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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[February 18, 2026] Poster accepted to the NSF Workshop on Agents for Chip Design Automation 2026 (Agent4Chip): "Stepping Stones Towards Agentic HLS Design". Excited to attend in person on March 13, 2026!
[February 13, 2026] Attended the annual CRNCH Summit hosted at Georgia Tech. Great lineup of invited speakers from academia, industry and national labs talking about a wide range of computer architecture topics, particularly as it relates to new demand from compute and AI workloads.
[January 19, 2026] Our paper FIFOAdvisor was presented at the ASP-DAC 2026 conference in Hong Kong.

[January 15, 2026] FIFOAdvisor: A DSE Framework for Automated FIFO Sizing of High-Level Synthesis Designs - ASP-DAC 2026
[June 26, 2025] HLS-Eval: A Benchmark and Framework for Evaluating LLMs on High-Level Synthesis Design Tasks - ICLAD 2025
[March 11, 2024] HLSFactory: A Framework Empowering High-Level Synthesis Datasets for Machine Learning and Beyond - MLCAD 2024

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