Faculty

Weiwen Jiang

Dr. Weiwen Jiang joined the ECE department at George Mason University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2021. He was a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Notre Dame. He received the Ph.D. degree from Chongqing University in 2019. From 2017 to 2019, he was a research scholar at the University of Pittsburgh. His research works have won Best Paper Awards in IEEE TCAD’21, ICCD’17, and NVMSA’15. He is the receipt of four Best Paper Nominations in ASP-DAC’16, DAC’19, CODES+ISSS’19, ASP-DAC’20, and the Top Winning Awards at IEEE Services Hackathon. [Details]

Lei Yang

Dr. Lei Yang joined the IST department at George Mason University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2022. She was an Assistant Professor at University of New Mexico, and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Notre Dame. She received her Ph.D. degree and B.E. degree in 2019 and 2013, respectively, from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China. She was a research scholar at the University of California, Irvine from 2017 to 2019, and a research scholar at the University of Pittsburgh in 2019.

Current

Postdoc:

  • Yuhong Song Research Scholar. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Ph.D. East China Normal University (Started from Fall 2024)

Ph.D. Students:

  • Junhuan Yang B.S. & M.S. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Started from Fall 2021)
  • Jinyang Li B.S. & M.S. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Started from Fall 2022)
  • Yipei Liu B.S. Chongqing University, M.S. Univeristy of Hong Kong (Started from Spring 2024 with Presidential Scholarship)
  • Yuchen Yuan B.S. Hangzhou Dianzi University & Nanjing University of IST (Started from Spring 2025)
  • Hanhan Wu B.S. Zhejiang University (Started from Spring 2025)

Alumini

Ph.D.

  • Yi Sheng (Ph.D. 2025, first job: Assistant Professor at University of South Florida)
  • Zhepeng Wang (Ph.D. 2025, first job: Applied Scientist at Amazon)

Master

Research Experiences for Undergraduates

Visitors

  • Zhiding Liang PhD at the University of Notre Dame (Fall 2021)
  • Sumanth Kalluru Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (Summer 2022, sponsored by QSEC)
  • Karthik Bhargav Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (Fall 2022)