Mingyu Woo
Senior Engineer at University of California San Diego
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMingyu Woo is a Senior Engineer at Qualcomm and a PhD candidate at UC San Diego specializing in VLSI/CAD, with eight years of experience building production-grade EDA tools and research prototypes. He was a principal developer on the high-profile OpenROAD project (DARPA-POSH), leading key floorplanning and placement modules (T8/T9) and expanding its testing and CI infrastructure. His background blends deep academic rigor—from a PhD at UCSD and top grades in EE/CS—with practical industry impact via internships at Cadence and Qualcomm. Based in San Diego, he focuses on scalable backend systems for physical design automation and is notable for turning cutting-edge research into maintainable open-source engineering.
8 years of coding experience
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering / Computer Science Engineering, 3.94/4.3, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering / Computer Science Engineering, 3.94/4.3 at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (8)
tcl10
testing10
eda9
rt9
verilog9
c-language7
cprogramming-language7
cpp7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenROAD
Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
OpenROAD's unified application implementing an RTL-to-GDS Flow. Documentation at https://openroad.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 174 commits, 48 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Mingyu appears to be updating the test infrastructure for the "openroad" repository. Their commits primarily involve modifications to the `jenkins/test.sh` file, adding and updating test cases to include new functionalities. These changes reflect an effort to expand the testing coverage of the project, particularly around the `replace` and `opendp` modules and the integration of `TritonMacroPlace`. The user's work also included merging a branch to update pointers and test cases for different functionalities.
opendb-databasertlcppgdstcl
mgwoo/mgwoo.github.io
Oct 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:41 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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