Ningmu Zou

Ningmu Zou

Ningmu Zou

Associate Professor of the School of Integrated Circuits

邹宁睦，国家级青年人才，南京大学集成电路学院院长助理、姑苏青年教授、博士生导师，IEEE高级会员。2011年本科毕业于南京大学，后获美国佐治亚理工学院计算机科学硕士学位和康奈尔大学光学工程博士学位。2017年至2023年，先后任美国AMD半导体公司主任工程师、美国德克萨斯州立大学电子工程系客座教授。

近年来，邹宁睦博士面向集成电路先进制造与智能系统设计需求，主要从事人工智能驱动的集成电路制造与检测、计算光刻与可制造性设计优化、片上光电集成与光子智能计算，以及光电器件与半导体材料相关交叉技术研究。围绕人工智能驱动的集成电路系统工艺协同优化（STCO）、缺陷检测、良率提升、器件建模、制造异常诊断、工艺优化及光电集成结构设计等方向开展了系统深入的研究，致力于推动人工智能方法与半导体制造、EDA技术及片上光电集成的深度融合，并组织构建了具有国际先进水平的企业级智能化芯片制造感知大数据系统。研究成果已在Nature、Nature Electronics、Advanced Photonics、TCAD、TODAES以及DAC、DATE等国际期刊和会议上发表论文60余篇，获授权专利40余项。主持和参与国家自然科学基金重点项目、优秀青年科学基金项目（海外）、国家发展改革委XXXX项目、长三角多省市技术攻关专项、南京大学-喆塔科技国产先进制程联合实验室、华为校企合作专项等项目。

曾先后获得2024年世界制造工程协会“杰出青年制造工程师奖”（SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award，当年中国大陆高校唯一获奖者）、2022年“全美十大华人杰出青年”称号，2026年南京大学“青年五四奖章”，以及AMD全球研发大会最佳论文奖、AMD亚洲研发大会最佳创新奖、两次AMD Annual Executive Spotlight Award和多项AMD企业创新奖。此外，还获得2022年中国仪器仪表学会技术发明一等奖、2023年中国安装协会科学技术进步一等奖、2024年中国光电工程学会“金燧奖”金奖等荣誉。现兼任中国激光杂志社第四届青年编辑委员会委员、Advanced Photonics青年编委，以及Photonics Asia、IEEE VLSI、ISEDA等多个国际会议学术委员会委员。

Ningmu Zou is an Associate Professor, Assistant to the Dean of the School of Integrated Circuits at Nanjing University, IEEE Senior Member. He received his B.S. degree from Nanjing University in 2011, followed by an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. degree in Optical Engineering from Cornell University. From 2017 to 2023, he worked at AMD as a Principal/Senior Engineering Leader and served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Texas State University.

Dr. Zou's research focuses on AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing, intelligent chip design, computational lithography, design-technology co-optimization (DTCO), photonic integration, and optical computing systems. His work aims to integrate artificial intelligence with advanced semiconductor manufacturing, electronic design automation (EDA), and on-chip photonic technologies. He has conducted systematic research on AI-enabled process optimization, defect inspection, yield improvement, device modeling, manufacturing anomaly diagnosis, and photonic device/system co-design. He also led the development of an enterprise-level intelligent semiconductor manufacturing sensing and big-data analytics platform. Dr. Zou has published more than 60 papers in leading international journals and conferences, including Nature, Nature Electronics, Advanced Photonics, IEEE TCAD, TODAES, DAC, and DATE. He holds over 40 granted patents.

Dr. Zou has received many awards, including the 2024 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (the only recipient from mainland Chinese universities that year), the 2022 Top 10 Outstanding Chinese American Youth Award, the 2026 Nanjing University Youth May Fourth Medal, AMD Global R&D Conference Best Paper Award, AMD Asia R&D Conference Best Innovation Award, two AMD Annual Executive Spotlight Awards, and multiple AMD innovation awards. He also received the First Prize of Technical Invention Award from the Chinese Instrument and Control Society (2022), the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award from China Installation Association (2023), and the Golden Award of the Jinsui Award from the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering (2024). He currently serves as a young editorial board member of Chinese Laser Press, a young editorial board member of Advanced Photonics, and a technical committee member for several international conferences, including Photonics Asia, ASP-DAC, and ISEDA.

Teaching

  • Digital Signal Processing (2024 Spring)
  • Integrated Circuits Manufacturing Technology (2024 Fall)
  • AI Enhanced Integrated Circuits Manufacturing Technology (2025 Fall)