He, Lei

Lei He, Professor and Area Director, Circuits and Embedded Systems

IBM Faculty Fellow, 2003

Research Group: Design Automation Laboratory

Office: 6731D Boelter Hall, Phone: 310.206.2037, Email

Biography

Lei He is professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from UCLA in 1999. Prior to joining the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department faculty in 2002, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Professor He was honored by a 1999-2000 Outstanding PhD Award from UCLA, and was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award on "interconnect-centric layout design with consideration of inductance" in 2000. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.

Research Interests

Professor He's research and teaching interests focus on modeling and simulation, programmable logic and reconfigurable computing, and embedded and cyber-physical systems for applications such as health care, electric vehicle and smart grid.

Awards and Recognitions

• 2011  IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Award
• 2010 Best Paper Award from the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
• 2008 Best Contribution Award from ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis
• 2006 Best Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE Int. Symp. on Physical Design
• 2005 Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award
• 2003 IBM Faculty Award
• 2003 UCLA Chancellor's Faculty Development Award
• 2003 Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. Application-Specific ICs
• 2000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award