Yunsi Fei

Yunsi Fei is a Chinese and American electronics engineer focused on hardware security and on the energy efficiency of embedded systems. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate dean of faculty affairs in the Northeastern University College of Engineering in Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

Education and career

Fei was a student of electronic engineering at Tsinghua University, where she received a bachelor's degree in 1997 and a master's degree in 1999. She next went to Princeton University for doctoral study in electrical engineering; she completed her Ph.D. there in 2004.[1] Her doctoral dissertation, System-level energy analysis and optimization of embedded systems, was supervised by Niraj Jha.[2][3]

She became an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut before moving to her present position at Northeastern University in 2011.[1]

Recognition

Fei was named to the 2026 class of IEEE Fellows, "for contributions in side-channel analysis, protection of computing accelerators, and robust security evaluation".[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Yunsi Fei", People, Northeastern University College of Engineering, retrieved 2026-01-11
  2. ^ Fei, Yunsi (2004), System-level energy analysis and optimization of embedded systems (Ph.D. thesis), Princeton University, ProQuest 305150837
  3. ^ Yunsi Fei at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ IEEE Fellow Class of 2026, IEEE, retrieved 2026-01-11