{"675729":{"#nid":"675729","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Yu Named Dean\u2019s Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E Professor Shimeng Yu was appointed to the Dean\u2019s Professorship, effective on August 1, 2024.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe was selected to the five-year appointment for his exceptional record of scholarship and service to the Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYu joined ECE in 2018, bringing his expertise in semiconductor devices and integrated circuits for AI hardware. He currently runs the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/shimeng.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ELaboratory for Emerging Devices and Circuits.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe primary challenge in current AI acceleration is the extensive data movement cost between the compute and memory components. His research aims to close that gap to greatly improve the compute throughput and energy efficiency through innovations in a variety of memory technologies and 3D integration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis research has received support from federal agencies like the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, and the Department of Education, as well as from industry sponsors such as the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Intel, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Samsung, SK Hynix, Qualcomm, Sony, IMEC, and Google.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe\u0027s received recognition and awards from some of the top organizations in his field. He was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/12\/ieee-fellow-status-bestowed-upon-durgin-kim-inan-yu-and-zhang\u0022\u003Enamed an IEEE Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E for his contributions to non-volatile memories and in-memory computing, and won \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/yu-receives-intel-outstanding-research-award-novel-computing-hardware\u0022\u003EIntel\u0027s Outstanding Researcher Award\u003C\/a\u003E for a prototype small-scale accelerator chip that is able to quantify uncertainty in modern computer hardware, allowing for improved computing robustness.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYu holds many other responsibilities outside of his ECE appointments for building ecosystem in the research community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe leads the open-source NeuroSim platform that provides a benchmark tool for AI hardware that encompasses a wide range of technology flavors and supports machine learning algorithms from convolutional neural networks to transformers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is also the theme lead of two SRC\/DARPA Joint University Microelectronics Program (JUMP) 2.0 centers on intelligent memory\/storage and heterogeneous\/monolithic 3D integration, as well as serving as the technical program committee for two flagship conferences in the field of semiconductors: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ieee-iedm.org\/\u0022\u003EIEEE International Electron Devices Meeting\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vlsisymposium.org\/\u0022\u003EIEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYu also has a series of YouTube lectures that aim to train the next generation of engineers with domain expertise in memory technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore coming to ECE he was an assistant professor at Arizona State University from 2013 to 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe ECE professor, who specializes in semiconductor memory devices and circuits, was selected for his exceptional record of scholarship and service to the Institute.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The ECE professor, who specializes in semiconductor memory devices and circuits, was selected for his exceptional record of scholarship and service to the Institute."}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2024-08-01 20:21:59","changed_gmt":"2024-08-02 15:36:37","author":"zwiniecki3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674479":{"id":"674479","type":"image","title":"Shimeng Deans Professor.jpg","body":null,"created":"1722543739","gmt_created":"2024-08-01 20:22:19","changed":"1722543739","gmt_changed":"2024-08-01 20:22:19","alt":"Shimeng Yu","file":{"fid":"258014","name":"Shimeng Deans Professor.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/01\/Shimeng%20Deans%20Professor.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/01\/Shimeng%20Deans%20Professor.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1085407,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/08\/01\/Shimeng%20Deans%20Professor.jpg?itok=9B7s_eXz"}}},"media_ids":["674479"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"32101","name":"Dean\u0027s Professor of the College of Engineering"},{"id":"167609","name":"semiconductor"},{"id":"170440","name":"3D Integrated Systems"},{"id":"182048","name":"Laboratory for Emerging Devices and Circuits"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EZachary Winiecki\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["zwiniecki3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}