C-lab at GW

Weidong Cao

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering & Applied Science

The George Washington University

Email: weidong.cao AT gwu.edu; Office: 6615 SEH

I am a tenure-track assistant professor (starting Fall 2023) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The George Washington University. I previously worked as a principal engineer at TSMC, San Jose, CA. Before that, I was a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University in St. Louis, where I also earned my Ph.D. I received my M.S. from the Institute of Microelectronics at Tsinghua University in 2016 and my B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2013. My research work has received multiple Best Paper Awards/Nominees from conferences such as DAC, DATE, and ISLPED.

I am leading the C-lab at The George Washington University. In C-lab, we currently aim to harness and integrate quantum physics, AI, integrated circuits, computer architecture, and information theory to build efficient, reliable, and high-performance edge computing systems for a broad range of sensor-rich physical AI applications and scientific discovery.

I'm actively recruiting self-motivated PhD students at Spring/Fall 2027 to join my group. Major topics for this recruitment cycle include Agentic AI, physical AI, VLSI design, and computer architecture, etc. Please refer to the Openings page for more details.

News

07/2026: Two papers are accepted by IEEE/ACM ICCAD 2026. Congrats to Qiufeng and Shikai.

06/2026: One collaborative paper is accepted by The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026. Congrats to Yiwen.Thanks to our collaborator, Prof. Chuchu Chen from MAE at GWU.

05/2026: Three papers are accepted by the IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (ICLAD), 2026. Congrats to Qiufeng and thanks to our collaborators.

03/2026: One collaborative paper is accepted by the IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2026. Thanks to our collaborator, Prof. Xin from UCF.

11/2025: One regular paper is accepted by the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) 2026. Congrats to Yiwen and Qiufeng.

11/2025: One collaborative paper is accepted by the IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) 2026. Thanks to our collaborator, Prof. Xin from UCF.

10/2025: One co-authored paper is accepted by TCAD. Thanks to our collaborator, Prof. Zou from SJTU.

08/2025: One invited paper is accepted by IEEE/ACM ICCAD 2025. Congrats to Shikai and Qiufeng, and thanks to our Collaborators, Prof. Chi from Rice University and Prof. Zhang from Northeastern University.

07/2025: Received GWU CDRF support. This is a collaborative project with the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Thanks to our OVPR.

05/2025: Two regular papers are accepted by IEEE/ACM ISLPED 2025. Congrats to Yiwen and Qiufeng.

05/2025: One collaborative paper is accepted by ICML 2025.

03/2025: Two Late Breaking Results are accepted by DAC 2025. Congrats to Yiwen and Shikai.

02/2025: Two collaborative papers are accepted by DAC 2025.

01/2025: Two papers (one collaborative) are accepted by ISCAS 2025. Congrats to Zhiqiang.

01/2025: One collaborative paper is accepted by ICLR 2025 as a Spotlight (<5.1%).

10/2024: Received the very competitive AIDRFIC award from NATCAST as a co-PI. Great thanks to our team leader, Prof. David Pan from UT Austin, and the support of NATCAST.

07/2024: Received GWU UFF support. Thanks to our OVPR.

07/2024: One paper is accepted by TCAD.

05/2024: One co-authored paper is accepted by ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems.

04/2024: Yiwen receives A. Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Award from DAC 2024 (Student).

02/2024: One paper is accepted by DAC 2024.

11/2023: One paper is accepted by TCAD.

03/2023: One co-authored paper is accepted by ISCA 2023.

02/2023: One paper is accepted by DAC 2023.

02/2023: One paper is accepted by ICLR 2023.

01/2023: Two papers are accepted by ISCAS 2023 and invited for TCAS-II Special Issue.

07/2026: Received one NSF grant as lead PI. Great thanks to NSF for the support.

06/2026: Received two NSF grants. One as lead PI, the other as senior personnel. Great thanks to NSF for the support.

04/2026: Received an NSF grant as lead PI. Great thanks to NSF for the support.