Ph.D. Candidate @ Southeast University · SEU-ACAL Lab · AI for EDA · RTL Verification
Hi! I am Junhao Ye (叶俊豪), a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Integrated Circuits at Southeast University, advised by Prof. Zhe Jiang. I received my B.S. in Microelectronics Science and Engineering from Shenzhen University, ranking 1/103 in the comprehensive evaluation.
My research focuses on AI for Electronic Design Automation (EDA), especially LLM-aided RTL verification. I study UVM-based automation spanning testbench and stimulus generation, simulation feedback and refinement; assertion generation; and SoC security detection.
I have published 4 papers at the leading EDA conferences ICCAD and DAC. I am also a research intern at the National Center for Technology Innovation in EDA, where some of my research work has been integrated into ChatDV to support end-to-end automated UVM verification for small IPs. I have received the National Scholarship, Excellent Star of SZU, and Jicui Graduate honors.
你好！我是叶俊豪，东南大学集成电路学院博士生，师从江哲教授。本科毕业于深圳大学，专业排名 1/103。我的研究聚焦 AI for EDA，重点关注以 UVM 为核心的自动化验证闭环。
As agile hardware development speeds up modern SoC iteration, verification has become the dominant front-end bottleneck, consuming nearly 70% of the cycle. My research explores LLM-aided RTL verification to address this challenge.
LLM-aided RTL verification in three directions.
UVM automation from modules and IP blocks to subsystems and SoCs, spanning testbench and stimulus generation.
Automated assertion generation from design intent, enabling continuous checking across the verification flow.
Security analysis and detection for SoCs, strengthening trustworthy system-level verification.
Selected peer-reviewed work. My name is in each author list.
Worked on LLM-aided automation for UVM-based RTL verification, including testbench and stimulus generation. The workflow was integrated as a verification tool in ChatDV (project note), enabling end-to-end small IP-level UVM verification, reducing verification time to hours with a 20x speedup.
Our team placed second in the Hack@DAC 2026 competition.
Hack@DAC is a hardware-security challenge co-located with DAC. Teams identify security-critical hardware and firmware vulnerabilities, demonstrate exploits, and propose mitigations.
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