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Professor Wei Lu is the James R. Mellor Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. His research interests include new memory technologies, particularly resistive random-access memory (RRAM) and memristors, as well as memory-centric computing architectures, in-memory computing, and neuromorphic computing systems. He obtained his B.S. degree in 1996 from Tsinghua University and his Ph.D. in 2003 from Rice University. Following a postdoctoral research fellow position at Harvard University from 2003 to 2005, he joined Michigan's faculty in 2005. Throughout his career, he has published over 200 journal and conference papers and has been cited approximately 47,000 times, achieving an h-index of 93. He is an IEEE Fellow and has received several notable awards, including the NSF CAREER Award and the EECS Outstanding Achievement Award. Professor Lu is a founding Editor-in-Chief of npj Unconventional Computing and co-founded two semiconductor companies focused on advancing non-volatile memories and AI computing chips.
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, leading research on new memory technologies and their applications.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science