Shang Liu

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 226 citations indexed

About

Shang Liu is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Shang Liu has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 226 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Shang Liu's work include Embedded Systems Design Techniques (4 papers), VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing (3 papers) and Low-power high-performance VLSI design (3 papers). Shang Liu is often cited by papers focused on Embedded Systems Design Techniques (4 papers), VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing (3 papers) and Low-power high-performance VLSI design (3 papers). Shang Liu collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Shang Liu's co-authors include Qijun Zhang, Hongce Zhang, Zhiyao Xie, Meng Lin, Xihan Chen, Ying Qiao, Matthew C. Beard, Shaokuan Gong, Letian Zhang and Kui Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Energy & Environmental Science, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science and ACS Energy Letters.

In The Last Decade

Shang Liu

15 papers receiving 221 citations

Hit Papers

RTLLM: An Open-Source Benchmark for Design RTL Generation... 2024 2026 2025 2024 2024 20 40 60
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. RTLLM: An Open-Source Benchmark for Design RTL Generation with Large Language Model
    2024 72 citations Shang Liu, Qijun Zhang et al. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) profile →
  2. RTLCoder: Outperforming GPT-3.5 in Design RTL Generation with Our Open-Source Dataset and Lightweight Solution
    2024 42 citations Shang Liu, Qijun Zhang et al. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shang Liu Hong Kong 6 74 70 63 34 20 17 226
Martin Rapp Germany 12 227 3.1× 186 2.7× 61 1.0× 5 0.1× 14 0.7× 30 351
В. В. Кравец United States 12 228 3.1× 222 3.2× 37 0.6× 40 1.2× 10 0.5× 43 359
Cuong Tran United States 10 199 2.7× 13 0.2× 51 0.8× 25 0.7× 5 0.3× 21 287
Read Sprabery United States 9 63 0.9× 75 1.1× 182 2.9× 73 2.1× 12 0.6× 12 303
Ecenur Ustun United States 9 195 2.6× 234 3.3× 44 0.7× 13 0.4× 21 1.1× 10 330
Guoqiang Shu United States 8 27 0.4× 11 0.2× 96 1.5× 62 1.8× 16 0.8× 24 222
Abdullah Muzahid United States 9 76 1.0× 177 2.5× 69 1.1× 46 1.4× 6 0.3× 28 267
N.S. Bowen United States 8 93 1.3× 138 2.0× 26 0.4× 29 0.9× 3 0.1× 21 267
Stéphane Rubini France 8 51 0.7× 98 1.4× 23 0.4× 11 0.3× 4 0.2× 28 197
Erik van der Kouwe Netherlands 10 63 0.9× 69 1.0× 181 2.9× 60 1.8× 25 1.3× 30 265

Countries citing papers authored by Shang Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shang Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Shang Liu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Shang Liu. The network helps show where Shang Liu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shang Liu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shang Liu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shang Liu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Shang Liu. Shang Liu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Liu, Shang, et al.. (2025). A Self-Supervised, Pre-Trained, and Cross-Stage-Aligned Circuit Encoder Provides a Foundation for Various Design Tasks. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 505–512. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Jing, et al.. (2025). GenEDA: Towards Generative Netlist Functional Reasoning via Cross-Modal Circuit Encoder-Decoder Alignment. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1–9.
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Liu, Jingjing, Qiushi Hu, Shang Liu, et al.. (2025). π-Stacked organic heterojunction enabled efficient hydrogen peroxide photoproduction. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 686. 184–191. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Shang, et al.. (2025). Towards Big Data in AI for EDA Research: Generation of New Pseudo Circuits at RTL Stage. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 527–533. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Z., et al.. (2025). AssertLLM: Generating Hardware Verification Assertions from Design Specifications via Multi-LLMs. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 614–621. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Shang, et al.. (2024). OpenLLM-RTL: Open Dataset and Benchmark for LLM-Aided Design RTL Generation. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1–9. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Shang, et al.. (2024). RTLCoder: Fully Open-Source and Efficient LLM-Assisted RTL Code Generation Technique. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 44(4). 1448–1461. 15 indexed citations
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Hu, Qiushi, Shang Liu, Jingjing Liu, et al.. (2024). Ultrafast Hole Preservation with Undercoordinated Tungsten for Efficient Solar-to-Chemical Conversion. ACS Energy Letters. 9(7). 3252–3260. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Shang, et al.. (2024). Transferable Presynthesis PPA Estimation for RTL Designs With Data Augmentation Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 44(1). 200–213. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Shang, et al.. (2024). Annotating Slack Directly on Your Verilog: Fine-Grained RTL Timing Evaluation for Early Optimization. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1–6. 5 indexed citations
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Gong, Shaokuan, Ying Qiao, Yuling Huang, et al.. (2024). A hot carrier perovskite solar cell with efficiency exceeding 27% enabled by ultrafast hot hole transfer with phthalocyanine derivatives. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(14). 5080–5090. 40 indexed citations
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Liu, Shang, et al.. (2024). RTLCoder: Outperforming GPT-3.5 in Design RTL Generation with Our Open-Source Dataset and Lightweight Solution. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1–5. 42 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Shang, et al.. (2024). AssertLLM: Generating Hardware Verification Assertions from Design Specifications via Multi-LLMs. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1–1. 24 indexed citations
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Liu, Shang, et al.. (2024). RTLLM: An Open-Source Benchmark for Design RTL Generation with Large Language Model. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 722–727. 72 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Shang, et al.. (2023). MasterRTL: A Pre-Synthesis PPA Estimation Framework for Any RTL Design. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1–9. 11 indexed citations

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