Our Culture – SOS: Sharing, Open, Systematic!

Principal Investigator

Xinfei Guo, Ph.D.
Xinfei Guo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Advisor
UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
xinfei.guo@sjtu.edu.cn · +86-21-3420-6765 Ext. 4191
Xinfei Guo received his B.Eng degree from Xidian University in China and M.S degree in ECE from the University of Florida in 2010 and 2012 respectively.  He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2018. He was advised by Prof. Mircea Stan. He has been worked in semiconductor industry for over 4 years, including experience at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as an adjunct researcher during his Ph.D. and working as a Senior SoC Design Engineer for ~3 years at NVIDIA (US) after graduation. Since May 2021, he joined JI. The blending of his academia and industry chip product development experiences led to his research interests to solve practical yet challenging research problems in chip design, including exploring intelligent solutions and methodologies for chip design and designing efficient circuits, architectures and systems that are capable of running intelligent tasks.

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Jani Babu Shaik, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
since 10/2024
Analog Mixed Signal Design Engineer, Cyient Ltd. (2022 – 2024)
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, India (2017 – 2022)
M. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India (2014 – 2016)
B. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology, Guntur, India (2009 – 2013)
VLSI Design Circuit Reliability

Ph.D. Students

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Xiaotian Zhao
Ph.D. Student
since 08/2022
B.S. in Computer Science, Xidian University (2018 – 2022)
AI/ML Hardware Floorplanning Placement
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Runxi Wang
Ph.D. Student
since 08/2023
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019 – 2023)
Computer Architecture 3DICs FPGAs
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Ruge Xu
Ph.D. Student
since 08/2023
M.S. in Big Data Analytics, University of Michigan (2021 – 2023)
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2018 – 2022)
HW/SW Co-design for Efficient AI
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Xinyue Wu
Ph.D. Student
since 08/2024
B.S. in Telecommunication Engineering, East China Normal University (2020 – 2024)
LLM4EDA AI4EDA Dataset Augmentation
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Fan Hu
Ph.D. Student
since 08/2024
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020 – 2024)
AI4ED Circuit Reliability Timing Prediction
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Zijiao Zhang
Ph.D. Student (co-advised)
since 08/2024
B.S. in AI, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2020 – 2024)
AI LLM
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Ting Lin
Ph.D. Student
since 08/2025
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021 – 2025)
Computer Systems and Architecture

Master of Science Students

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Jacob Raby
M.S. Student
since 08/2024
B.S. in Computer Engineering & Chinese, University of Mississippi, US (2020 – 2024)
3DIC Thermal-aware Design
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Zixuan Li
M.S. Student
since 08/2025
B.S. in Software Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (2020 – 2024)
EDA Physical Design
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Haoyu Wang
M.S. Student
since 08/2026
B.S. in Software Engineering, East China Normal University (2022 – 2026)
LLM for EDA

No current visiting students or undergraduate researchers.

Graduate Alumni (2)
  • Yichen Cai, M.S. (08/2023 – 03/2026) → Cadence
  • Linyu Zhu, M.S. (08/2022 – 06/2025) → NVIDIA
Undergraduate Alumni (Partial List) (14)
  • Clarke Chong, 07/2025 – 09/2025
  • Ziye Chen, 10/2023 – 06/2024 → M.Sc at Imperial College London
  • Haomiao Xu, 09/2022 – 01/2024 → M.Sc at Cornell Tech
  • Qilin Ye, 02/2022 – 08/2023 → M.Sc at UC Davis
  • Yujia Sun, 03/2022 – 08/2023 → M.Sc at USC
  • Tsai-Ning Lien, 10/2022 – 05/2023 → M.S at USC
  • Yue Gu, 09/2022 – 03/2023 → M.S at SJTU
  • Yichen Wei, 01/2022 – 01/2023 → Ph.D. at SJTU
  • Xiangdong Wei, 05/2021 – 11/2022 → Ph.D. at U of Michigan
  • Longxing Shi,08/2021 – 03/2023 → M.S at USC
  • Hongfei Mei, 08/2021 – 03/2023 → M.S at U of Michigan
  • Yuqi Gu, 11/2021 – 10/2022 → M.S. at SJTU
  • Zhengping Zhu, 08/2021 – 06/2022 → M.S. at Columbia University → Ph.D. at NYU
  • Yihua Liu, 06/2021 – 10/2021 → M.S. at SJTU → Xiaomi