MLCAD Symposium 2025
7th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning for CAD
September 8 to 10, 2025
Chaminade Resort, Santa Cruz, California
Important Dates
Research Papers & Industry Presentations
Research paper abstract due: May 16, 2025 (AOE)
Full manuscript due: May 23, 2025 (AOE)
Notification: July 7, 2025
Camera-Ready Version: July 25, 2025
Industry presentation abstract due: May 23, 2025
Notification: June 27, 2025
Slides submission: August 1, 2025
MLCAD Contest [website]
Registration deadline: April 20, 2025
Submissions: May 30, July 15, and August 10, 2025
Results Announcement: September 2025
TODAES Special Issue (MLCAD 2024)
Submissions deadline: March 5, 2025
First-round review decisions: May 5, 2025
Deadline for revision submissions: June 5, 2025
Notification of final decisions: July 5, 2025
Tentative publication: Summer 2025
Location
@ Chaminade Resort, Santa Cruz, California (Photos credit: logansworldphotography @ Instagram)
Announcements
About
The symposium focuses on Machine Learning (ML) applications to all aspects of CAD for electronic circuits, chips and systems. It is sponsored by IEEE CEDA (Council on Electronic Design Automation) and ACM SIGDA (Special Interest Group on Design Automation). MLCAD 2025 will start with the welcome reception in the evening of September 7, 2025. Papers and presentations should cover one or more aspects of applying machine learning and AI to enhance CAD of chip designs. Such aspects include, but are not limited to, algorithms, software, models, example applications, benchmarking, and innovative solutions such as Large Language Models for CAD.
Committees
| General Chairs | Jiang Hu, Texas A&M University |
| Yibo Lin, Peking University | |
| Technical Program Chairs | Youngsoo Shin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) |
| Cunxi Yu, University of Maryland | |
| Contest Chair | Vidya A. Chhabria, Arizona State University |
| Industrial and Special Session Chair | Vishal Khandelwal, Synopsys |
| Publication Chair | Matthew Guthaus, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Strategic Initiatives Chair | Igor Markov, Synopsys |
| Publicity Chair | Cong “Callie” Hao, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Steering Committee | Marilyn Wolf, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Paul Franzon, North Carolina State University | |
| Ulf Schlichtmann, Technical University of Munich | |
| Andrew B. Kahng, University of California San Diego | |
| Hussam Amrouch, Technical University of Munich |