Short Biography
Xin Li received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA in 2005, and the M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 2001 and 1998, respectively.
He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA. In 2005, he co-founded Xigmix Inc. to commercialize his
PhD research, and served as the Chief Technical Officer until the
company was acquired by Extreme DA in 2007. In 2011, Extreme DA was
further acquired by Synopsis (Nasdaq: SNPS).
Since 2009, he has been appointed as the Assistant Director for FCRP
Focus Research Center for Circuit & System Solutions (C2S2), a
national consortium of 13 research universities (CMU, MIT, Stanford,
Berkeley, UIUC, UMich, Columbia, UCLA, among others) chartered by the
U.S. semiconductor industry and U.S. Department of Defense to work on
next-generation integrated circuit design challenges. His research
interests include computer-aided design, neural signal processing, and
power system analysis and design.
Dr. Xin Li has been an Associated Editor of IEEE Trans. on
Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) since
2012 and an Associated Editor of Journal of Low Power Electronics
(JOLPE) since 2011. He served on the Technical Program Committee of
Design Automation Conference (DAC) from 2011 to 2012, the Technical
Program Committee of International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
(ICCAD) from 2008 to 2011, the Technical Program Committee of
International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and
Synthesis of Digital Systems (TAU) from 2010 to 2012, the Technical
Program Committee of International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI) in
2009, and the IEEE Outstanding Young Author Award Selection Committee
in 2006. He received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award
(CAREER) in 2012, a Best Paper Award from Design Automation Conference
(DAC) in 2010 and two IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper
Awards in 2004 and 2011.