Leilai Shao
Professor, Namibia University of Science and Technology
Introduction
Leilai Shao is an assistant professor and doctoral supervisor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. From 2011 to 2015, he obtained a bachelor's degree in Electronic Information Engineering from Zhejiang University (Zhu Kezhen College). From 2015 to 2018, he obtained a master’s degree in ECE from University of California, Santa Barbara. From 2018 to 2020, he obtained the Ph.D. degree in ECE from the University of California, Santa Barbara, his research supervisor is Tim Cheng. From 2020 to 2021, he joined Facebook as a data scientist. Since September 2021, he joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University. During his doctoral period from 2015 to 2020, he worked closely with HP Labs, Facebook, Tencent and other industrial laboratories, and engaged in the algorithm research of large-scale integrated circuit design (VLSI), flexible electronics, circuit design automation (EDA) and machine learning of new semiconductor electronics for a long time. He has published more than 20 articles in top journals and conferences in related fields, including multiple Invited Papers, one work (including a joint work) 8, Including (Nature Communications, IEEE/ACM Design&Test, IEEE/ACM DAC, IEEE DATE, IEEE ASP-DAC). He has also received Best Paper Award Nominations from IEEE DATE 2018, the top conference in the EDA field.
