# Shui Song Luar

> Founding Engineer at SoraNova building AI knowledge platforms — production LLM systems, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development. Based in Singapore.

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## About

- [About](https://luarss.github.io/about/): Background, experience, education, and skills. Founding Engineer at SoraNova; previously AI Engineer at Espressif Systems and Graduate Research Assistant at NUS (IROS 2021 Best Paper Award).

## Projects & Publications

- [Projects index](https://luarss.github.io/projects/): Open source projects, publications, talks, and writing.
- [nova-agent-runtime](https://github.com/SoraNovaAI/agent-runtime): AI agent framework with integrated tools, multi-agent workflows, evaluation loops, native MCP integration, and YAML-based declarative configuration.
- [openroad-mcp](https://github.com/luarss/openroad-mcp): MCP server enabling real-time AI-driven debugging for chip designers in OpenROAD.
- [ORAssistant](https://github.com/luarss/ORAssistant): Production-ready LLM chatbot assistant for the OpenROAD chip design tool.

## Publications

- [ORAssistant: A Custom RAG-based Conversational Assistant for OpenROAD](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03845) (WOSET 2024): RAG-based conversational assistant for chip design automation.
- [Extended Tactile Perception: Vibration Sensing through Tools and Grasped Objects](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.00489) (IROS 2021, Best Paper Award): ML classification on high-dimensional time-series tactile sensor data.

## Writing

- [OpenROAD MCP: Let AI Close Your Timing](https://dev.to/luarss/openroad-mcp-let-ai-close-your-timing-47h6) (Feb 2026): Server enabling AI assistants to drive OpenROAD for timing analysis and constraint adjustment.
- [Building Robust AI Research Agents: A tale of five specialists](https://soranovaai.github.io/post/deep-research) (Nov 2025): Four architectural iterations of a deep research workflow for VCs.
- [Multi-Agent Systems Are 23x Cheaper Than Deep Research Models with Higher Quality](https://soranovaai.github.io/post/multi-agent-hypothesis-generation-benchmark) (Nov 2025): Benchmarking 11 specialised agents against single-model and deep reasoning models across 5 scientific domains.

## Blog

- [Posts](https://luarss.github.io/posts/): Longer-form writing.

## Contact

- GitHub: https://github.com/luarss
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/song-luar/
- Email: espsluar@gmail.com

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