Yao Lai
Scholar

Yao Lai

Google Scholar ID: 9Oxeo68AAAAJ
HKU | UT Austin
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H-index
8
 
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Publications
13
 
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Contact
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Publications
10 items
AgentPerfBench: A Benchmarking and Evaluation Suite for Inference Performance of Agentic LLMs
2026
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LithoGRPO: Fast Inverse Lithography via GRPO Reinforced Flow Matching
2026
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AnalogRetriever: Learning Cross-Modal Representations for Analog Circuit Retrieval
2026
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MemExplorer: Navigating the Heterogeneous Memory Design Space for Agentic Inference NPUs
2026
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KernelCraft: Benchmarking for Agentic Close-to-Metal Kernel Generation on Emerging Hardware
2026
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3
Beyond GEMM-Centric NPUs: Enabling Efficient Diffusion LLM Sampling
2026
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Re$^{ ext{2}}$MaP: Macro Placement by Recursively Prototyping and Packing Tree-based Relocating
2025
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Principle-Guided Verilog Optimization: IP-Safe Knowledge Transfer via Local-Cloud Collaboration
2025
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Resume
Academic Achievements
  • NeurIPS Scholar Award (2024)
  • Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (2021)
  • Outstanding Graduate of Software School, Tsinghua University (2020)
  • Outstanding Bachelor Thesis Award, Fudan University (2017)
  • Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai, China (2017)
  • National Scholarship, China (2015)
  • Published multiple top-tier conference papers, including NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight, equal contribution) and AAAI 2025 (Oral)