Profile

Dan Li received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in computer science and technology from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, in 2013. His doctoral work focused on low-noise circuits design techniques for high-speed optical receiver front-ends.

From 2007 to 2009 he was with Nvidia Shanghai R&D center, China, where he worked on custom RAM circuitry and power characterization. From 2011 to 2014 he was with Studio di Microelettronica, STMicroelectronics, Pavia, Italy, working on CMOS optical receiver for 100GBE optical link and silicon phonics applications. He joined Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2015, where he is currently an associate professor. His research interests include high-speed optical communication and optical sensing circuits.