Cunxi Yu

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 ASP-DAC and TCAD, and 1st place at DAC HackDAC (2017), NSF CAREER Award (2021), and American Physical Society DLS poster award (2022).