Lei Yang

Dr. Lei Yang is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University. Before that, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She received her PhD degree and BE degree in 2019 and 2013, respectively, from Chongqing University, China. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.

She has experience as a research scholar at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Pittsburgh from 2017 to 2019. Lei’s primary research interests lie in the joint area of Hardware/Software Co-Exploration for Neural Network Architectures, Embedded Systems, Hardware/Software Co-Exploration for Neural Architectures, Embedded Systems, and High-Performance Computing. She is passionate about Systems, Hardware/Software Co-Exploration for Neural Architectures, Automated Machine Learning, and system-level Design and Optimization for Applied Machine Learning.

ORCID: 0000-0002-0646-440X

Degrees

• PhD, Computer Science, Chongqing University