Stefan Abi-Karam

I am a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering under my advisor Prof. Cong (Callie) Hao as part of Sharc Lab.

In my Ph.D., I work on AI for hardware design and EDA, with a focus on FPGA and high-level synthesis (HLS) design flows. My research includes creating large-scale HLS/HDL datasets, benchmarking LLMs for hardware code generation, and integrating LLMs into HLS and FPGA design tools.

I am also a full-time research faculty at Georgia Tech through Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) within the Cybersecurity, Information, Communication, Command and Control and Software Systems (CIPHER) lab division.

My roles give me the rare distinction of being both a Ph.D. student and a research faculty member at the same time at Georgia Tech!

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[May 24, 2026] Workshop paper accepted to the Open-Source Computer Architecture Research (OSCAR) Workshop at ISCA 2026: "HLSFactory-Agent: Large-Scale Agentic HLS Dataset Construction from Academic and Open-Source Projects". Excited to present on June 28, 2026 in Raleigh, NC!
[May 22, 2026] Workshop paper accepted to the Architecture 2.0 Workshop & Tutorial at ISCA 2026: "Benchmarking Agentic HLS Design Tasks With HLS-Eval". Excited to present on June 27, 2026 in Raleigh, NC!
[May 13, 2026] Hosted FCCM 2026 here at Georgia Tech in our hometown of Atlanta, GA, and served on the organizing committee. It was a great time seeing everyone in the reconfigurable computing community again!

[June 28, 2026] HLSFactory-Agent: Large-Scale Agentic HLS Dataset Construction from Academic and Open-Source Projects - OSCAR Workshop @ ISCA 2026
[June 27, 2026] Benchmarking Agentic HLS Design Tasks With HLS-Eval - Architecture 2.0 Workshop @ ISCA 2026
[January 15, 2026] FIFOAdvisor: A DSE Framework for Automated FIFO Sizing of High-Level Synthesis Designs - ASP-DAC 2026

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