Hi~, I’m a third-year Ph.D. student at the School of Integrated Circuits in the Nanjing University (NJU), supervised by the Associate Prof Ningmu Zou. Previously I received my B.S. degree in 2020 and my M.S. degree in 2023, at the School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT).

My research interests is include:

AI for Chips (Layout Hotspot Detection, Mask Optimization, Wafer Defect Detection)
AI for Remote Sensing (Small Object Detection/Segmentation in Remote Sening Image)
Deep Learning for Computer Vision.

I’m current working on AI for Chips. I have published 20+ papers with .

📖 Education

Nanjing University (NJU)Ph.D. · 2024.09 - Now

School of Integrated Circuits, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China · Supervisor: Ningmu Zou.
China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT)M.S. · 2020.09 - 2023.06B.E. · 2016.09 - 2020.06

School of Computer Science and Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China · Supervisors: Yong Zhou, Jiaqi Zhao.

💼 Work Experience

AMEDACEngineering Intern · 2026.04.10 - Now

Product Application Department I, Hefei, Anhui, China.
XPeng Inc.Engineer · 2023.07 - 2024.07

Intelligent Computing Center, Shanghai, China.
Baidu ResearchResearch Intern · 2022.06 - 2023.01

Big Data Lab, Beijing, China · Mentor: Qingzhong Wang.

💬 Talks

SPIE/COS Photonics Asia

OptoChat: a large language model with retrieval augmented generation for optics.

Beijing, China · Oct. 12–14, 2025

📝 Publications

^# Equal contribution.

First Author 6

ASP-DAC 2027

Curvilinear OPC via Diffeomorphic Deformation

Silin Chen, Kangjian Di, Jiale Li, Binwu Zhu; Ningmu Zou.
IEEE TCAD 2026

Geometric-Robust Contrastive Learning Framework with Layout Topology Representation and Self-Calibration Voting for Hotspot Detection

Silin Chen; Kangjian Di; Andy Liu; Guohao Wang; Wenzheng Zhao; Binwu Zhu; Li Du; Ningmu Zou.
ACM TODAES 2026

You Only Need Non-hotspot: An Unsupervised Training-Free Method for Layout Hotspot Detection

Silin Chen; Kangjian Di; Yibo Huang; Binwu Zhu; Ningmu Zou.
IEEE/ACM DAC 2025

Delving into Topology Representation for Layout Pattern: A Novel Contrastive Learning Framework for Hotspot Detection

Silin Chen; Kangjian Di; Guohao Wang; Wenzheng Zhao; Li Du; Ningmu Zou.
IEEE SPL 2025
Code

Look Twice and Closer: A Coarse-to-Fine Segmentation Network for Small Objects in Remote Sensing Images

Silin Chen^#; Qingzhong Wang^#; Kangjian Di; Haoyi Xiong; Ningmu Zou.
ESWA 2023

Info-FPN: An informative feature pyramid network for object detection in remote sensing images

Silin Chen; Jiaqi Zhao; Yong Zhou; Hanzheng Wang; Rui Yao; Lixu Zhang; Yong Xue.

Co-first Author 11

ASP-DAC 2027

ResistONet: Cascade Operator Network for Photoresist Simulation

Yiqing Wang^#; Silin Chen^#; Yuqian Zang; Jiale Li; Xiaodong Meng; Ningmu Zou.
ASP-DAC 2027

Chain of SRAF Generation: A Large Reasoning Model for Sub-resolution Assist Features

Jiale Li^#; Silin Chen^#; Yufeng Zhang; Zhili Xu; Yiqing Wang; Wenbo Xu; Ziyang Yu; Bei Yu; Ningmu Zou.
ITC-Asia 2026

Bridging Geometric Learning and Pattern Decoupling for Mixed-Type Wafer Defect Recognition via Dual-Collaborative Graph Learning

Yali Zhang^#; Silin Chen^#; Haotian Zhang; Mingwei Feng; Zhijie Sasha Dong; Jun Lin; Ningmu Zou.
Optica 2026

Distillation-guided optical neural networks with reinforcement learning-assisted calibration

