Cunxi Yu

Affiliate Assistant Professor
    Email:     cunxiyu umd[.dot.]edu
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  Biography
Dr. Cunxi Yu is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests focus on novel algorithms, systems, and hardware designs for computing and security. Before joining University of Maryland, Cunxi was Assistant Professor at University of Utah, and held PostDoc positions at Cornell University and EPFL. He received Ph.D. degree from UMass Amherst in 2017. His work received the Best Paper Award at ASPLOS (2025), DAC (2023), Best Paper Nominations at DAC, ASP-DAC, and TCAD, and 1st place at DAC HackDAC (2017), NSF CAREER Award (2021), and American Physical Society DLS poster award (2022).
Honors and Awards
| Year | Type | Org. | Name | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Award | Best Paper Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | |
| 2025 | Award | Best Paper Best Paper Finalists, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) | |
| 2023 | Award | Best Paper ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) | |
| 2021 | Award | NSF | NSF CAREER |