Yang "Cindy" Yi
- Director, Multifunctional Integrated Circuits & Systems Center (MICS)
Yang (Cindy) Yi is a tenured associate professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), a member of the Virginia Tech Innovation Campus faculty, and the director of Multifunctional Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab at Virginia Tech. Currently, she is also a College of Engineering faculty fellow. In the past 15 years, she has been working on various research topics in the area of integrated circuits, high performance computing, and communication design at Texas A&M University, IBM, Freescale, Intel, Texas Instruments (TI), University of Missouri, Kansas City, and University of Kansas. She has more than 150 publications in international journals and conference proceedings and eight of her papers have been selected as Best Paper Awards (Charles K. Kao Best Paper Award in 2020, IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing Committee (TCGCC) in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) in 2018, IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED) in 2018, and IEEE Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems Technical Committee (TAOS) in International Conference on Communications (ICC) in 2018, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) in 2016, etc.)
- Integrated circuits and systems
- High-performance computing
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Neuromorphic computing
- Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS)
For Professor Yi's recent publications, please visit her Google Scholar page.