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Hai "Helen" Li

Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
Brain-inspired computing systems and neuromorphic design, memory design and architecture based on conventional and emerging technologies, and device/circuit/architecture co-design for low power and high performance.
Appointments and Affiliations
- Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
Contact Information
- Office Location: Rm103 Hudson Hall, 100 Science Dr., Durham, NC 27701
- Office Phone: (919) 660-1373
- Email Address: hai.li@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- Ph.D. Purdue University, 2004
Research Interests
Brain-inspired computing systems and neuromorphic design, memory design and architecture based on conventional and emerging technologies, and device/circuit/architecture co-design for low power and high performance.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Classification Accuracy Improvement for Neuromorphic Computing Systems with One-level Precision Synapses”. Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC). 2017
- Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow. University of Pittsburgh. 2016
- Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Quantitative Modeling of Racetrack Memory - A Tradeoff among Area, Performance, and Power”. Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC). 2015
- Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program Award (AF-SFFP). AFRL/RITC. 2015
- Best Paper Award for the paper titled “A Weighted Sensing Scheme for ReRAM-based Cross-point Memory Array”. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI). 2014
- Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Coordinating Prefetching and STT-RAM based Last-level Cache Management for Multicore Systems”. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI). 2013
- Air Force Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) Fellowship. AFRL/RIB. 2013
- DARPA Young Faculty Award. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). 2013
- NSF Career Award. National Science Foundation (NSF). 2012
- Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program Award (AF-SFFP). 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”. ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED). 2010
- Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Design Margin Exploration of Spin-Torque Transfer RAM (SPRAM)”. the 9th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). 2008
Courses Taught
- COMPSCI 350L: Digital Systems
- ECE 350L: Digital Systems
- ECE 550D: Fundamentals of Computer Systems and Engineering
- ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 891: Internship
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
In the News
- Hai Helen Li: New Pratt Professor Models the Future of Computing After the Human Brain (Jan 3, 2017)
Representative Publications
- Zhang, S; Zhang, GL; Li, B; Li, HH; Schlichtmann, U, Aging-aware Lifetime Enhancement for Memristor-based Neuromorphic Computing, Proceedings of the 2019 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, Date 2019 (2019), pp. 1751-1756 [10.23919/DATE.2019.8714954] [abs].
- Yang, J; Wang, X; Zhou, Q; Wang, Z; Li, H; Chen, Y; Zhao, W, Exploiting spin-orbit torque devices as reconfigurable logic for circuit obfuscation, Ieee Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol 38 no. 1 (2019), pp. 57-69 [10.1109/TCAD.2018.2802870] [abs].
- Nixon, KW; Mao, J; Shen, J; Yang, H; Li, HH; Chen, Y, SPN dash: Fast detection of adversarial attacks on mobile via sensor pattern noise fingerprinting, Ieee/Acm International Conference on Computer Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, Iccad (2018) [10.1145/3240765.3240851] [abs].
- Song, C; Cheng, HP; Yang, H; Li, S; Wu, C; Wu, Q; Chen, Y; Li, H, MAT: A multi-strength adversarial training method to mitigate adversarial attacks, Proceedings of Ieee Computer Society Annual Symposium on Vlsi, Isvlsi, vol 2018-July (2018), pp. 476-481 [10.1109/ISVLSI.2018.00092] [abs].
- Li, HH; Wang, Y; Wen, W, Message from the technical program chairs, Proceedings of Ieee Computer Society Annual Symposium on Vlsi, Isvlsi, vol 2018-July (2018), pp. xiii-xiv [10.1109/ISVLSI.2018.00006] [abs].