Welcome to the NanoX Lab, a research group led by Prof. Haitong Li in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. We are proud to be part of Semiconductors@Purdue, UPWARDS for the Future, Institute of Chips and AI, ASIP Institute, Institute for a Sustainable Future, and A3D3 Institute.
Microelectronics is the foundation of our modern digital economy. In the 21st century, hardware platforms from health-monitoring and mixed-reality wearable devices, to autonomous cars and robots, will empower ubiquitous applications with intelligence to shape our life, education, work, and entertainment. The next-generation hardware technologies must deliver unprecedented energy efficiency with growing capabilities for a sustainable future. And nanoelectronics has much to offer in this pursuit.
In the NanoX Lab, we work across the stack to realize energy-efficient electronic systems for ubiquitous machine intelligence, enabled by new nanotechnologies and their system integration. ‘X’ represents: (a) synergistic research at the intersection of devices, circuits, systems, and computational models; (b) diverse nanotechnologies to augment leading-edge silicon CMOS through integration.
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| Jul 10, 2026 | Our PROTEUS chip, published in JSSC, is featured in Purdue ECE News and Purdue Innovates. Congratulations to Luqi, Amir, and the entire team, as well as our collaborators at TSMC Corporate Research! |
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| May 13, 2026 | Prof. Li receives the 2026 NSF CAREER Award. Purdue ECE News. |
| May 1, 2026 | Our students are joining various semiconductor companies this summer for internships: Luqi at the Kilby Labs of TI, Shuting at Marvell, Zoe at TSMC, and David at SK hynix. |
| Apr 27, 2026 | Prof. Li is recognized by the College of Engineering for outstanding dedication to teaching, ranking among the college’s top instructors by student evaluation scores. Purdue Engineering News. |
| Apr 8, 2026 | Prof. Li gave several invited talks on behalf of the lab during the week at Stanford, Sandisk, Microchip, and the ISQED 2026 conference. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Amir defended his M.S. Thesis with flying colors. Congratulations! |
| Nov 19, 2025 | Our team is recognized with the 2025 Seed for Success Acorn Award by the University. |
| Aug 9, 2025 | Our paper on the 40nm CENTAUR chip led by Luqi, in collaboration with TSMC, is accepted at ASSCC 2025! CENTAUR marks the first NVM-eDRAM compute-in-memory chip demonstration in the field. |
| Jun 4, 2025 | (In Purdue ECE News) Prof. Li was honored to be nominated and selected for the 2025 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, organized by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the Engineering Academy of Japan. |
| Mar 17, 2025 | One paper led by Mufeng is accepted at IMW 2025! We designed analog multilevel eDRAM-RRAM CIM and explored BEOL oxide-semiconductor FETs for zeroth-order model fine-tuning applications. |
| Feb 26, 2025 | Our paper on 3D-CIMlet led by Shuting is accepted at DAC 2025! We developed a new chiplet co-design framework exploiting heterogeneous memory technologies for LLM inference and continual learning. |
| Jan 13, 2025 | Prof. Li is co-chairing the “Emerging Computing and Post-CMOS Technologies” Track at GLSVLSI 2025. Please submit your related research work! |
| Oct 29, 2024 | We organized a special session on “Delocalizing AI with Emerging Edge Intelligence” at ICCAD 2024. |
| Oct 2, 2024 | Prof. Li gave an invited talk on energy-efficient computational memories for neuro-symbolic AI at ESWEEK 2024. |
| Sep 16, 2024 | Awarded an NSF Future of Semiconductors (FuSe2) grant! NSF News. Purdue ECE News. University News. |
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Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Eingineering
College of Engineering, Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907