University of Michigan · CSE · PhD Student

Ruijie Gao

I am a PhD student supervised by Prof. Nathaniel Bleier, in the Computer Science and Engineering Division at the University of Michigan. My research focuses on computer architecture and electronic design automation — with particular emphasis on automated reasoning, and agile hardware design.

Previously, B.Eng. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Glasgow × UESTC). I worked closely with Prof. Jian Weng at KAUST and Dr. Yu Zeng during undergrad.

Recent activity

News

Aug 2025
PhD Started my PhD at the University of Michigan.
May 2025
Award Selected as an ISCA 2025 student travel grant awardee.
Mar 2025
Paper Our paper Assassyn is accepted to ISCA 2025.
Feb 2025
Admit Joining CSE at the University of Michigan as a PhD student in Fall 2025.
Research areas

What I work on.

§ 02 — RESEARCH
01 — Verification

Formal Methods for Hardware Verification

SMT-driven equivalence checking and model refinement for accelerator designs; developing tractable abstractions that preserve functional intent while cutting proof time.

SMTequivalencemodel-checking
02 — Automation

Agile Hardware Design

Unifying architectural simulation and RTL implementation under one abstraction, so architects can iterate with software-like velocity — without sacrificing cycle-accurate fidelity.

HLSDSLsimulation
Selected publications

Publications.

§ 03 — PUBLICATIONS
2026 arXiv
Preprint

ATLAAS: Automatic Tensor-Level Abstraction of Accelerator Semantics

Ruijie Gao, Haoran Jin, Jirong Yang, Nathaniel Bleier
arXiv preprint · 2026
2025 ISCA
Accepted

Assassyn: A Unified Abstraction for Architectural Simulation and Implementation

Jian Weng, Boyang Han, Derui Gao, Ruijie Gao, Wanning Zhang, An Zhong, Ceyu Xu, Jihao Xin, Yangzhixin Luo, Lisa Wu Wills, Marco Canini
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) · 2025
2024 DAC
Accepted

Edge-LLM: Enabling Efficient Large Language Model Adaptation on Edge Devices via Unified Compression and Adaptive Layer Voting

Zhongzhi Yu, Zheng Wang, Yuhan Li, Ruijie Gao, Xiaoya Zhou, Sreenidhi Reddy Bommu, Yang Zhao, Yingyan Lin
Design Automation Conference (DAC) · 2024
Mentorship & instruction

Teaching & Mentoring.

§ 04 — TEACHING
Teaching Assistant
UESTC2004
UESTC × Glasgow
Lead Teaching Assistant

Embedded Processors

Spring 2024Spring 2025
UESTC1008
UESTC × Glasgow
Teaching Assistant

Microelectronic Systems

Spring 2024Spring 2025
UESTC1005
UESTC × Glasgow
Teaching Assistant

Introductory Programming

Fall 2022Fall 2023Fall 2024
Student Mentoring

Sara Ablove

University of Michigan
Undergraduate
Nov 2025 — Present