Current · 2026 —

Allen Huang .

RFIC & mmWave engineer building ML-augmented design flows for the next generation of integrated systems. AI-native by daily practice. Currently @ UC Irvine, open to industry conversations.

Focus RFIC · mmWave · ML design flow + circuits

Station Irvine, CA → anywhere open to relocation

Stack model = opus-4-6 AI-augmented daily

§ I Currently

05 threads · updated 2026·04

01 · eda · cadence · skill

EDA automation for analog & RF layout

Scripting Cadence Virtuoso / SKILL into a reproducible pipeline; turning the artisan craft of IC layout into something versioned, testable, and shareable.
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02 · ml · layout · rf

ML-guided placement & routing

Training models on the geometry of good hand-drawn layouts to propose draft topologies for passives, matching networks, and mmWave routing.
02 / 05
03 · vco · pll · mmwave

mmWave PLL / VCO circuit work

Phase-noise-aware VCO design; injection-locked dividers; wideband phase-locked loops for the next generation of instrumentation and links.
03 / 05
04 · cpo · photonics · rf

Co-packaged optics, from the RF side

Notes on what changes for an RF designer when the signal leaves the die as light instead of as a transmission-line mode. Where the 'vex' in cpovex comes from.
04 / 05
05 · ai · agent · claude-code · eda

AI-augmented analog/RF design workflows

Building agent-driven pipelines on top of Cadence SKILL with Claude Code. Daily driver since Q1 2026.
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