VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Hector Rodriguez Rodriguez
dblp:412/8259
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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
2 papers |
Electronic design automation · 62% Integrated circuit design · 29% Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures · 10% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Electronic design automation › physical design › parasitic extraction
capacitance extraction |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DeepRWCap: Neural-Guided Random-Walk Capacitance Solver for IC Design · AAAI 2026 |
Integrated circuit design
analog and mixed-signal circuits |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Few-shot Learning on AMS Circuits and Its Application to Parasitic Capacitance Prediction · DAC 2025 |
Electronic design automation › machine learning for EDA
circuit representation learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Few-shot Learning on AMS Circuits and Its Application to Parasitic Capacitance Prediction · DAC 2025 |
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures
machine learning accelerator |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | DeepRWCap: Neural-Guided Random-Walk Capacitance Solver for IC Design · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
positional encoding · 1.0depthwise separable convolution · 1.03d convolutional network · 1.0link prediction · 0.9graph transformer · 0.9graph neural network · 0.9few-shot learning · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DeepRWCap: Neural-Guided Random-Walk Capacitance Solver for IC DesignabstractMonte Carlo random walk methods are widely used in capacitance extraction for their mesh-free formulation and inherent parallelism. However, modern semiconductor technologies with densely packed structures present significant challenges in unbiasedly sampling transition domains in walk steps with multiple high-contrast dielectric materials. We present DeepRWCap, a machine learning-guided random walk solver that predicts the transition quantities required to guide each step of the walk. These include Poisson kernels, gradient kernels, signs and magnitudes of weight. DeepRWCap employs a two-stage neural architecture that decomposes structured outputs into face-wise distributions and spatial kernels on cube faces. It uses 3D convolutional networks to capture volumetric dielectric interactions and 2D depthwise separable convolutions to model localized kernel behavior. The design incorporates grid-based positional encodings and structural design choices informed by cube symmetries to reduce learning redundancy and improve generalization. Trained on 100,000 procedurally generated dielectric configurations, DeepRWCap achieves a mean relative error of 1.24±0.53% when benchmarked against the commercial Raphael solver on the self-capacitance estimation of 10 industrial designs spanning 12 to 55 nm nodes. Compared to the state-of-the-art stochastic difference method Microwalk, DeepRWCap achieves an average 23% speedup. On complex designs with runtimes over 10s, it reaches an average 49% acceleration. Hector Rodriguez Rodriguez, Jiechen Huang, Wenjian Yu |
AAAI | 1 |
| 2025 | Few-shot Learning on AMS Circuits and Its Application to Parasitic Capacitance PredictionabstractGraph representation learning is a powerful method to extract features from graph-structured data, such as analog/mixed-signal (AMS) circuits. However, training deep learning models for AMS designs is severely limited by the scarcity of integrated circuit design data. In this work, we present CircuitGPS, a few-shot learning method for parasitic effect prediction in AMS circuits. The circuit netlist is represented as a heterogeneous graph, with the coupling capacitance modeled as a link. CircuitGPS is pre-trained on link prediction and fine-tuned on edge regression. The proposed method starts with a small-hop sampling technique that converts a link or a node into a subgraph. Then, the subgraph embeddings are learned with a hybrid graph Transformer. Additionally, CircuitGPS integrates a low-cost positional encoding that summarizes the positional and structural information of the sampled subgraph. CircuitGPS improves the accuracy of coupling existence by at least 20% and reduces the MAE of capacitance estimation by at least 0.067 compared to existing methods. Our method demonstrates strong inherent scalability, enabling direct application to diverse AMS circuit designs through zero-shot learning. Furthermore, the ablation studies provide valuable insights into graph models for representation learning. Shan Shen, Hector Rodriguez Rodriguez, Wenjian Yu |
DAC | 3 |