Hai "Helen" Li

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Marie Foote Reel E’46 Distinguished Professor

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Research Themes

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Hardware & Software, Trustworthy Computing

Education

  • Ph.D. Purdue University, 2004

Positions

  • Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Marie Foote Reel E'46 Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Professor of Computer Science

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Fellow, Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES). Drexel University. 2022
  • Distinguished Member. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2018
  • Fellow. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 2018
  • Best Paper Award for the paper titled u201cClassification Accuracy Improvement for Neuromorphic Computing Systems with One-level Precision Synapsesu201d. Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC). 2017
  • Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow. University of Pittsburgh. 2016
  • Best Paper Award for the paper titled u201cQuantitative Modeling of Racetrack Memory - A Tradeoff among Area, Performance, and Poweru201d. Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC). 2015
  • Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program Award (AF-SFFP). AFRL/RITC. 2015
  • Best Paper Award for the paper titled u201cA Weighted Sensing Scheme for ReRAM-based Cross-point Memory Arrayu201d. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI). 2014
  • Best Paper Award for the paper titled u201cCoordinating Prefetching and STT-RAM based Last-level Cache Management for Multicore Systemsu201d. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI). 2013
  • DARPA Young Faculty Award. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). 2013
  • Air Force Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) Fellowship. AFRL/RIB. 2013
  • NSF Career Award. National Science Foundation (NSF). 2012
  • Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program Award (AF-SFFP). AFRL/RITC. 2011
  • Best Paper Award for the paper titled u201cCombined Magnetic- and Circuit-level Enhancements for the Nondestructive Self-Reference Scheme of STT-RAMu201d. ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED). 2010
  • Best Paper Award for the paper titled u201cDesign Margin Exploration of Spin-Torque Transfer RAM (SPRAM)u201d. the 9th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). 2008

Courses Taught

  • ECE 891: Internship
  • ECE 661: Computer Engineering Machine Learning and Deep Neural Nets
  • ECE 550D: Fundamentals of Computer Systems and Engineering
  • ECE 494: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • ECE 493: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering

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