Hai Li, Ph.D.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Hai Li, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Hai Li, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Research Themes

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

Education

  • Ph.D. Purdue University, 2004

Positions

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

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Fellow (NAI). National Academy of Inventors. 2024
  • Fellow, Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES). Drexel University. 2022
  • Fellow. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 2018
  • Distinguished Member. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 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
  • Air Force Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) Fellowship. AFRL/RIB. 2013
  • DARPA Young Faculty Award. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). 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 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
  • ECE 891: Internship
  • ECE 661: Computer Engineering Machine Learning and Deep Neural Nets
  • ECE 550D: Fundamentals of Computer Systems and Engineering

Publications

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