Welcome!

I am Zelun Pan, a Ph.D. student at the School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University. I’m fortunate to be advised by Prof. Yuchao Yang and Prof. Yaoyu Tao. I received B.S in EECS, Peking University, in 2024 as an outstanding graduate.

My research interests focus on

• Heterogeneous Archieture, including memory-centric architectures, optical-electrical computing accelerators and etc.

• In-Memory-Computing (IMC) chip design.

📖 Educations

• 2024.09 - Present, Ph.D. Student at School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University
• 2020.09 - 2024.06, B.S at EECS, Peking University. Rank: 2/46, Excellent Graduate
• 2023.09 - 2024.01, Exchange Student at Department of Computer Science, UCL

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2026 1st Prize in the 9th ‘Huawei Cup’ China Postgraduate IC Innovation Competition (Top 18 in China)
• 2024 Excellent Graduate (24’ Fall) of Peking University
• 2020 - 2023 Merit Student & Peacemaker of Merit Student
• 2023 Jiukun Scholarship (Top 5%)
• 2022 AEON Scholarship (Top 5%)
• 2021 AEON Scholarship (Top 5%)
• 2019 Second Prize of 36th CPhO

🔥 News

• 2026.08:  🔥 We won 1st Prize in the 9th China Postgraduate IC Innovation Competition (CPICIC) in Shenzhen, ranking among the top 18 teams nationwide!🔗 Read More
• 2026.07:  🎤 Gave two oral presentations at Design Automation Condference (DAC) 2026!
• 2026.07： 🧠 Our collaborative paper was published on Science!🔗 Read more
• 2026.05： 📄 Our paper was accepted at ESSERC’26!
• 2026.02： 📄 Our paper was accepted at DAC’26!
• 2026.01： 📄 Our collaborative paper was published on Nature Electronics!🔗 Read more
• 2026.01:  🔥 Passed my Ph.D. qualification exam!
• 2025.12： 🎤 Gave an oral presentation at IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) 2025!🔗 Read more
• 2025.11:  🔥 Presneted a poster at 2025 AI Tech Day!
• 2025.09:  🎤 Gave an oral presentation at IEEE European Conference on Solid-State Circuits (ESSERC) 2025!
• 2025.09:  📄 Our collaborative paper was selected as Technology Highlight at IEDM’25! 🔗 Read more
• 2025.09:  📄 One paper and two collaborative papers were accepted at IEDM’25!
• 2025.05:  📄 Our collaborative paper was accepted at Nature Electronics!
• 2025.05:  📄 One paper was accepted at ESSERC’25! 🔗 Read more
• 2024.08:  📄 Our collaborative paper was accepted at IEDM’24!
• 2024.06:  🔥 Awarded 24’Fall Excellent Graduate of Peking University!
• 2024.02:  📄 Our collaborative paper was accepted by Nature Communications!

📝 Main Publications

Conference Papers

DAC'26

[DAC’26][PiMM-NoC: Process-in-Memristor-Memory NoC with RL Mapping Framework for Versatile AI Models]

Ziang Xie^#, Yaoyu Tao^#^, Zelun Pan^#, Haojun Chen^#, Zhiyuan Li, Qinghao Wang, Zhiming Pan, Yihang Zhu, Zixiang Luo, Yian Yang, Mo Guang, Kaiwen Long, Yaodong Yang, Yuchao Yang^ (^#Equally Contributed)

Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2026, Los Angeles, USA, 2026

IEDM'25

[IEDM’25]A 40nm Mixed-Precision PCM Chip with Fused Analog/Digital Compute-in-Memory and Adaptive Drift Compensation for Embodied AI Applications

Zelun Pan^#, Longhao Yan^#, Xile Wang, Bowen Wang, Yueying Luo, Zhe Zhan, Xi Li, Yuqi Li, Lei Cai, Teng Zhang, Minghui Yin, Yaoyu Tao^, Zhitang Song^ and Yuchao Yang^

IEEE Electorn Devices Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, USA, 2025

ESSERC'25

[ESSERC’25]A 1308 TOPS/W Charge-Mode ReRAM CIM Macro with 4T2R2C Differential Cell and FIA-Based Analog Accumulation for AI Inference

Longhao Yan^#, Zelun Pan^#, Zhe Zhan, Daijing Shi, Yihang Zhu, Yaoyu Tao^, Yuchao Yang^ (^#Equally Contributed)

IEEE European Conference on Solid-State Circuits (ESSERC), Munich, Germany, 2025.

