Changran Xu

The Chinese University of Hong Kong PhD Student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

I am Changran Xu, I earned a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in August 2024. Currently a PhD student at CUHK, I am engaged in various exciting projects related to LLM, GNN, and Machine Learning.
I welcome all opportunities for discussion, learning, and collaboration. If you are interested in my work or believe there may be potential for collaboration, don’t hesitate to reach out! I am actively seeking opportunities for collaboration!

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News
2025
One paper accepted by ACL 2025 Findings.
May 16
One paper accepted by LAD'25.
May 09
One paper accepted by DAC'25.
Feb 15
One paper accepted by ICLR'25 as a Spotlight.
Jan 23
2024
One paper accepted by Advanced Science.
Dec 29
Our team's dataset ranked 4th place among participating teams and won the Honorable Mention Award at the LLM4HWDesign @ ICCAD 2024
Oct 16

🎓 Education

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    PhD in Computer Science 2025.08 - 20??.??

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

    BSc Computer Science, First Class Honours 2020.09 - 2024.08

  • Johns Hopkins University

    Johns Hopkins University

    Visiting Student 2024.06 - 2024.08

  • Peking University

    Peking University

    Summer School 2021.06 - 2021.07 & 2022.06 - 2022.07

💼 Experience

  • National Center of Technology Innovation for EDA, Nanjing

    National Center of Technology Innovation for EDA, Nanjing

    Algorithm Engineer 2024.05 - 2025.08

  • Flourish Entertainment Agent Company, Hong Kong

    Flourish Entertainment Agent Company, Hong Kong

    Web Developer Assistant 2023.07 - 2023.08

  • Legal Expression, Hong Kong

    Legal Expression, Hong Kong

    Full-Stack Developer (Entrepreneurship) 2023.05 - 2023.08

  • Hongtai Water Resources Information Technology Co, Ltd, Ningbo

    Hongtai Water Resources Information Technology Co, Ltd, Ningbo

    Front-End Engineer Trainee 2022.05 - 2022.08

🔬 Research

  • Large Circuit Model

    Large Circuit Model

    Research Assistant, supervised by Prof. XU Qiang 2024.05 - Present

  • Medical Imaging Analysis

    Medical Imaging Analysis

    Research Intern, supervised by Prof. Alan Yuille and Dr. Zhou Zongwei 2024.06 - 2024.08

  • SmartNIC Performance Profiling and Prediction

    SmartNIC Performance Profiling and Prediction

    Research Assistant, supervised by Prof. XU Hong 2023.06 - 2023.08

🏆 Honors & Awards

Selected Publications (view all )
Speculative Decoding for Verilog: Speed and Quality, All in One

Changran Xu*, Yi Liu*, Yunhao Zhou, Shan Huang, Ningyi Xu, Qiang Xu (* equal contribution)

ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025 DAC

Speculative Decoding for Verilog: Speed and Quality, All in One

Changran Xu*, Yi Liu*, Yunhao Zhou, Shan Huang, Ningyi Xu, Qiang Xu (* equal contribution)

ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025 DAC

DeepRTL: Bridging Verilog Understanding and Generation with a Unified Representation Model

Yi Liu, Changran Xu, Yunhao Zhou, Zeju Li, Qiang Xu

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025 ICLRSpotlight

[Paper] [Code]

DeepRTL: Bridging Verilog Understanding and Generation with a Unified Representation Model

Yi Liu, Changran Xu, Yunhao Zhou, Zeju Li, Qiang Xu

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025 ICLRSpotlight

[Paper] [Code]

Evaluating Text-to-Image Generative Models: An Empirical Study on Human Image Synthesis

Muxi Chen*, Yi Liu*, Jian Yi, Changran Xu, Qiuxia Lai, Hongliang Wang, Tsung-Yi Ho, Qiang Xu (* equal contribution)

arXiv 2024 Preprint

[Paper] [Code]

Evaluating Text-to-Image Generative Models: An Empirical Study on Human Image Synthesis

Muxi Chen*, Yi Liu*, Jian Yi, Changran Xu, Qiuxia Lai, Hongliang Wang, Tsung-Yi Ho, Qiang Xu (* equal contribution)

arXiv 2024 Preprint

[Paper] [Code]