Publications

I am fortunate to collaborate with many talented researchers and engineers. The list below is grouped by year; please see Google Scholar for the most up-to-date record.

2026

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Jie Zhang, Jiapeng Guan, Hao Zhou, Xiaomeng Han, Tinglue Wang, Ran Wei, and Zhe Jiang From Characterisation to Microarchitecture: Designing an Elegant and Reliable BFP-Based NPU Design Automation Conference DAC 2026
  5. 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 Subsystem-level RTL Verification Design Automation Conference DAC 2026
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Jia Xiong, Runkai Li, Haowen Fang, Cheng Ni, Ziran Zhu, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, and Xi Wang ParetoPilot: Global Optimisation Reasoning on HLS Design-Space Exploration with LLMs Design Automation Conference DAC 2026
  10. 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
  11. Jiongzhe Su, Quanhai Zhu, Jie Zhou, Xiangyi Meng, Haoran Du, Huanghui Wang, Yusheng Yin, Bo Liu, Yan Cui, Zhe Jiang, and Hao Cai LLMVA: LLMs-Empowered Verilog-A Iteration for MRAM Design–Technology Co-Optimisation Design Automation Conference DAC 2026
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Hao Zhou, Jiapeng Guan, Jie Zhang, Ran Wei, Xudong Zhao, Zhe Jiang, and Xiangyang Ji S2VD: A Subspace-Aware SVD Method for Efficient LLM Compression International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 2026
  17. Jiangyong Yu, Xiaomeng Han, Xing Hu, Chen Xu, Zhe Jiang, and Dawei Yang NLI: Non-uniform Linear Interpolation Approximation of Nonlinear Operations for Efficient LLM Inference International Conference on Learning Representations ICLR 2026
  18. 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 Systems Architecture JSA 2026
  19. 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

2025

  1. 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
  2. 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!
  3. Dean You, Jieyu Jiang, Xiaoxuan Wang, Yushu Du, Zhihang Tan, Wenbo Xu, Hui Wang, Jiapeng Guan, Zhenyuan Wang, 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
  4. 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
  5. Zhe Jiang, Minli Liao, Sam Ainsworth, Dean You, and Timothy Jones MEEK: Re-thinking Heterogeneous Parallel Error-Detection Architecture for Real-World Out-of-Order Superscalar Processors Design Automation Conference DAC 2025
  6. Zhe Jiang, Sam Ainsworth, and Timothy Jones FireGuard: A Generalised Microarchitecture for Fine-Grained Security Analysis on Out-of-Order Superscalar Cores Design Automation Conference DAC 2025
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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 Quantisation Accelerator for Large Language Models Design Automation Conference DAC 2025
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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 Behaviours Design Automation Conference DAC 2025
  13. 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
  14. Bingkun Yao, Ning Wang, Jie Zhou, Xi Wang, Hong Gao, Zhe Jiang, and Nan Guan Location is Key: Leveraging LLMs for Functional Bug Localisation in Verilog Design Design Automation Conference DAC 2025
  15. Bingkun Yao, Mun Choon Chan, Hong Gao, Zhe Jiang, and Nan Guan Age-of-Information Minimisation for Data Aggregation in Energy-Harvesting IoTs Design Automation Conference DAC 2025
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. Xing Hu, Yuan Cheng, Dawei Yang, Zukang Xu, Zhihang Yuan, Jiangyong Yu, Chen Xu, Zhe Jiang, and Sifan Zhou OstQuant: Refining Large Language Model Quantisation with Orthogonal and Scaling Transformations for Better Distribution Fitting International Conference on Learning Representations ICLR 2025
  19. 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
  20. Jing Wang, Xingke Zheng, Jiaqi Gao, Yue Luo, and Zhe Jiang Brightness Control of Mn4+-Doped Ca2LaTaO6 Double-Perovskite Red Emitters in a Non-contact Circuit System ChemistrySelect CS 2025
  21. Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, and Mingsong Lv Multi-Path Bound for Parallel Tasks with Conditional Branches IEEE Transactions on Computers TC 2025
  22. Renshuang Jiang, Pan Dong, Yan Ding, Ran Wei, and Zhe Jiang Thetis-Lathe: Guidance on Reducing Residual Safety Obstacles in System Software from Rust Source Codes ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems TECS 2025

