Official Job Title
Professor
Endowed Chair and Professorships Titles
Dean's Professorship
Telephone
Office Building
MiRC
Office Room Number
116
Biography

Shimeng Yu is a full professor of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he holds the Dean’s Professorship. He 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. From 2013 to 2018, he was an assistant professor at Arizona State University. He is elevated for the IEEE Fellow for contributions to non-volatile memories and in-memory computing.

Prof. Yu’s general research interests are semiconductor devices and integrated circuits for energy-efficient computing systems. His expertise is on the emerging non-volatile memories for AI hardware and 3D integration. Prof. Yu’s 400+ journal/conference publications received more than 30,000 citations (Google Scholar) with H-index 82. He is the theme lead of two SRC/DARPA JUMP 2.0 centers on intelligent memory/storage and heterogeneous/monolithic 3D integration.

Prof. Yu serves in flagship conferences in the field as technical program committee, including IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits, etc. He also serves an editor for IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL), and associate editor-in-chief for IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS).

Research
  • Advanced Volatile and Non-volatile Memories
  • VLSI Design and Chip Tape-out
  • System/Design-Technology Co-optimization
  • Monolithic and Heterogeneous 3D Integration
  • AI Hardware and Neuro-inspired Computing
Distinctions & Awards
  • IEEE Fellow 2024
  • Intel Outstanding Researcher Award 2023
  • Georgia Tech Roger P. Webb ECE Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Award 2022
  • ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award 2020
  • Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Inaugural Young Faculty Award 2019
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) Outstanding New Faculty Award 2018
  • IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Early Career Award 2017
  • NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award 2016
Publications

S. Yu, Y.-C. Luo, T.-H. Kim, O. Phadke, “Non-volatile capacitive synapse: Device candidates for charge domain compute-in-memory,” IEEE Electron Devices Magazine, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 23-32, 2023, invited review.
S. Yu, Semiconductor Memory Devices and Circuits, Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2022.
S. Yu, H. Jiang, S. Huang, X. Peng, A. Lu, “Compute-in-memory chips for deep learning: recent trends and prospects”, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 31-56, 2021, invited review.
S. Yu, “Neuro-inspired computing with emerging non-volatile memory,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 106, no. 2, pp. 260-285, 2018, invited review. 
S. Yu, P.-Y. Chen, “Emerging memory technologies: recent trends and prospects,” IEEE Solid State Circuits Magazine, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 43-56, 2016, invited review.

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