Wei-kai Liu
DFT Engineer at Apple
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWei-kai Liu is a DFT engineer and PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University with nine years of experience spanning industry and academia, including multiple roles at Apple and research internships at Synopsys. His work bridges hardware security, EDA/CAD tool development, and algorithmic approaches to testing and routing—highlighted by a toolkit for static RTL security detection and ML-driven FPGA routing predictions. He has delivered practical automation for ATPG flows, power-aware DRC/ATPG research, and assertion-based MBIST checkers, while exploring hardware-supported patching for resilient SoC architectures. Comfortable moving between research and product engineering, Wei-kai combines publication-grade investigation with hands-on tool building and a background that includes undergraduate EDA research at National Taiwan University.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University
chinese/mandarin, English, JapaneseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
baidu/speech-samples
Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 6 months
weilikai/localports
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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