Career Profile
I'm a senior engineer at Qualcomm and a Ph.D. candidate within abkgroup, which is one of the most famous research groups in VLSI/CAD area. I specialize in programming with solving an optimization problem based on C/C++/Python/Tcl.
My passion for programming was fostered by physical design projects. I was the main developer of OpenROAD which is supported by Google and POSH projects from DARPA. OpenROAD was aimed for building the open-source physical design flows and I was the main developer in Task 8 (Floorplan) and Task 9 (Placement). I developed, rewrote, and maintained three projects; TritonMP, RePlAce, and OpenDP (all tools are available as 'macro_placement', 'global_placement', and 'legalize_placement' Tcl commands). My contributed tools are widely used in OpenROAD. Nowadays, OpenROAD has generated 600+ IC tapeouts successfully.
Experiences
Dissertation: Physical Design Methods and Research Infrastructure for Advanced VLSI Technologies
Dissertation: Clip-Shifting-Aware Lithography Pattern Classification