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). His research interests
include integrated circuit and biomedical signal processing.
Dr. Xin Li has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on
Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) since
2012 and an Associate Editor of Journal of Low Power Electronics
(JOLPE) since 2011. He served on the ACM/SIGDA Outstanding PhD
Dissertation Award Selection Committee in 2013, the Technical Program
Committee of Design Automation Conference (DAC) from 2011 to 2013, 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, the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Best
Paper Award in 2013, 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.