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Hai "Helen" Li

Marie Foote Reel E'46 Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
RM130 Hudson Hall, Box 90291, Durham, NC 27701
#407 Wilkinson Building, 534 Research Drive, Durham, NC 27701
Office hours Appointment by email hai.li@duke.edu  

Awards & Honors


Fellow (NAI)

National National Academy of Inventors · 2024 More about this award

Fellow, Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES)

Other Drexel University · 2022 Drexel University’s Executive Leadership in Academic Technology, Engineering and Science (ELATES at Drexel®) program, a one of a kind professional development program for women in academic STEM fields, is pleased to announce the selection of its 2021-2022 class of Fellows. ELATES at Drexel is a one year, part-time program that focuses on increasing personal and professional leadership effectiveness, leading and managing change initiatives within institutions, using strategic finance and resource management to enhance organizational missions, and creating a network of exceptional women who bring organizational perspectives and deep personal capacity to the institutions and society they serve. F More about this award

Distinguished Member

Scholarly Society Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · 2018 The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes up to 10 percent of ACM worldwide membership based on professional experience as well as significant achievements in the computing field. More about this award

Fellow

Scholarly Society Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) · 2018 For contributions to neuromorphic computing systems. More about this award

Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Classification Accuracy Improvement for Neuromorphic Computing Systems with One-level Precision Synapses”

International Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) · January 2017 http://www.aspdac.com/aspdac2017/awards/

Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow

University University of Pittsburgh · 2016

Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Quantitative Modeling of Racetrack Memory - A Tradeoff among Area, Performance, and Power”

International Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) · January 2015 http://www.aspdac.com/aspdac2015/awards/

Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program Award (AF-SFFP)

National AFRL/RITC · 2015

Best Paper Award for the paper titled “A Weighted Sensing Scheme for ReRAM-based Cross-point Memory Array”

International IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) · July 2014

Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Coordinating Prefetching and STT-RAM based Last-level Cache Management for Multicore Systems”

International Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) · April 2013

Air Force Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) Fellowship

National AFRL/RIB · 2013

DARPA Young Faculty Award

National Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) · 2013 http://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/for-universities/young-faculty-award

NSF Career Award

National National Science Foundation (NSF) · 2012

Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program Award (AF-SFFP)

National AFRL/RITC · 2011

Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Combined Magnetic- and Circuit-level Enhancements for the Nondestructive Self-Reference Scheme of STT-RAM”

International ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) · August 2010

Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Design Margin Exploration of Spin-Torque Transfer RAM (SPRAM)”

International the 9th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) · March 2008

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