Yang(Cindy) Yi's Service

Editorial Positions

• Editorial Board Member for Applied Intelligence topic, within IntechOpen Series “Artificial Intelligence”, ISSN: 2633-1403, 2020-Present.
• Topic Editor, Editorial Board of Electronics Journal, ISSN: 2079-9292, 2019-Present.
• Associate Editor, Elsevier Nano Communication Networks Journal, ISSN: 1878-7789, 2016-2022.
• Associate Editor, Cyber Journal of Selected Areas in Microelectronics (JSAM), ISSN: 1925-2676, 2020-Present.
• Editorial Board Member of Neuromorphic Engineering, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020-Present.
• Review Editor, Frontiers in Communications and Networks Journal, "Non-Conventional Communications and Networking", 2020-Present.
• Editorial Board Member, European Journal of Advances in Engineering and Technology (EJAET), ISSN 2506-8016, 2015-2021.
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Electronics and sensors, IGRPS, ISSN 1687-7268 2018.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computational and Neural Engineering (IJCNE), ISSN 2572-7389, 2014-2018.
• Guest Editor, Advances in Electrical Engineering, Computing, and Symmetry Special Issue in in Engineering Science and Symmetry/Asymmetry, ISSN 2073-8994, 2022-2023.
• Guest Editor, Neuro-inspired Technologies and Systems for Next-generation Machine Intelligence, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, ISSN 1662-5188, 2022-2023.
• Guest Editor, Electro-optical Neural Networks and Their Applications, Frontiers in Communications and Networks, ISSN 2673-530X, 2022.
• Guest Editor, Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering Issue in IOPSCIENCE, 2020-2021.
• Guest Editor, Elsevier Journal "Computer & Education", Special Issue on Integrating Theory and Infrastructure into Online STEM Education, 2020-2021.
• Guest Editor, IEEE Access, Protocols for Nano Communication Networks Special Issue, 2018.
• Guest Editor, IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, Special Issue on "Application of Neuromorphic Computing on Cyber Physical Systems", 2016-2017.
• Guest Editor, Elsevier Nano Communication Networks, Special Issue on " Neuromorphic and Cognitive Computing and Communication in Hardware", 2016-2017.

Technical Program Committee

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021-Present,
• IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2018-2021.
• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2017-2020.
• IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2013-Present.
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2015-Present.
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2013-Present.
• IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking, and Communications (ICNC), 2014- Present.
• IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2020-Present.
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 2017-present.
• IEEE Global Communications Conference: Workshops: International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for 5G and Beyond
Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2017-present. • ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), 2018-Present.
• IEEE International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM), 2017-Present.
• IEEE International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE), 2014-Present.
• International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics (WCI), 2014-Present.
• IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), 2013-Present.
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communication Software, Services and Multimedia Applications
(CSSMA) Symposium, 2020. • IEEE International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS) 2019, 2020.
• IEEE/ACM DAC Late Breaking Results, 2019, 2020.
• International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) Wireless Networking Symposium, 2020.
• IEEE Global Communications Conference: Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Apps (Globecom CSSMA), 2019.
• IEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS: Integrating Edge Computing, Caching, and Offloading in Next Generation Networks (IECCO), 2019.
• International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security (ACOSIS), 2019.
• IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2019, 2020.
• IEEE 5G World Forum (5GWF), 2018, 2019.
• International Conference On Internet of Things and Intelligence Systems (IOTAIS), 2018.
• International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technology (I4CT), 2018.
• International Conference on Signals and Systems (ICSigSys), 2018-Present.
• International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (EEI), 2018.
• International Conference on Control, Electronics, Renewable Energy, and Communications (ICCEREC), 2018.
• IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), subcommittee for Active Link, Optics & 5G, 2017.
• IEEE International 3D Systems Integration Conference (3DIC), 2014-Present.
• Ph.D. Forum in IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2017-Present.
• IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS): IECCO: Integrating Edge Computing, Caching,
and Offloading in Next Generation Networks, 2017.
• ACM Student Research Competition, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Compute Aided Design (ICCAD), 2015-2020.
• China Semiconductor Technology International Conference (CSTIC), 2017.
• IEEE Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ASQED), 2014, 2015.
• International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), 2014.
• ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom), 2021

Conference Organizer, Chair/Co-Chair

• Publicity Chair, IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference, 2016.
• TPC Track Chair, Cognitive Computing in Hardware (CCH), IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2016-2017.
• Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA), Special Issue on Neuromorphic Computing and Emerging Technologies, 2015.

