Biography

Shan Cao, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Information Engineering (SCIE), Shanghai University. She received her B.E. (2009) and Ph.D. (2015) degrees in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and completed her postdoctoral research at the School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology in 2017. She then joined Shanghai University as a faculty member in the Department of Communication Engineering, where she is currently an Associate Professor.

She was selected for the Shanghai Overseas High-Level Talent Program (2017) and received the Shanghai University Outstanding Young Faculty Award (2020). She serves as a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society COMCAS Technical Committee, the IEEE ISCAS Review Committee, and has chaired special sessions for ICTC 2022 and IEEE SiPS 2019.

Her recent research projects span the design of low-power communication chips for 6G, AI-driven channel coding and signal processing architectures, and heterogeneous computing for wireless systems.

Education

Postdoctoral Research, School of Information and Electronics, 2015–2017

Beijing Institute of Technology

Ph.D. in Electronic Science and Technology, 2009–2015

Tsinghua University

B.E. in Electronic Science and Technology, 2005–2009

Tsinghua University

Interests

  • Digital and SoC Design
  • AI Acceleration
  • Wireless Signal Processing
  • Model Compression

Publications

Conference Papers

2025

[ACM LCTES] "Zoozve: A Strip-Mining-Free RISC-V Vector Extension with Arbitrary Register Grouping Compilation Support (WIP)" , in Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, 2025 DOI
[IEEE ISCAS] "Packetized Pipelined Pillar Feature Net Accelerator for LiDAR 3D Object Detection" , in 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2025 DOI
[IEEE ISCAS] "MPQA: Mixed-Precision Quantization Accelerator for CNN Inference" , in 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2025 DOI
[ASP-DAC] "A Hierarchical Dataflow-Driven Heterogeneous Architecture for Wireless Baseband Processing" , in Proceedings of the 30th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2025 DOI

2024

[IEEE ISCAS] "Hybrid-Grained Pruning and Hardware Acceleration for Convolutional Neural Networks" , in 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2024 DOI
[IEEE ISCAS] "Dynamically Configurable FIR Filters Based on Serial MACs and Systolic Arrays" , in 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2024 DOI

2023

[ACM TURC 2023] "A Domain Specific Computing Architecture for Open 6G Baseband Signal Processing" , in Proceedings of the ACM Turing Award Celebration Conference - China 2023, 2023 DOI
[FCN 2023] "SPMD-Based Mixed-Radix FFT and Channel Estimation for Energy-Efficient O-RAN" , in 2023 International Conference on Future Communications and Networks (FCN), 2023 DOI
[IEEE ASICON 2023] "Loop-Tiling Based Compiling Optimization for Cnn Accelerators" , in 2023 IEEE 15th International Conference on ASIC (ASICON), 2023 DOI
[IEEE AICAS 2023] "Live Demonstration: An Integrated Computing and Communication Platform for Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative Autonomous Driving" , in 2023 IEEE 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2023 DOI
[FCN 2023] "Critical-Set-Aided Multi-Bit Successive Cancellation List Decoders for Polar Codes" , in 2023 International Conference on Future Communications and Networks (FCN), 2023 DOI
[IEEE SPAWC 2023] "An FPGA-based Low Latency Sensing and Communication Platform for Collaborative Autonomous Driving" , in 2023 IEEE 24th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2023 DOI

2022

[ACCV] "Filter Pruning via Automatic Pruning Rate Search" , in Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2022 DOI
[IEEE AICAS 2022] "Configurable CNN Accelerator in Speech Processing Based on Vector Convolution" , in 2022 IEEE 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2022 DOI

2021

[IEEE ISCAS] "A Semi-Folded Decoding Architecture for Flexible Codeword Length Configuration of Polar Codes" , in 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2021 DOI
[IEEE AICAS 2021] "A Real-Time Face Recognition System by Efficient Hardware-Software Co-Design on FPGA SoCs" , in 2021 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2021 DOI
[Pattern Recognit.] "A Cross Domain Multi-Modal Dataset for Robust Face Anti-Spoofing" , in 2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2021 DOI

2020

[IEEE INFOCOM] "Revealing Much While Saying Less: Predictive Wireless for Status Update" , in IEEE INFOCOM 2020-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2020 DOI
[IEEE ISCAS] "Hardware-Software Co-Design for Face Recognition on Fpga Socs" , in 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2020 DOI

