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Yujie (Norah) Zhao 赵雨洁
CSE Ph.D. Student @ UCSD
zhaoyj04[at]gmail.com

Description of the icon About

Hey there! I'm Yujie Zhao, a first-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Jishen Zhao in Computer Science and Engineering Department of UC San Diego, starting in 2024. I am now aiming to build efficient systems for machine learning. Before coming to UCSD, I received my B.S. degree in Applied Physics at University of Science and Technology of China. I used to be an undergraduate research intern in EIC Lab at GaTech under the supervision of Professor Yingyan (Celine) Lin and Yang (Katie) Zhao. Previsouly I have also done research about RL theory under the supervision of Professor Huazheng Wang. I have a broad interest in combining machine learning and computer systems, with a special focus on hardware-algorithm co-design. Feel free to contact me if you share any common interests!

Description of the icon Recent Research Interests

1. LLM Agents for Code, especially for Verilog.
2. Efficient Scheduling Systems for LLM Agents.
3. LLM Test-Time Scaling.

Description of the icon News

  • One first-author paper accepted to DAC 2025
  • One first-author paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024
  • One first-author paper accepted to DAC 2024

Description of the icon First Author Publications (Full List on Google Scholar)

RA-PbRL: Provably Efficient Risk-Aware Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning

Yujie Zhao, Jose Aguilar Escamilla, Weyl Lu, Huazheng Wang.
Accepted by NeurIPS 2024, CCF A
[Paper] [Code] [Poster]

MAGE: A Multi-Agent Engine for Automated RTL Code Generation

Yujie Zhao* , Hejia Zhang* , Hanxian Huang, Zhongming Yu, Jishen Zhao
Accepted by DAC 2025, CCF A
[Paper] [Code] [Poster]
3D-Carbon: An Analytical Carbon Modeling Tool for 3D and 2.5D Integrated Circuits

Yujie Zhao, Yang Zhao, Cheng Wan, Yingyan (Celine) Lin
Accepted by DAC 2024, CCF A
[Paper] [Code] [Slides] [Poster]

Description of the icon Selected Collaborated Publications and Manusripts

1. OrcaLoca: An LLM Agent Framework for Software Issue Localization
Zhongming Yu*, Hejia Zhang*,Yujie Zhao, Hanxian Huang, Matrix Yao, Ke Ding, Jishen Zhao [Paper] [Code]
2. Instant-RAG: Enabling Instant Retrieval-Augmented Generation in LLMs via In-Storage Processing
Zhongzhi Yu, Yujie Zhao, Sixu Li, Yujie Wang, Chaojian Li, Amrit Khera, Shruti Belgali, Yang Zhao, Yingyan (Celine) Lin
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