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, P. R. China, in 2001 and 1998, respectively.
He is currently a research scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He was a summer intern at Extreme DA, Palo Alto, CA, in 2004. In 2005, he co-founded Xigmix Inc., a startup company in Pittsburgh, PA to commercialize his PhD research, and served as the chief technical officer until the company was acquired by Extreme DA in 2007. His research interests include modeling, simulation and synthesis for analog/RF and digital systems.
Dr. Xin Li served on the IEEE Outstanding Young Author Award Selection Committee in 2006. He received the Best Session Award from Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Student Symposium in 2006, the Best Paper Nomination from Design Automatic Conference (DAC) in 2006, and the IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award in 2004. He also received the Inventor Recognition Awards from Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO) in 2006 and 2007.