2024

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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 First paper by my first student — congratulations, Jiapeng!
  4. XiaoXiang Fang, Pan Dong, Jun Luo, LeiLei Li, Yan Ding, and Zhe Jiang Optimisation of NUMA-Aware DNN Computing Systems International Conference on Intelligent Computing ICIC 2024
  5. 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 First work supervised at Southeast University — great job, Ke, Jialin and Yuchen!
  6. 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
  7. 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 IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems TPDS 2024
  8. Dawei Yang, Ning He, Xing Hu, Zhihang Yuan, Jiangyong Yu, Chen Xu, and Zhe Jiang Post-training Quantisation for Re-parameterisation via Coarse & Fine Weight Splitting Journal of Systems Architecture JSA 2024
  9. 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 Systems Architecture JSA 2024
  10. Qingqiang He, Nan Guan, Zhe Jiang, and Mingsong Lv On the Degree of Parallelism for Parallel Real-Time Tasks Journal of Systems Architecture JSA 2024

2023

  1. 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
  2. Zhe Jiang, Xiaotian Dai, Alan Burns, Neil Audsley, Zonghua Gu, and Ian Gray A High-Resilience Imprecise Computing Architecture for Mixed-Criticality Systems IEEE Transactions on Computers TC 2023
  3. Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Neil Audsley, Nathan Fisher, Ian Gray, and Zheng Dong AXI-ICRT: Towards a Real-Time AXI Interconnect for Highly Integrated SoCs IEEE Transactions on Computers TC 2023
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Renshuang Jiang, Pan Dong, Yan Ding, Ran Wei, and Zhe Jiang Thetis: A Booster for Building Safer Systems Using the Rust Programming Language Applied Sciences AS 2023 First work supervised by me — good job, Renshuang!

2022

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Zhe Jiang, Ran Wei, Pan Dong, Yan Zhuang, Neil Audsley, and Ian Gray Towards Time-Predictable Hardware Hypervisor for Many-core Embedded Systems IEEE Transactions on Computers TC 2022
  4. Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Yunfeng Ma, Nathan Fisher, and Zheng Dong Towards Hard Real-Time and Energy-Efficient Virtualisation for Many-core Embedded Systems IEEE Transactions on Computers TC 2022
  5. Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Neil Audsley, Nathan Fisher, and Zheng Dong Towards an Energy-Efficient Quarter-Clairvoyant Mixed-Criticality System Journal of Systems Architecture JSA 2022
  6. Qingling Zhao, Mengfei Qu, Bo Huang, Zhe Jiang, and Haibo Zeng Schedulability Analysis and Stack-Size Minimisation for Adaptive Mixed-Criticality Scheduling with Clairvoyance Journal of Systems Architecture JSA 2022

2021

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

2020

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Zhe Jiang, Shuai Zhao, Pan Dong, Dawei Yang, Ran Wei, Nan Guan, and Neil Audsley Re-thinking Mixed-Criticality Architecture for the Automotive Industry International Conference on Computer Design ICCD 2020
  4. 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
  5. Pan Dong, Zhe Jiang, Alan Burns, Yan Ding, and Jun Ma Building Real-Time Communication for a Hybrid Dual-OS System Journal of Systems Architecture JSA 2020

2019

  1. Zhe Jiang, Neil Audsley, Pan Dong, Nan Guan, Xiaotian Dai, and Lifeng Wei MCS-IOV: Real-Time I/O Virtualisation for Mixed-Criticality Systems Real-Time Systems Symposium RTSS 2019
  2. Zhe Jiang, Neil Audsley, and Pan Dong BlueIO: A Scalable Real-Time Hardware I/O Virtualisation System for Many-core Embedded Systems ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems TECS 2019
  3. Zhe Jiang How to Build a Mixed-Criticality System in Industry — from the Perspective of System Architecture Workshop on Mixed-Criticality Systems WMC 2019

2018

  1. 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
  2. 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

2017

  1. Zhe Jiang and Neil Audsley VCDC: The Virtualised Complicated Device Control Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems ECRTS 2017
  2. 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