Ningyuan Cao

Ningyuan Cao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, College of Engineering. He leads the Circuit and System Intelligence Research Lab, focusing on the intersection of advanced hardware design and real-time/low-power machine learning applications.

Education:

• Ph.D., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2020)
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Columbia University (2015)
• B.S., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2013)

His research investigates custom analog/mixed-signal circuits, digital architecture, and micro-system design for machine learning acceleration, distributed intelligence, and data-driven IC design automation. Key application domains include Internet-of-Everything, tactile internet, and mixed reality systems.

Recent publications highlight work on Bayesian neural networks, privacy-preserving bio-signal encoders, transformer-based surrogate models, and compute-in-memory architectures. Technical themes span neuromorphic computing, uncertainty quantification, and hardware security.