Hai (Helen) Li is a Professor and Clare Boothe Luce Associate Chair at Duke University's Electrical and Computer Engineering department. She was a TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Fellow (2017) hosted by Prof. Ulf Schlichtmann in the Neuromorphic Computing focus group. Education: B.S./M.S. from Tsinghua University, Ph.D. from Purdue University Positions: Qualcomm, Intel, Seagate, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, University of Pittsburgh Her research spans neuromorphic computing systems , machine learning acceleration , emerging memory technologies , and low-power circuits . Publications demonstrate expertise in ReRAM/memristor-based accelerators, sparse neural networks, and processing-in-memory architectures. Key contributions include cross-layer optimization frameworks and robust neuromorphic designs. Her awards include: 9 Best Paper Awards (ASPDAC, ICMLA, ISVLSI, etc.) NSF Career Award DARPA Young Faculty Award IEEE Fellow (2019) ACM Distinguished Member (2017) IEEE TCSDM Outstanding Leadership Award (2021)









