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Yiran Chen

John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
130 Hudson Hall, PO Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708
405 Wilkison Building, 534 Research Dr., Durham, NC 27705
Office hours Appointment only.  

Awards & Honors


Distinguished Visitor

Other IEEE Computer Society · 2024

Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring

Other Duke University · 2024

Distinguished Lecturer

Other IEEE Circuits and Systems Society · 2023 More about this award

Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award

Other Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Circuits and Systems Society · 2023 The Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award honors the individual whose exceptional technical contributions to a field within the scope of the CAS Society have been consistently evident over a period of years. Contributions are documented by publications (including but not limited to patents) and based on originality and continuity of effort, contributions to CAS Society. All CAS Society members are eligible for nomination. More about this award

Fellow (NAI)

Scholarly Society National Academy of Inventors · 2023

Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award

Other Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University · 2022

Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award

Scholarly Society Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Computer Society · 2022 For outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology. More about this award

AAAS Fellow

Other American Association for the Advancement of Science · 2022 More about this award

Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers

Other Clarivate · 2021

Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer (OECE) Award

Department Purdue’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2021 More about this award

HPCA Hall of Fame

Other IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Computer Architecture · 2020 The HPCA Hall of Fame lists the authors with eight or more papers in the International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). More about this award

ACM Fellow

Scholarly Society Association for Computing Machinery · 2020 For Contributions to Nonvolatile Memory Technologies More about this award

Distinguished Lecturer

Other IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation · 2018 More about this award

IEEE Fellow

Scholarly Society Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · 2018 For Contributions to Spintronic Memory More about this award

Outstanding New Faculty Award

Other ACM’s Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) · 2014 The SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award recognizes a junior faculty member early in her or his academic career who demonstrates outstanding potential as an educator and/or researcher in the field of electronic design automation. More about this award