Liang Mao
ASIC Digital Design Engineer at Synopsys Inc
United States
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Top SchoolLiang Mao is an ASIC digital design engineer with 9 years of experience, currently working at Synopsys on digital integrated circuit design. He combines a strong academic foundation—M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia and a B.S. in Physics with opto-electronics—from Nankai University—with hands-on RTL work across industry leaders like ByteDance and Bosch. Liang has practical expertise in hardware accelerator RTL, optimizing for area and multi-mode operation, and has interned on automotive electronics, showing breadth across domains. He also contributes to open-source software: notable work on Alibaba Dragonwell8 JDK involved porting and improving G1ElasticHeap to support runtime heap resizing and cross-platform build fixes. This mix of silicon-focused design and systems-level contributions highlights an engineer comfortable bridging low-level RTL and higher-level software tooling. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to translate complex hardware constraints into efficient, production-ready designs.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics (Opto-Electronics Information Science and Engineering), Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics (Opto-Electronics Information Science and Engineering) at Nankai UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New YorkSummer Program, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Summer Program, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (13)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dragonwell-project/dragonwell8
Apr 2019 - Jun 2021
Alibaba Dragonwell8 JDK
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 34 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Liang primarily contributed to the Alibaba Dragonwell8 JDK project by porting and fixing G1ElasticHeap related code, specifically focused on supporting heap shrink/expansion at runtime. They addressed build issues on Windows and Mac, fixed test case failures, and enhanced G1ElasticHeap to allow softmx adjustments via jcmd full GC. These changes involved modifications to the `elasticHeap.cpp`, `elasticHeap.hpp`, and `heapRegionManager.cpp` files, as well as relevant test cases.
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mmyxym/dragonwell11
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
Alibaba Dragonwell11 JDK
Contributions:44 pushes, 17 branches, 2 comments in 11 months
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