# Lei He

PROFESSOR
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

6731D Boelter Hall

Email: lhe@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 206-2037
Fax:

Websites

- Design Automation Laboratory
- UCLA Clean Energy Research

##### RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) for Education, Health, Transportation, and Power and Water Sustainability
- Programmable Logic (FPGA), Re-Configurable Computing, AI-on-A-Chip, Neuromorphic Computing, and Quantum Computing
- Modeling, Simulation and Validation for VLSI Circuits, Software, and IoT Systems

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##### EDUCATION

- 1994-1999 University of California Los Angeles, CA Ph.D. in Computer Science Dissertation: Modeling and Optimization of VLSI Interconnects
- 1986-1990 Fudan University Shanghai, China B.S. in Electrical Engineering Thesis: Fast Timing Simulation for CMOS Circuits

##### AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- 2013, IEEE Design Automation Conference Prolific Author Award, “DAC 25 Club”
- 2013, IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Top 10 Author Award for fifth Decade
- 2012, US-China Ecopartnershp Award, US Department of State, China National Development and Reform Commission
- 2011, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award
- 2010, Best Paper Award, the ACM Trans. on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
- 2008, Best Contribution Award, Programming Challenge, IEEE International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis
- 2007, SRC Inventor Award
- 2006, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Physical Design Best Paper Award
- 2005, Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award
- 2003, IBM Faculty Partner Award
- 2003, Best Student Paper Award, the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Application Specific Integrated Circuits
- 2003, UCLA Chancellor’s Early Faculty Development Award
- 2000, National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- 2000, Distinguished PhD Award, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
- 1997, Prize for Engineering and Technology, the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation
- 1993, Best Paper Award, Chinese Computer Foundation CAD/CAM Conference
- 1990, Top Graduating Student Award, Fudan University