This is Hejia Zhang, a 2nd-year PhD student in CSE at UCSD, California. I’m current doing MLsys related research advised by Prof. Jishen Zhao.
My current research interests include:
- LLM for better Ditigal Verification and Hardware Design;
- Improving performance and efficiency of LLM coding agents.
I was a hardware developer at Akuna Capital, developing low-latency trading system based on SystemVerilog & C++. Before that, I got my bachelor’s degree from Department of EE, Tsinghua University.
Selected Publications
LLM4Cov: Execution-Aware Agentic Learning for High-coverage Testbench Generation
Hejia Zhang, Zhongming Yu, Chia-Tung Ho, Haoxing Ren, Brucek Khailany, Jishen Zhao
arXiv preprint, 2026
[code] [website] [huggingface]
MAGE: A Multi-Agent Engine for Automated RTL Code Generation
Yujie Zhao*, Hejia Zhang*, Hanxian Huang, Zhongming Yu, Jishen Zhao
In the Proceedings of the 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025
* stands for equal contribution
[code] [website] [poster]
OrcaLoca: An LLM Agent Framework for Software Issue Localization
Zhongming Yu*, Hejia Zhang*, Yujie Zhao, Hanxian Huang, Matrix Yao, Ke Ding, Jishen Zhao
In the Proceedings of the 42th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
* stands for equal contribution
[code] [website]