Kangjian Di^#; Fuhao Yu^#; Silin Chen^#; Jiashu Li; Andy Liu; Sen Shao; Zhiyuan Shi; Xuping Zhang; Yixin Zhang; Wei Jiang; Ningmu Zou.
JPhys-Phtonics 2026

OptoChat: a large language model with retrieval augmented generation for optics

Xiaoqing Bao^#; Hairuo Wang^#; Silin Chen^#; Yali Zhang^#; Wenjun Chen; Kangjian Di; Mengcheng Lv; Minghui Zhao; Guohao Wang; Wenzheng Zhao; Ningmu Zou.
ISEDA 2026

MODiff: Layout-Guided Mask Optimization via Diffusion Model

Jiale Li^#; Silin Chen^#; Yiqing Wang; Kangjian Di; Li Du; Ningmu Zou.
DATE 2026

Node2Node: Node Adaptation with Transformer for Cross-Node Hotspot Detection

Wenbo Xu^#; Silin Chen^#; Yibo Huang; Xinyun Zhang; Zixiao Wang; Bei Yu; Ningmu Zou.
ASP DAC 2026

Understand and Detect: Lithographic Hotspot Detection by the Interpretable Graph Attention Network

Andy Liu^#; Silin Chen^#; Guohao Wang; Wenzheng Zhao; Yuxiang Fu; Ningmu Zou.
IWAPS 2025

SVD-based Layout Representation for Lithographic Hotspot Detection

Yibo Huang^#; Silin Chen^#; Hao Shu; Jiahao Wang; Wenbo Xu; Ningmu Zou.
GLSVLSI 2025

When Transformer Meets Layout Hotspot: An End-to-End Transformer-based Detector with Prior Lithography

Wenbo Xu^#; Silin Chen^#; Jiale Li; Kangjian Di; Yuxiang Fu; Ningmu Zou.
ICIC Oral 2025
Code

Adapted-MoE: Mixture of Experts with Test-Time Adaption for Anomaly Detection

Tianwu Lei^#; Silin Chen^#; Bohan Wang; Zhengkai Jiang; Ningmu Zou.

Student First Author 2

IEEE TGRS 2022

CLT-Det: Correlation learning based on transformer for detecting dense objects in remote sensing images

Yong Zhou; Silin Chen; Jiaqi Zhao; Rui Yao; Yong Xue; Abdulmotaleb El Saddik.
电子学报 2021

基于弱语义注意力的遥感图像可解释目标检测

周勇; 陈思霖; 赵佳琦; 张迪; 王瀚正.

Other Co-authored Papers 16

ASP-DAC 2027

EtchMO: A Differentiable Etch Model for Mask Optimization

Jiale Li; Silin Chen; Yiqing Wang; Yali Zhang; Yang Xia; Ningmu Zou.
ICCAD 2026

RWAD: Reliability-Guided Text-Free Zero-Shot Wafer Anomaly Detection

Haowen Lan; Tianrui Zhang; Ziheng Zang; Silin Chen; Kangjian Di; Andy Liu; Guohao Wang; Wenzheng Zhao; Ningmu Zou.
Nature Communications 2026

Wavelength-encoded neuromorphic inference enabled by microcavity MoS2 photodetector arrays

Xiang Chen; Kangjian Di; Fuhao Yu; Jiashu Li; Lixiang Sun; Shengdi Chen; Silin Chen; Andy Liu; Xiang Peng; Shitong Zhu; Taotao Li; Wei Jiang; Xuping Zhang; Yi Shi; Xinran Wang; Li Gao; Zehua Hu; Ningmu Zou.
IEEE/Optica JLT 2026

All-Optical Wearable Gesture Sensing with a Learnable Photonic Linear Filter Bank for Near-Sensor Classification

Kangjian Di; Jiashu Li; Silin Chen; Shengdi Chen; Fuhao Yu; Nasheeta Mazhar; Wei Jiang; Xuping Zhang; Yixin Zhang; Ningmu Zou.
Nanoscale 2026

CrossMicroNet: A Cross-Scale Small-Sample Image Restoration Framework for Two-dimensional Material Microscopy Imaging

