Huanmi Tan
谭欢秘, pronounced as /'hwɑnmi tæn/

I recently graduated with a Master's degree in Software Engineering from SCS of Carnegie Mellon University and will join AWS in Bellevue as a Software Development Engineer in June 2025. Before that, I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Tongji University. During my Bachelor degree, I interned at Shanghai AI Lab and ByteDance AI Lab.

My background in software engineering has provided me with strong engineering skills. Based on this foundation, my primary experiences and interests include but are not limited to:

  • NLP: LLM alignment, Low-resource NLP, Distillation
  • MLOps: ML Pipelines, Anomaly Detection

You could also refer to the projects page for details. Additionally, I am currently keen to explore the fields of LLMs and MLSys.

I am actively seeking a PhD position for Fall 2026. I am also open to discussing a wide range of interesting topics, including but not limited to potential collaboration opportunities. Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to have a chat!


Education
  • Carnegie Mellon University
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Master's in Software Engineering
    Aug. 2023 - Dec. 2024
  • Tongji University
    Tongji University
    B.E. in Software Engineering
    Sep. 2019 - Jul. 2023
  • North Carolina State University
    North Carolina State University
    GEARS Research Program
    Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2022
Experience
  • Amazon Web Services
    Amazon Web Services
    Software Development Engineer
    Jun. 2025 - Present
  • ByteDance AI Lab
    ByteDance AI Lab
    Intern | Volcano Machine Translation, AI Lab
    Mar. 2023 - Aug. 2023
  • Shanghai AI Lab
    Shanghai AI Lab
    Research Intern | AI for Imaging Group
    Nov. 2022 - Feb. 2023
News
2024
I received my Master's degree from CMU!
Dec 18
Selected Publications (view all )
VeriCoder: Enhancing LLM-Based RTL Code Generation through Functional Correctness Validation
VeriCoder: Enhancing LLM-Based RTL Code Generation through Functional Correctness Validation

Anjiang Wei, Huanmi Tan, Tarun Suresh, Daniel Mendoza, Thiago SFX Teixeira, Ke Wang, Caroline Trippel, Alex Aiken

arXiv preprint Under review. 2025

VeriCoder is a model for RTL (Register Transfer Level) code generation, fine-tuned on a novel dataset that is functionally validated via feedback-directed refinement. Unlike prior datasets that only ensure syntactic correctness, our dataset guarantees that each RTL design passes automatically generated unit tests aligned with its natural language specification. Our key contributions include: (1) a large-scale dataset of 125,000+ examples with simulation-passing RTL designs, (2) a feedback-driven construction methodology that iteratively refines designs and tests based on test results, (3) superior performance with up to +71.7% relative improvement on VerilogEval benchmarks, and (4) comprehensive resources including dataset, model weights, inference scripts, and training pipeline.

VeriCoder: Enhancing LLM-Based RTL Code Generation through Functional Correctness Validation

Anjiang Wei, Huanmi Tan, Tarun Suresh, Daniel Mendoza, Thiago SFX Teixeira, Ke Wang, Caroline Trippel, Alex Aiken

arXiv preprint Under review. 2025

VeriCoder is a model for RTL (Register Transfer Level) code generation, fine-tuned on a novel dataset that is functionally validated via feedback-directed refinement. Unlike prior datasets that only ensure syntactic correctness, our dataset guarantees that each RTL design passes automatically generated unit tests aligned with its natural language specification. Our key contributions include: (1) a large-scale dataset of 125,000+ examples with simulation-passing RTL designs, (2) a feedback-driven construction methodology that iteratively refines designs and tests based on test results, (3) superior performance with up to +71.7% relative improvement on VerilogEval benchmarks, and (4) comprehensive resources including dataset, model weights, inference scripts, and training pipeline.

All publications
Honors & Awards
  • Second Prize of Citi Cup (Fintech Innovation Application Competition)
    2022
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship of Tongji University (Top 10%)
    2022
  • Third Prize in Mobile Application Innovation Competition
    2021
  • First Prize of East China Region in Mobile Application Innovation Competition of CCCC
    2021
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship of Tongji University (Top 10%)
    2021
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship of Tongji University (Top 10%)
    2020
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