Former VAST member Prof. Lei He elected to IEEE Fellow for Contribution to Integrated Circuits and Smart Energy Systems

UCLA VAST Lab would like to congratulate its former member Prof. Lei He (advised by Prof. Jason Cong) who is elected to IEEE Fellow for contribution to integrated circuits and smart energy systems.  Lei got PhD in 1999 and has been a professor with UCLA Electric Engineering since 2002.  His current research interests include EDA and IP for chiplets and FPGAs, chips and algorithms for AI, health care and sustainability.  He has graduated about 30 PhD students with over 1/3 of them teaching at research universities.  He is an entrepreneur and angel investor on the side and founded or co-founded about 10 VC-funded companies, many with his former students. Congratulations, Lei!  We are very proud of you.