Regents’ Professor Jennifer Hasler and Assistant Professor Shaolan Li have been appointed to Texas Instruments (TI) Termed Professorships in Analog and Mixed-Signal Design. 

The positions will support their research and projects for the next five years in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). 

Hasler founded the Integrated Computational Electronics Lab at Tech, where she researches signal processing, analog and digital integrated circuits and systems design, computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamics, and CMOS device physics. 

She’s developed a number of technologies throughout her career, including floating-gate circuits on standard silicon, the original neural crossbar array, and compute in memory, which is an active field of research today. 

Her research in large-scale field programmable analog arrays (FPAA) led to some of the first System-on-Chip FPAAs and FPAA synthesis tools. 

Hasler has also worked on a transistor channel model, using subthreshold transistors to realistically model biological channels, neurons, synapses, and dendrites. 

Before coming to Georgia Tech in 1997, she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Arizona State University. She earned her Ph.D. in computation and neural systems from the California Institute of Technology. 

Li came to Georgia Tech in 2019, where he now directs the Georgia Tech Analog Mixed Signal Microsystem and Applications (GAMMA) Research Group. His research interests include analog, mixed-signal, and radio frequency integrated circuits. His expertise is in high-performance data converters, ultra-low-power and low-cost sensor interfaces, integrated medical imaging systems, and design automation. 

His research has earned several awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, National Institutes of Health Trailblazer Award, and IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society Predoctoral Achievement Award. 

Li received bachelor’s from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 

The Texas Instruments professorships are part of an ongoing collaboration between ECE and TI, a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, and sells analog and embedded processing chips. 

The two launched a strategic partnership in Fall 2024 aimed at providing educational opportunities and access to industry-grade analog chip design, fabrication, and testing processes.