Winning the ICLAD Hackathon 2025 + My Experience at the ICLAD Conference
Winning the ICLAD Hackathon 2025 & My Experience at ICLAD Conference On June 26–27, 2025, I had the privilege of attending the International Conference on Large-Scale AI for Design (ICLAD) at Paul Brest Hall, Stanford University and even more exciting, I participated in (and my team won!) the ICLAD Hackathon, a competition focused on NVIDIA’s Comprehensive Verilog Design Problems (CVDP) benchmark and agentic AI debugging for real hardware. This blog is a reflection of the hackathon journey, what I learned about agentic LLM-based hardware debugging, my mentorship experience with Mark from NVIDIA, and my overall impressions of the conference, which was co-located with DAC 2025. ...