 2015/09-2020/09，PHD, University of California Santa Barbara ：ECE
 2015/09-2018/06，MS，University of California Santa Barbara ：ECE
 2011/09-2015/06，BS， Zhejiang University：ECE

Short Bio: Dr. Leilai Shao is an Assistant Professor and Ph.D. Advisor at SJTU, ME Department. From 2011-2015, Leilai obtained bachelor's degree from ZJU; he obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degree from UC, Santa Barbara at 2018 and 2020 correspondingly. During 2020-2021, he joined Facebook as a data scientist and, after 2021, he joined SJTU as a full time assistant professor. During his Ph.D. studies, he collaborated closely with HP Labs, Facebook and Tencent，and his research focuses on VLSI design for emerging devices，flexible electronics，EDA and ML. He has published >20 papers in premiums conferences and journals, including multiple Invited Papers, 8 first/co-first papers, including Nature Communications, IEEE/ACM Design&Test, IEEE/ACM DAC, IEEE DATE, IEEE ASP-DAC. Also, he received Best Paper Award Nominations at IEEE DATE 2018, which is one of the top tier EDA conferences.

 10/2020-07/2021 : Data Scientist, Facebook. Inc.
 05/2020-07/2020 : Data Scientist Intern, Tencent, USA.
 04/2020-06/2020 : Research Intern, HP. Labs.
 06/2019-09/2019 : Data Scientist Intern, Facebook. Inc.
 06/2018-12/2018 : Research Intern, HP. Labs
 06/2017-09/2017 : Research Intern, HP. Labs
 07/2014-09/2014 : Student Research Intern, Harvard University

1. VLSI design of emerging technologies; 2. Flexible hybrid electronics with focus on data acquisition; 3. Machine learning for EDA; 4. HW/SW Co-design for emerging technologies;

Journal
-2021 Bonnassieux, Yvan, et al. "The 2021 flexible and printed electronics roadmap." Flexible and Printed Electronics 6.2 (2021): 023001.
-2020 Tsung‐Ching Huang, Ting Lei, Leilai Shao, Sridhar Sivapurapu, Madhavan Swaminathan, Zhenan Bao, Kwang‐Ting Cheng, Raymond Beausoleil., “Process design kit and design automation for flexible hybrid electronics” in Journal of the Society for Information Display.
-2019 Lei, T., Shao, L. (Co-first), Zheng, Y., Pitner, G., Fang, G., Zhu, C., Li, S., Huang, Beausoleil, R., Wong, H. - S., Huang, T. - C., Cheng, K. - T., and Bao, Z. “Low-voltage High- performance Flexible Digital and Analog Circuits based on Ultrahigh-purity Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes”, in Nature Communication.
-2019 Shao, L., Huang, T. - C., Lei, T., Chu, T.-Y., Bao, Z., Beausoleil, R., Wang, M. and Cheng, K. - T., “Compact Modeling of Thin Film Transistors for Flexible Hybrid IoT Design”, in IEEE Transaction of Design & Test.
-2017 Ting Lei, Ming Guan, Jia Liu, Hung-Cheng Lin, Raphael Pfattner, Leo Shaw, Allister F McGuire, Tsung-Ching Huang, Leilai Shao, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Jeffrey B-H Tok, Zhenan Bao., “Biocompatible and totally disintegrable semiconducting polymer for ultrathin and ultralightweight transient electronics” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Conference
-2021 Shao, L. and Cheng, K. - T., “High-fidelity and Large-area Flexible Hybrid Sensing System”, in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems FLEPS.
-2020 Shao, L., Lei, T., Huang, T. - C., Bao, Z., and Cheng, K. - T., “Robust Design of Large Area Flexible Electronics via Compressed Sensing”, in 57th Design Automation Conference (DAC).
-2019 Shao, L., Li, S., Lei, T., Huang, T. - C., Beausoleil, R., Bao, Z., and Cheng, K. - T., “Ultra-thin Skin Electronics for High Quality and Continuous Skin-Sensor-Silicon Interfacing”, in 56th Design Automation Conference.
-2018 Shao, L., Lei, T., Huang, T. - C., Beausoleil, R., Bao, Z., and Cheng, K. - T., “Compact Modeling of Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Transistors for Flexible Circuit Design”, Best Paper Awards Nomination, in Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Dresden, Germany.
-2018 Shao, L., Lei, T., Huang, T. - C., Beausoleil, R., Bao, Z., and Cheng, K. - T., “Process Design Kit for Flexible Hybrid Electronics”, (Invited paper) in in 23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC).
2017 Huang, T. - C., Shao, L., Lei, T., Beausoleil, R. G., Bao, Z., and Cheng, K. - T. Tim, “Robust Design and Design Automation for Flexible Hybrid Electronics”, in International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).

2020 Graduate Dissertation Fellowship
2018 IEEE DATE Best Paper Award Nominations
2017 ChengMicro Fellowship
2017 Graduate Student NRST Fellowship