Weidong Cao

Assistant Professor, ECE, George Washington University

Joined

May 2021

Names

Weidong Cao (Preferred)

WEIDONG CAO

Emails

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****@wustl.edu (Confirmed)

****@gwu.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

ECE, George Washington University (gwu.edu)

2023 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Xuan Zhang

2016 – 2025

Expertise

EDA

2018 – Present

Deep Leanring

2017 – Present

Computer Architecture

2016 – Present

VLSI Desgin

2013 – Present

Publications

GUARD: Gold-Unchanged Anchored Distillation for Defending LLMs Against Membership Inference Attacks
Qiufeng Li, Shu Hong, Tian Lan, Weidong Cao
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
LeCA: In-Sensor Learned Compressive Acquisition for Efficient Machine Vision on the Edge
Adith Boloor, Tianrui Ma, Xiangxing Yang, Weidong Cao, Patrick Williams, Nan Sun, Ayan Chakrabarti, Xuan Zhang
- ISCA '23: Proceedings of the 50th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architect
- Readers: Everyone
RoSE-Opt: Robust and Efficient Analog Circuit Parameter Optimization With Knowledge-Infused Reinforcement Learning
Weidong Cao, Jian Gao, Tianrui Ma, Rui Ma, Mouhacine Benosman, Xuan Zhang
- IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2025
- Readers: Everyone
A Hybrid-Domain Floating-Point Compute-in-Memory Architecture for Efficient Acceleration of High-Precision Deep Neural Networks
Zhiqiang Yi, Yiwen Liang, Weidong Cao
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
AnalogGenie-Lite: Enhancing Scalability and Precision in Circuit Topology Discovery through Lightweight Graph Modeling
Jian Gao, Weidong Cao, Xuan Zhang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
AnalogGenie: A Generative Engine for Automatic Discovery of Analog Circuit Topologies
Jian Gao, Weidong Cao, Junyi Yang, Xuan Zhang
- ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Domain knowledge-based automated analog circuit design with deep reinforcement learning
Weidong Cao, Mouhacine Benosman, Xuan Zhang, Rui Ma
- AAAI-22
- Readers: Everyone
AnalogGenie: A Generative Engine for Automatic Discovery of Analog Circuit Topologies
Jian Gao, Weidong Cao, Junyi Yang, Xuan Zhang
- ICLR 2025 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Efficient Processing of MLPerf Mobile Workloads Using Digital Compute-In-Memory Macros
Xiaoyu Sun, Weidong Cao, Brian Crafton, Kerem Akarvardar, Haruki Mori, Hidehiro Fujiwara, Hiroki Noguchi, Yu-Der Chih, Meng-Fan Chang, Yih Wang, Tsung-Yung Jonathan Chang
- IEEE Trans. Comput. Aided Des. Integr. Circuits Syst. 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Addition is Most You Need: Efficient Floating-Point SRAM Compute-in-Memory by Harnessing Mantissa Addition
Weidong Cao, Jian Gao, Xin Xin, Xuan Zhang
- DAC 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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