2026 — present
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
PhD student · Electronic Engineering
Supervisor: Prof. Ni Zhao
Curriculum vitae
Shurong Cao
PhD student in Electronic Engineering · The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Education
2022 — 2026
Nanjing University
B.Eng. · Integrated Circuit and System Design
School of Integrated Circuits · Suzhou Campus
Research interests
Semiconductor devices and fabrication; BEOL-compatible electronics; oxide and p-type semiconductors; low-temperature processing; monolithic 3D and complementary integration.
Publications
FALCO-WAFER: Feature-Aware Lightweight Contextual Detector for Wafer Defect Detection
Haotian Zhang*, Shurong Cao*, Ningmu Zou
IEEE International Test Conference in Asia (ITC-Asia), pp. 43–47, 2025.
Texture-AD: An Anomaly Detection Dataset and Benchmark for Real Algorithm Development
Tianwu Lei*, Bohan Wang*, Silin Chen, Shurong Cao, Ningmu Zou
arXiv:2409.06367, 2024 · CVM 2026 conference program.
Selected experience
- 3D interconnects & advanced packaging
From nano-TSV parameter optimization to automated thermo-mechanical modeling of 2.5D chip stacks.
- Vacuum MOSFET sensing
A semiconductor sensing concept explored through device architecture, multiphysics modeling, and simulation verification.
- FPGA-based robotic system
An integrated PYNQ-Z2, Raspberry Pi 5, and STM32 system combining perception, mapping, and motion control.
- BenchLineage
Local-first provenance, calibration records, uncertainty budgets, and evidence bundles for engineering experiments.
Selected recognition
- Guo Xie Birong Scholarship
Nanjing University · RMB 10,000
- National Second Prize
FPGA Innovation Design · 2024