Hai (Helen) Li is a Chinese-American electrical and computer engineer known for her research on neuromorphic engineering, the development of computation systems based on physical artificial neurons, and on deep learning, techniques for using deep neural networks in machine learning.
[1][2] She is Clare Boothe Luce Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Duke University.
[3] She worked in industry at Qualcomm, Intel, and Seagate Technology on computer memory technology including static random-access memory, memristors, and spintronicss, before returning to academia in 2009 with a position at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, then known as the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
[4] Li was named an IEEE Fellow in 2018, "for contributions to neuromorphic computing systems".
[6] She was elected as a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to neuromorphic computing and deep-learning acceleration".