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Hai "Helen" Li

Professor in the Department 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  

Research Interests


Neuromorphic computing systems
Machine learning acceleration and trustworthy AI
Emerging memory technologies, circuit and architecture
Low power circuits and systems

Selected Grants


DoD Center of Excellence in Advanced Computing and Software (COE-ACS)

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Georgia State University · 2023 - 2028

PARTNER: Neuro-Inspired AI for the Edge at UTSA (NAIAD)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The University of Texas at San Antonio · 2023 - 2027

AI Institute: Athena: AI-Driven Next-generation Networks at the Edge

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2026

FuSe: Codesigning devices in neural network for computer vision

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2026

CCF Core: Small: Hardware/Software Co-Design for Sustainability at the Edge

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2025

UAS Detection, Classification and Tracking with Millimeter-Wave MIMO Radar

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Toyon Research Corporation · 2022 - 2025

IUCRC Proposal Phase 1 Duke: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC)

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2025

Conference: NSF Workshop on Hardware-Software Co-design for Neuro-Symbolic Computation

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2024

Collaborative Research: ASCENT: 3D memristor convolutional kernels with diffusive memristor based reservoir for real-time machine learning

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Massachusetts - Amherst · 2020 - 2024

Multi-agent Collaborative Learning and Inference at the Edge

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Georgia State University · 2022 - 2024

Track D: The Community Resource for Innovation in Polymer Technology (CRIPT)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2021 - 2023

FET: Small:RESONANCE:Accelerating Speech/Language Processing through Collective Training using Commodity ReRAM Chips

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023

A Hardware and Software Co-design Framework for Energy Efficient Neuromorphic Systems

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2020 - 2022

SPX: Collaborative Research: Ula! - An Integrated DNN Acceleration Framework with Enhanced Unsupervised Learning Capability

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2022

NSF Convergence Accelerator Track D: A Trusted Integrative Model and Data Sharing Platform for Accelerating AI-Driven Health Innovation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2022

Neural-Network Enhanced Radar Surveillance (NNERS)

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2020 - 2022

The Controller Design and Integration of Memristor-based Neuromorphic System

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Research Laboratory · 2018 - 2021

Quantifying Ensemble Diversity for Robust Machine Learning (QED RML)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Radiance Technologies, Inc. · 2019 - 2021

CSR: SMALL: Collaborative Research: GAMBIT: Efficient Graph Processing on a Memristor-based Embedded Computing Platform

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2020

Scalable Event-driven Neuromorphic Learning Mechanics for Human-centric Computing

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Intel Corporation · 2017 - 2020

Reverse Engineering of Deceptions (RED)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Radiance Technologies, Inc. · 2019 - 2020

SMALE: Enhancing Scalability of Machine Learning Algorithms on Extreme Scale Computing Platforms

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2017 - 2020

Systematically Studying Backdoor Attacks on DNNs and Developing a Detection Architecture

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2019 - 2019

SHF:Small: Cross-Platform Solutions for Pruning and Accelerating Neural Models

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2019

NeoNexus: The Next-generation Information Processing System across Digital and Neuromorphic Computing Domains

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2018

Planning IUCRC Duke University: Center for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2018

The Design of Neuromorphic Controller System Built with Memristor Crossbars

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Pittsburgh · 2017 - 2017

External Relationships


  • AICAS 2024 conference
  • Aicadium
  • DATE 2024 conference
  • DOE
  • Design Automation Conference (DAC)
  • IEEE
  • Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea (IEIE)
  • Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
  • Penn State University
  • Purdue University
  • Technology and Research (A*STAR)
  • The Implementation Group (TIG)
  • US National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • University of California Irvine

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