ABOUT ME · EDGE AI COMPUTING
Hello, I’m Wenyao Zhao.
I am a graduate student in the integrated M.S.–Ph.D. program in Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering at the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, advised by Prof. Liyuan Liu. I received my B.Eng. from the School of Microelectronics at Hefei University of Technology.
My work focuses on the architecture and software stack of custom AI processors. I contribute to custom datapaths, ISA extensions, and digital-system verification while building compilation and deployment infrastructure that spans model parsing, hardware-aware quantization, memory planning, instruction mapping, and code generation. This work enables correct and efficient execution of AI workloads on in-house ASICs and FPGA prototypes.
algorithm and deployment work
designed and verified
on algorithms and accelerators
EDUCATION
Education
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Semiconductors, CAS
Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, combined M.S.–Ph.D. program(recommendation for graduate study without examination) · Beijing, China
Hefei University of Technology · National Exemplary School of Microelectronics
B.Eng. in Integrated Circuit Design and Integrated Systems · Hefei, China
SKILLS & TOOLKIT
Skills & Toolkit
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AI Processors & Digital Systems
RISC-V custom ISA extensions, SIMD and systolic arrays, compute dataflows, fixed-point datapaths, accelerator integration, and RTL design
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Compilation & Deployment for Custom Processors
ONNX graph parsing, operator fusion, static memory planning, tensor-layout transformation, instruction mapping, and code generation
03
Hardware-Aware Model Optimization
CNN / Transformer adaptation, fixed-point numerical modeling, operator constraints, pruning, QAT / PTQ, and knowledge distillation
04
Verification & Performance Analysis
MATLAB reference models, VCS RTL simulation, FPGA prototyping and board-level testing, numerical consistency checks, and cycle / memory-bottleneck analysis
Development environmentVerilog / SystemVerilog · VCS / ModelSim · DC · ICC · Vivado · Python / PyTorch · MATLAB · C / C++ · Git / Linux
SELECTED PROJECTS
Selected Projects
AI Model Compilation and Deployment Toolchain for a Custom SIMD Vision Processor
Developed an AI compilation and deployment toolchain for a next-generation custom SIMD vision processor, replacing manual assembly programming with an operator-template library and automated code generation.
Edge AI Accelerator with Custom RISC-V Matrix-Multiplication Instructions
Designed and implemented a tightly coupled edge-AI coprocessor for the open-source Hummingbird E203, integrating custom matrix-multiplication instructions with a weight-stationary systolic array to explore hardware–software co-design for AI MCUs.
Training, Quantization, and Deployment Toolchain for CNN–Transformer Models on a Custom Systolic-Array Processor
Contributed to the architecture of a next-generation vision processor for CNN–Transformer workloads and developed a full-stack workflow spanning model training, quantization, compilation, and deployment.
Undergraduate Thesis: Single-Object Tracking for an Edge Vision Processor
Designed and implemented SiamVC, a lightweight Siamese tracker tailored to a custom vision processor, and completed the full workflow from model compression and compiler adaptation to on-chip deployment.
Additional Projects
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
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2024
An Energy-Efficient Dehazing Neural Network Accelerator Based on E2 AOD-Net
Zhihao Zhang, Gaoming Du, Zhenmin Li, Qingran Kang, Wenyao Zhao, Xiaolei Wang · Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 21(6): 197 · JCR Q2, IF 3.0
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2024
An Overview of Joint Optimization Methods for Neural Network Compression
Xin Ning, Wenyao Zhao, Yixin Zong, et al. · CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems, 19(1): 36–57 · PKU Core, CCF-C
HONORS
Honors & Awards
- Merit Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- President's Award, HFUT; Outstanding Graduate of Anhui Province
- National Scholarship; First-Class Scholarship; Outstanding Merit Student, HFUT
- Third Prize, National College Student Integrated Circuit Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Central China Division
- First Prize, Anhui Provincial Robotics Competition, MCU and Embedded Systems Track
- First-Class Scholarship and Merit Student, HFUT
- Second-Class Scholarship and Merit Student, HFUT