Dallas

The 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design

(ICCD 2025)

November 10-12, 2025

Dallas, USA

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Dr. Haoxing (Mark) Ren

Director of Design Automation Research, NVIDIA

Title: AI for Chip Design: The Inflection Point Is Now

Haoxing Ren - NVIDIA

Bio

Haoxing (Mark) Ren is the Director of Design Automation Research at NVIDIA. His research interest is in AI for chip design and GPU-acceleration EDA. Dr. Ren worked at IBM EDA Lab from 2000 to 2006 where he was the key developer of placement tools. He joined IBM Research DA group in 2007 where he led the development of logic ECO synthesis tools and high-level synthesis tools. Prior to joining NVIDIA Research in May 2016, he was a technical executive at PowerCore, a startup developing server-class CPUs. Dr. Ren Mark earned his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.