I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020, supervised by Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young. Before that, I obtained my B.Eng. degree in Information Engineering from the Honors Youth Program of Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2016. My research interests include electronic design automation, hardware security, and combinatorial optimization.

• Concerted wire lifting: Enabling secure and cost-effective split manufacturing [preprint] [code] [code]
  • Satwik Patnaik, Mohammed Ashraf, Haocheng Li, Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 41, no. 2, pp 266-280, 2022 (TCAD)
• Pin-Accessible Legalization for Mixed-Cell-Height Circuits [preprint] [code]
  • Haocheng Li, Wing-Kai Chow, Gengjie Chen, Bei Yu, Evangeline F.Y. Young
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 41, no. 1, pp 143-154, 2022 (TCAD)
• Deep Learning Analysis for Split Manufactured Layouts with Routing Perturbation [preprint] [code] [code]
  • Haocheng Li, Satwik Patnaik, Mohammed Ashraf, Haoyu Yang, Johann Knechtel, Bei Yu, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Evangeline F.Y. Young
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 40, no. 10, pp 1995-2008, 2021 (TCAD)
• Dr. CU: Detailed Routing by Sparse Grid Graph and Minimum-Area-Captured Path Search [preprint] [code]
  • Gengjie Chen, Chak-Wa Pui, Haocheng Li, and Evangeline F.Y. Young
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 1902–1915, 2020 (TCAD)
• A Novel Method of Micro-Tomography Geometric Angle Calibration with Random Phantom [preprint]
  • Haocheng Li, Wei Hong, Yu Liu, and Xuanqin Mou
  • Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 641-652, 2017

• Dr. CU 2.0: A Scalable Detailed Routing Framework with Correct-by-Construction Design Rule Satisfaction [preprint] [slides] [code]
  • Haocheng Li, Gengjie Chen, Bentian Jiang, Jingsong Chen, and Evangeline F.Y. Young
  • The 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Nov. 4-7, 2019, Westminster, CO, USA (ICCAD 2019)
• Attacking Split Manufacturing from a Deep Learning Perspective [preprint] [slides] [poster] [code] [code]
  • Haocheng Li, Satwik Patnaik, Abhrajit Sengupta, Haoyu Yang, Knechtel Johann, Bei Yu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, and Ozgur Sinanoglu
  • The 56th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, June 2-6, 2019, Las Vegas, NV, USA (DAC 2019)
• Detailed Routing by Sparse Grid Graph and Minimum-Area-Captured Path Search [preprint] [slides] [code]
  • Gengjie Chen, Chak-Wa Pui, Haocheng Li, Jingsong Chen, Bentian Jiang, and Evangeline F.Y. Young
  • The 24th IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Jan. 21-24, 2019, Tokyo, Japan (ASPDAC 2019)
• Routability-Driven and Fence-Aware Legalization for Mixed-Cell-Height Circuits [preprint] [slides] [poster] [code]
  • Haocheng Li, Wing-Kai Chow, Gengjie Chen, Evangeline F.Y. Young, and Bei Yu
  • The 55th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, June 24-29, 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA (DAC 2018)
• A Two-Step Search Engine For Large Scale Boolean Matching Under NP3 Equivalence [preprint]
  • Chak-Wa Pui, Peishan Tu, Haocheng Li, Gengjie Chen, and Evangeline F.Y. Young
  • The 23rd IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Jan. 22-25, 2018, Jeju Island, Korea (ASPDAC 2018)
• Bilinear Lithography Hotspot Detection [preprint] [slides]
  • Hang Zhang, Fengyuan Zhu, Haocheng Li, Evangeline F.Y. Young, and Bei Yu
  • The 26th ACM International Symposium on Physical Design, Mar. 19-22, 2017, Portland, OR, USA (ISPD 2017) Best Paper Award

• Advanced Node Physical Design, Attack and Anti-attack [preprint]
  • Haocheng Li
  • Ph.D., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jul., 2020, Sha Tin, NT, Hong Kong

• First Place at ISPD 2019 Contest on Initial Detailed Routing
• Second Place at ISPD 2018 Contest on Initial Detailed Routing
• First Place at ICCAD 2016 Contest on Non-Exact Projective NPNP Boolean Matching
• National Scholarship in 2013

• Software Engineer Intern at Cadence Design Systems