Mingwei Feng; Xilu Zou; Lei Liu; Shengqiang Wu; Haotian Zhang; Silin Chen; Zikang Zeng; Yiru Wang; Xiaotian Zhang; Xuping Zhang; Taotao Li; Ningmu Zou.
IEEE Nano 2026

Dynamic Processes in Chemical-Vapor Deposition of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides Revealed by AI-Driven Operando Metrology

Mingwei Feng; Xilu Zou; Haotian Zhang; Caiqi Zou; Silin Chen; Wei Xu; Xiaotian Zhang; Taotao Li; Ningmu Zou.
ISEDA 2026

Boundary-Only Layout Encoding for Lithography Hotspot Detection

Yufeng Zhang; Zhili Xu; Yuqian Zang; Jiale Li; Silin Chen; Zhaoyang Wang; Chihwei Chiang; Ningmu Zou.
ISEDA 2026

TC-FNO: Fourier Neural Operator with Learnable Time-Step Embedding for 3D Lithography Exposure Simulation

Yuqian Zang; Yiqing Wang; Silin Chen; Jiale Li; Zhili Xu; Yufeng Zhang; Hao Zhang; Chia-Yen Li; Ningmu Zou.
CVM 2026
Dataset

Texture-AD: An Anomaly Detection Dataset and Benchmark for Real Algorithm Development

Bohan Wang; Tianwu Lei; Silin Chen; Shurong Cao; Ningmu Zou.
IEEE JEDS 2025
Code

Improved Algorithm of Dueling DQN for BSIM Parameter Extraction Task

Wenjun Chen; Yali Zhang; Zikang Zeng; Silin Chen; Kangjian Di; Guohao Wang; Chia-Yen Li; Ningmu Zou.
Advanced Photonics 2025

Time-wavelength multiplexed photonic neural network accelerator for distributed acoustic sensing systems

Fuhao Yu; Kangjian Di; Wenjun Chen; Sen Yan; Yuanyuan Yao; Silin Chen; Xuping Zhang; Yixin Zhang; Ningmu Zou; Wei Jiang.
IEEE TCSVT 2022

Spatial-temporal based multihead self-attention for remote sensing image change detection

Yong Zhou; Fengkai Wang; Jiaqi Zhao; Rui Yao; Silin Chen; Heping Ma.
IEEE TMM 2022

Spatial-channel enhanced transformer for visible-infrared person re-identification

Jiaqi Zhao; Hanzheng Wang; Yong Zhou; Rui Yao; Silin Chen; Abdulmotaleb El Saddik.
Neurocomputing 2021

AMC-Net: Attentive modality-consistent network for visible-infrared person re-identification

Hanzheng Wang; Jiaqi Zhao; Yong Zhou; Rui Yao; Ying Chen; Silin Chen.
模式识别与人工智能 2021

基于深度强化学习的遥感图像可解释目标检测方法

赵佳琦; 张迪; 周勇; 陈思霖; 唐嘉澜; 姚睿.
自动化学报 2020

基于可解释注意力部件模型的行人重识别方法

周勇; 王瀚正; 赵佳琦; 陈莹; 姚睿; 陈思霖.

🙏 Preprints

Preprint

FedDyMem: Efficient Federated Learning with Dynamic Memory and Memory-Reduce for Unsupervised Image Anomaly Detection

Silin Chen; Andy Liu; Kangjian Di; Yichu Xu; Han-Jia Ye; Wenhan Luo; Ningmu Zou.

🏅 Honors & Awards

Doctoral Student Program of the Young S&T Talents Cultivation Project(CAST)2026
School Outstanding Student (NJU)2026
National Scholarship for Ph.D. Student (NJU)2025
China International College Students’ Innovation Competition, Bronze Award2025
The First Prize Scholarship of CUMT2020–2023

🤝 Services

Journal reviewer
- Knowledge-Based Systems
- Expert Systems with Applications
- The Journal of Supercomputing
- Signal, Image and Video Processing
- Pattern Recognition
- IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing
Conference reviewer
- ICME
- ICASSP

📧 Contact

silin.chen[at]smail[dot]nju[dot]edu[dot]cn
silin.chen[at]cumt[dot]edu[dot]cn
silin.sherwin.chen[at]outlook[dot]com
silin.sherwin.chen[at]gmail[dot]com

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