Dr. Lei He (IEEE M'99-SM'08) is an associate professor at electrical 
engineering department, UCLA, and was a faculty member at University 
of Wisconsin, Madison between 1999 and 2001. He also held visiting 
or consulting positions with Intel, Hewlett-Package, Cadence, Synopsys, 
Rio Design Automation, and Apache Design Solutions.

His research interests include VLSI circuits and systems, and electronic design
automation. He has published one book and over 170 technical papers and 
has been a technical program committee member for a number of conferences 
including Design Automation Conference, International Conference on 
Computer-Aided Design, International Symposium on Low Power Electronics 
and Design, and International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Array.

Dr. He obtained Ph.D. degree in computer science from UCLA in 
1999. He received National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2000, 
UCLA Chancellor's faculty career development award in 2003, 
IBM Faculty Award in 2003, Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching
award in 2005, best paper award at the 2006 International Symposium 
on Physical Design, and multiple best paper nominations at Design Automation
Conference and International Conference on Computer-Aided Design.