Plenary Speech
Yiran Chen, Ph.D. (Fellow, IEEE)
John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University
Durham, NC, United States
Email: yiran.chen@duke.edu
Biography:
Yiran Chen (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 2005. He is currently the John Cocke Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering with Duke University, the Director of the NSF AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging the Next-Generation Networks (Athena) and the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC), and the Co-Director of the Duke Center for Computational Evolutionary Intelligence (DCEI). He received 11 best paper awards, one best poster award, and 15 best paper nominations from international conferences and workshops. He received numerous awards for his technical contributions and professional services, such as the IEEE CASS Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award and the IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award. He has been the Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE CEDA and CAS.(Based on document published on 6 February 2025).
More InformationTsu-Chin Tsao, Ph.D. (Fellow, ASME)
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Email: ttsao@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-2819
Biography:
Dr. Tsu-Chin Tsao (B.S. National Taiwan University, Taiwan, M.S., Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley) is Distinguished Professor at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of California Los Angeles. His research interest includes control systems, mechatronics, and robotics. An ASME Fellow, Dr. Tsao has served in leadership and editorship positions as Department Chair and Journal’s Editor-in-Chief. His work was recognized by several Best Paper Awards, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Mechatronic Systems Outstanding Research Award, ASME Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award, and IFAC Outstanding Service Award. Dr. Tsao has engaged in numerous fundamental and applied research projects for science foundations, mission oriented agencies, and industrial sectors in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, medical and health.
More InformationHai (Helen) Li, Ph.D. (Fellow, IEEE)
Marie Foote Reel E’46 Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University
Durham, NC, United States
Email: hai.li@duke.edu
Biography:
Hai (Helen) Li (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 2004. She is currently the Clare Boothe Luce Professor and the Department Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Duke University. Her current research interests include neuromorphic circuits and systems for brain-inspired computing, machine learning acceleration and trustworthy AI, conventional and emerging memory design and architecture, and software and hardware co-design. She was a recipient of the NSF Career Award in 2012, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2013, the TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Fellowship from Germany in 2017, and the ELATE Fellowship in 2020. She received nine best paper awards and additional nine best paper nominations from international conferences. She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CAS Society from 2018 to 2019 and a Distinguished Speaker of ACM from 2017 to 2020.(Based on document published on 6 February 2025).
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