Haitong Li

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2022, where I was advised by Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong. I was a visiting researcher with Silicon Research Group at Meta (formerly Facebook) Reality Labs.

I lead the NanoX Lab @ Purdue. My research interests are in the new memory device technologies, circuit designs, and 3D integration for energy-efficient AI and unconventional computing. To date, I have published over 60 papers broadly across the technology stack (IEDM, VLSI, ISSCC, JSSC, DAC, ISCA, Nature Electronics) with over 4100 citations and an h-index of 27. My work was featured as part of the “New Compute Trajectories for Energy-Efficient Computing” in “The Decadal Plan for Semiconductors” by SRC. I have served as a committee member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) VLSI Technology and Circuits Committee, as a TPC member of DAC, VLSI-TSA, DATE, ICCAD, and as a Track Chair of GLSVLSI. My work has been recognized through an NSF CAREER Award in 2026, Purdue’s Seed for Success Acorn Award in 2025, Roger A. Haken Best Paper Award at IEDM 2024, and IEEE EDS PhD Student Fellowship in 2019. I was an invited participant in the 2025 Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium co-organized by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Outside of work, I enjoy exploring new ideas, places and life projects with my wife Dr. Yidi Liu, who is an American Board of Orthodontics (ABO) certified Orthodontist serving the Greater Lafayette area.

Openings in NanoX Lab @ Purdue ECE:
I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D. and M.S. students, postdoctoral scholars, and undergraduate researchers to join my NanoX Lab at Purdue ECE.

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