2019

[IEEE ICC] "Robust Sub-Meter Level Indoor Localization-a Logistic Regression Approach" , in ICC 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2019 DOI
[IWCMC 2019] "Passive TCP Identification for Wired and Wireless Networks: A Long-Short Term Memory Approach" , in 2019 15th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2019 DOI
[IEEE VTC 2019 (Fall)] "Fingerprint-Based Localization Using Commercial LTE Signals: A Field-Trial Study" , in 2019 IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Fall), 2019 DOI
[IEEE VTC 2019 (Spring)] "Energy-Efficient Subchannel and Power Allocation for HetNets Based on Convolutional Neural Network" , in 2019 IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Spring), 2019 DOI
[IEEE WCNC] "Efficient MIMO Detection with Imperfect Channel Knowledge-a Deep Learning Approach" , in 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2019 DOI
[IEEE ICC] "Channel Estimation for WiFi Prototype Systems with Super-Resolution Image Recovery" , in ICC 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2019 DOI
[IEEE APCCAS] "A Reconfigurable Decoder for Standard-Compatible LDPC Codes and Polar Codes" , in 2019 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), 2019 DOI
[IEEE GLOBECOM Workshops 2019] "A Real-Time Network Traffic Identifier for Open 5G/B5G Networks via Prototype Analysis" , in 2019 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2019 DOI
[IEEE ISCAS] "A Pre-RTL Simulator for Neural Networks" , in 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2019 DOI

2018

[APCC] "Performance Evaluation for LTE-V Based Vehicle-to-Vehicle Platooning Communication" , in 2018 24th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), 2018 DOI
[IEEE GLOBECOM] "Grey Correlation Degree Analysis on Pilot Pattern Optimization for OFDM Channel Estimation" , in 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2018 DOI
[IEEE APCCAS] "A Unified Reconfigurable Datapath for 5G Compatible LDPC Decoding" , in 2018 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), 2018 DOI
[WCSP] "A Unified Deep Learning Based Polar-LDPC Decoder for 5G Communication Systems" , in 2018 10th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), 2018 DOI
[IEEE ISCAS] "A Reconfigurable Pipelined Architecture for Convolutional Neural Network Acceleration" , in 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2018 DOI
[IEEE GlobalSIP] "A Prototype Performance Analysis for V2V Communications Using USRP-based Software Defined Radio Platform" , in 2018 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2018 DOI
[IEEE ISCAS] "A Fast Modular Inversion FPGA Implementation over GF (2 m) Using Modified x 2n Unit" , in 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2018

2017

[IEEE ICSPCC 2017] "Modeling and Analyzing of Underwater Acoustic Channels with Curvilinear Boundaries in Shallow Ocean" , in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing (ICSPCC), 2017 DOI
[IEEE ISCAS] "A Two-Stage Variation-Aware Task Mapping Scheme for Fault-Tolerant Multi-Core Network-on-Chips" , in 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2017 DOI

2016

[IEEE ISCAS] "Temperature-Aware Task Scheduling Heuristics on Network-on-Chips" , in 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2016 DOI
[EEEIS 2016] "An Improved Low Power Viterbi Decoder in System-on-Chips" , in 2nd Annual International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Information Science (EEEIS 2016), 2016 DOI
[IEEE ICICM 2016] "An Accurate Power and Temperature Simulation Framework for Network-on-Chip" , in 2016 International Conference on Integrated Circuits and Microsystems (ICICM), 2016 DOI
[EEEIS 2016] "A Phase Difference Detection Method Implementation Based on DFT in Multi-Band SAR System" , in 2nd Annual International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Information Science (EEEIS 2016), 2016 DOI

2013

2012

[HPCC] "Low Power Schedule Algorithm for Embedded Multimedia Applications Basing on Imagine-L Processor" , in 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication & 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, 2012 DOI

2011

Journal Articles

2025

[IEEE TVLSI] "Unlimited Vector Processing for Wireless Baseband Based on RISC-V Extension" , in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 2025 arXiv DOI
[IEEE TCAD] "A Heterogeneous CNN Compilation Framework for RISC-V CPU and NPU Integration Based on ONNX-MLIR" , in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2025 DOI

2021

[IEEE Sensors J.] "SGTBN: Generating Dense Depth Maps from Single-Line LiDAR" , in IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 DOI

2015

[Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering] "Schedule Refinement for Homogeneous Multi-Core Processors in the Presence of Manufacturing-Caused Heterogeneity" , in Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2015 DOI