Ayomide Caleb Adekoya
hardware, ml, infra.
Now
building Tapeout Labs — we let small teams build custom chips with AI. placement beats published RL on HPWL, WNS, and area.
Background
Lagos (HS valedictorian) → Howard (EE + CS + Math, 4.0). 20 years old.
D.E. Shaw Latitude Fellow. Bloomberg Academy of Excellence. Alcon R&D. Harvard TinyML.
Previously
Selected work
Tapeout Labs, aPlace-Transitions [2026]
784k state transitions from a spectral-anchored analytical placer (LSE-HPWL with γ-annealing, differentiable bin-based density, multi-ordering legalization, directed swap refinement) across ISPD/ICCAD/ChiPBench benchmarks. beats OpenROAD RTL-MP on 18/20 modern RISC-V/GPU/NPU designs (42% mean HPWL improvement). released on Hugging Face.
Trace, AI-Native PCB Design Platform [2025]
forked KiCad for agentic control, designed custom intermediate representations (.trace_sch/.trace_pcb), shipped 65+ physical boards through manufacturing. acquired scheMAGIC, built manufacturer relationships with PCBWay (one-click fabrication) and Pikkolo (assembly). raised $150k pre-seed from Founders Inc and angels. covered in Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Entrepreneurial Mag, Daily Scanner, and a lot more.
RockSat-C, Vision-Guided Surgical Arm for Suborbital Flight [2024]
designed the electrical subsystem and activation circuitry for an autonomous robotic arm that performed incision and suturing on synthetic tissue during a NASA RockSat-C sounding rocket flight. latching relay activation from Wallops signal, separated 6V servo and 5V compute power domains, built the PCB, integrated OpenCV visual servoing with PID-controlled servo feedback. age 18.
