A portrait of Ruijie Gao

Ruijie Gao

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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 NEWS

2025.08 Started my PhD at the University of Michigan.
2025.05 Selected as an ISCA 2025 student travel grant awardee.
2025.03 Our paper Assassyn is accepted to ISCA 2025.
2025.02 Joining CSE at the University of Michigan as a PhD student in Fall 2025.

RESEARCH AREAS

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.

SMT equivalence model-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.

HLS DSL simulation

Publications

A selection of my peer-reviewed articles and papers.

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

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

Teaching & Mentoring

TEACHING ASSISTANT

UESTC2004

Lead Teaching Assistant
Embedded Processors

UESTC × Glasgow

Spring 2024 Spring 2025

UESTC1008

Teaching Assistant
Microelectronic Systems

UESTC × Glasgow

Spring 2024 Spring 2025

UESTC1005

Teaching Assistant
Introductory Programming

UESTC × Glasgow

Fall 2022 Fall 2023 Fall 2024

STUDENT MENTORING

Sara Ablove

Undergraduate

University of Michigan

Nov 2025 — Present

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