Shimeng Yu
Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Address: 791 Atlantic Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
Office: Pettit (MiRC) 116
Phone: 404-894-2571
Education
Ph.D., electrical engineering, Stanford University, 2013
M.S., electrical engineering, Stanford University, 2011
B.S., microelectronics, Peking University, 2009
Research Interests
- Advanced Logic and Non-volatile Memories
- VLSI Design and IC Tape-out
- System/Design-Technology Co-optimization
- Monolithic and Heterogeneous 3D Integration
- AI Hardware
Biosketch
Shimeng Yu is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received the B.S. degree in microelectronics from Peking University in 2009, and the M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2011 and 2013, respectively. From 2013 to 2018, he was an assistant professor at Arizona State University. In 2023, he was promoted to the full professor.
Prof. Yu’s research interests are the semiconductor devices and integrated circuits for energy-efficient computing systems. His research expertise is on the emerging non-volatile memories for applications such as in-memory computing, AI hardware, monolithic and heterogeneous 3D integration.
Among Prof. Yu’s honors, he was a recipient of NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award in 2016, IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Early Career Award in 2017, ACM Special Interests Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) Outstanding New Faculty Award in 2018, Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Young Faculty Award in 2019, ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award in 2020, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Distinguished Lecturer, and IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Distinguished Lecturer, etc.
Prof. Yu has served many premier conferences as technical program committee, including IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology, IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), ACM/IEEE Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided-Design (ICCAD), etc. He currently serves the editor for IEEE Electron Device Letters. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Honors and Awards
- Georgia Tech Roger P. Webb ECE Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Award 2022
- IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Distinguished Lecturer 2022-2023
- IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Distinguished Lecturer 2021-2022
- ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award 2020
- Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Young Faculty Award 2019
- ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) Outstanding New Faculty Award 2018
- IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Early Career Award 2017
- ASU Fulton Schools of Engineering Outstanding Assistant Professor 2017
- IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems’ Best Reviewers 2017
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award 2016
- DoD- Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Summer Faculty Fellowship 2016
- DoD-Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Young Investigator Award 2015
- Qualcomm Fellowship for Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop 2013
- IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) PhD Student Fellowship 2012
- IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Masters Student Fellowship 2010
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship (SGF) 2009-2012
- Peking University Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award 2009