👥 Collaborative Publications

Conference Papers

• [IEDM’25] Longhao Yan^#, Zhe Zhan^#, Zelun Pan, Bowen Wang, Yaoyu Tao and Yuchao Yang^ An 8Mb Learning-Aware RRAM Compute-in-Memory Accelerator for Embodied Self-Supervised Learning 2025 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2025 (Technology Highlight)

• [IEDM’25] Longhao Yan^#, Zitong Zheng^#, Xi Li, Xile Wang, Zhe Zhan, Jiukai Fang, Minghui Yin, Zelun Pan, Song Jia, Yaoyu Tao, Zhitang Song^, Yuchao Yang^ Efficient Multimodal Fusion with Intelligent Predictive Programming Based on 64-Core PCM Compute-in-Memory Processor 2025 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2025

• [ICTA’25] Bowen Wang^#, Longhao Yan^#, Xiyuan Tang, Xile Wang, Yuqi Li, Zeyu Wang, Zelun Pan, Daijing Shi, Zhe Zhan, Yaoyu Tao, Zhitang Song^, Yuchao Yang^. A 617.7 TOPS/W PCM-Based Charge-Domain CIM Macro with Capacitor Reuse Method and Scalable Local Compute Unit. IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits, Technologies and Applications (ICTA), 2025.
• [IEDM’24] Longhao Yan^#, Yuqi Li^#, Xi Li, Zelun Pan, Zeyu Wang, Xile Wang, Bowen Wang, Zhe Zhan, Xiyuan Tang, Yaoyu Tao, Woo-Ping Ge, Zhitang Song^, Ru Huang^, Yuchao Yang^ Neural Manifold Learning Based on 40 nm Dual-Mode PCM Compute-in-Memory Chip with Hardware Adaptive Drift Compensation. IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2024.

Journal Articles

Science'26

[Science] A sub–10-millisecond neural dynamical system based on phase-change memristors

Lei Cai^#, Yaoyu Tao^^#, Chenchen Xie^#, Longhao Yan^#, Shiqian Li, Ruihong Shen, Zelun Pan, Xile Wang, Bowen Wang, Daijing Shi, Yihang Zhu, Teng Zhang, Yixin Zhu^, Xi Li, Zhitang Song^, Ru Huang, and Yuchao Yang^.

# Equal contribution \^ Corresponding authors

Science, 393(6806), pp.105-112.

• [Nat. Electron.] Cai, Lei, Yaoyu Tao, Teng Zhang, Chang Liu, Pek Jun Tiw, Lianfeng Yu, Zelun Pan et al. A first-principles hetero-integrated Fourier transform system based on memristors. Nature Electronics (2026): 1-13.
• [Nat. Electron.] Lianfeng Yu, Teng Zhang, Zeyu Wang, Xile Wang, Zelun Pan, Bowen Wang, Zhaokun Jing, Jiaxin Liu, Yuqi Li, Ziang Xie, Yihang Zhu, Bonan Yan, Yaoyu Tao^, Yuchao Yang^. A fast and reconfigurable sort-in-memory system based on memristors. Nature Electronics, 2025.
• [Nat. Commun.] Chang Liu, Pek Jun Tiw, Teng Zhang, Yanghao Wang, Lei Cai, Rui Yuan, Zelun Pan, Wenshuo Yue, Yaoyu Tao^, Yuchao Yang^. VO2 memristor-based frequency converter with in-situ synthesize and mix for wireless internet-of-things. Nature Communications, 2024.

Preprint Articles

• [arXiv] Lianfeng Yu, Yaoyu Tao^, Teng Zhang, Zeyu Wang, Xile Wang, Zelun Pan, Bowen Wang, Zhaokun Jing, Jiaxin Liu, Yuqi Li, Yihang Zhu, Bonan Yan, Yuchao Yang^. Fast and reconfigurable sort-in-memory system enabled by memristors. arXiv, 2024.

💬 Oral Presentations

• 2026.08, CPICIC’26 “A High-Reliability Mixed-Precision PCM Compute-in-Memory Chip for Edge Intelligence”
• 2026.07, DAC’26 “PiMM-NoC: Process-in-Memristor-Memory NoC with RL Mapping Framework for Versatile AI Models”
• 2026.07, DAC’26 “M²CAM: A Multi-level Memristor-based Self-adaptive CAM Architecture for Genome Processing Acceleration”
• 2025.12, IEDM’25 “A 40nm Mixed-Precision PCM Chip with Fused Analog/Digital Compute-in-Memory and Adaptive Drift Compensation for Embodied AI Applications”
• 2025.09, ESSERC’25 “A 1308 TOPS/W Charge-Mode ReRAM CIM Macro with 4T2R2C Differential Cell and FIA-Based Analog Accumulation for AI Inference”

🔭 Projects

I like to write some random codes in my spare time, check them out here

• A Lightweight CNN for Ellipsy Detection and Prediction
• A Simple 5 Stage Pipelined RISC-V CPU with a Customized Accelerator
• A ResNet-20 with Learned Step Quantization(LSQ) and Noise-aware Training

💻 Internships

I’m actively searching for internships in IC design and AI algorithms. Please reach out to me if interested!

👨🏻‍🎓 Services

• TA of AIArchPKU 25’Spring

Curriculum Vitae

• 中文 CV
• English CV