteed Real-time Performance, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2021.
• Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, and Neil Audsley. HIART-MCS: High Resilience and Approximated Computing Architecture for Imprecise MCS, Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2021.
• Yankai Wang, Dawei Yang, Wei Zhang, Zhe Jiang, and Wenqiang Zhang. Adaptable Ensemble Distillation, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2021.
• Zhe Jiang, Shuai Zhao, Ran Wei, Dawei Yang, Richard Paterson, Nan Guan, and Yan Zhuang. Bridging the Pragmatic Gaps for Mixed-Criticality Systems in Automotive Industry, Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2021.
• Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Pan Dong, Ran Wei, Dawei Yang, Neil Audsley, and Nan Guan. Towards an Analysable, Scalable, Energy-Efficient Virtualization for Mixed-Criticality Systems, Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2021.
• Zhe Jiang, Ran Wei, Pan Dong, Qingling Zhao, Dizhong Zhu, Yankai Wang, Neil Audsley, and Yan Zhuang. PSpSys: Exploring Real-time Hybrid-Criticality System on ARM TrustZone Technology, Journal of System Architecture (JSA), 2021.

• Shuai Zhao, Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Iain Bate, Ibrahim Habli, and Wanli Chang. Timing-accurate General-purpose I/O for Multi-and Many-core Systems: Scheduling and Hardware Support., Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2020.
• Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Fisher, Neil Audsley, and Zheng Dong. Pythia-MCS: Enabling Quarter-Clairvoyance in Mixed-Criticality Systems, Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2020.
• Zhe Jiang, Shuai Zhao, Pan Dong, Dawei Yang, Ran Wei, Nan Guan, and Neil Audsley. Re-Thinking Mixed-Criticality Architecture for Automotive Industry, International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2020.
• Dawei Yang, Xinlei Li, Xiaotian Dai, Rui Zhang, Lizhe Qi, Wenqiang Zhang, and Zhe Jiang. All in One Network for Driver Attention Monitoring, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2020.
• Pan Dong, Zhe Jiang, Alan Burns, Yan Ding, and Jun Ma. Build real-time communication for hybrid dual-OS system, Journal of System Architecture (JSA), 2020.

• Zhe Jiang, Neil Audsley, Pan Dong, Nan Guan, Xiaotian Dai, and Lifeng Wei. MCS-IOV: Real-Time I/O Virtualization for Mixed-Criticality Systems, Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2019.
• Zhe Jiang, Neil Audsley, and Pan Dong. BlueIO: A Scalable Real-time Hardware I/O Virtualization System for Many-core Embedded Systems, Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2019.
• Zhe Jiang. How to build a mixed-criticality system in industry-from the perspective of system architecture, Workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems (WMC), 2019.

• Zhe Jiang, Neil Audsley, and Pan Dong. BlueVisor: A Scalable Real-time Hardware Hypervisor for Many-core Embedded Systems, Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2018.
• Pan Dong, Alan Burns, Zhe Jiang, and Xiangke Liao. Tzdks: A new trustzone-based dual-criticality system with balanced performance, International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), 2018.

• Zhe Jiang, and Neil Audsley. VCDC: The Virtualized Complicated Device Control, Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2017.
• Zhe Jiang, and Neil Audsley. GPIOCP: Timing-accurate General Purpose I/O Controller for Many-core Real-time Systems, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2017.