Conference Session Chair

• Session Chair, Embedded Systems, IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2016.
• Session Chair, Neuromorphic Computational Models, IEEE conference on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA), 2015.
• Session Co-Chair, IEEE Intl. Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) Neuromorphic System, 2017.

Professional Service

• Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF) Review Panel
    - ENG/ECCS; 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017.
    - CISE/CCF, 2015, 2016.
    - CISE/CNS, 2016.
    - SBIR/STTR Phase I, Phase II, 2012, 2013, 2014.
• Panelist, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR), 2015, 2016. • Board of Directors, Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA (CIE-USA)/DFW Chapter, 2011 - 2013.
• Vice President, Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA (CIE-USA)/DFW Chapter, 2009 – 2011.

Technical Reference

• IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, 2016.
• IEEE Trans. on Computers, 2016.
• IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems (TCAS), 2013-2016.
• IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), 2009-2016.
• IEEE Trans. on VLSI system (TVLSI), 2014-2016.
• IEEE Trans. on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), 2015, 2016.
• IEEE Trans. on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (TMSCS), 2016.
• IEEE Trans. on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (CPMT), 2015.
• ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), 2014-2016.
• An International Journal on Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), 2015.
• ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2016.
• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2013, 2015.
• ACM Trans. on Design Automation of Electronic Systems journal (TODAES), 2014.
• Integration, the VLSI Journal (Elsevier), 2016.
• Microelectronics Journal (Elsevier), 2014.
• Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (JCSC), 2013-2015.
• IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications (TWC), 2013-2015.
• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2014, 2016.

Extracurricular Positions

• University Committee Member:
    - Member, ECE Hardware/Software Security Faculty Search Committee, 2017 - Present.
    - Member, EECS Undergraduate Study Committee, 2016-2017.
    - Member, EECS Equipment Committee, 2016-2017.
    - Member, EECS Scholarship Committee, 2016-2017.
    - Member, EECS Power Systems Engineering Faculty Search Committee, 2015 - 2016.
    - Member, EECS Computer Architecture Faculty Search Committee, 2014 - 2015.
    - Member, Electrical and Computer Engineering Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program Committee, 2013.
    - Member, Nomination Committee for Trustees and N. T. Veatch Award, 2013.
    - Member, Undergraduate Students Department Promotion Committee (DPC), 2013.
• Outreach Activities:
    - Speaker, Design Automation Summer School (DASS), A. Richard Newton Young Fellowship Program at ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2016.
    - Committee Member, National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing Award 2014, 2015.
    - Committee Member, National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing Publicity, 2015.
    - Co-Chair, Poster and Graduate Papers Selection and Award Committee, Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas Women in Computing (MINK-WIC) 2013.
    - Conference Session Chair and Coordinator, Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas Women in Computing (MINK-WIC) 2013.
    - University Coordinator, Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas Women in Computing (MINK-WIC) 2013.
    - Faculty Representative, National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Missouri & Kansas Affiliate Aspirations in Computing Award, 2013.

Invited Talks

• “Building Brain-Like Computers – Small, Cool, and Robust: A Novel Paradigm for Analog Neuron Circuit Design.” Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Sept. 2016.
• “Computationally Efficient Temporal Neural Coding for Neuromorphic Computing,” Computing & Communications Division, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, Aug. 2016.
• “Modeling and Optimization of TSV for Crosstalk Mitigation in 3D Neuromorphic System,” IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Ottawa, ON Canada, Jul. 2016.
• “Living in a 3D World: Why Not Make 3D Integrated Circuits?” Design Automation Summer School (DASS), A. Richard Newton Young Fellowship Program at ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Austin, TX, Jun. 2016.
• “Analog Neuron Design in Reservoir Computing Processors and its Application in Wireless Communications,” Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) and Cyber Technology Review Day, Utica, NY, Jun. 2016.
• “Design Challenges and Methodologies in 3D Integration for Neuromorphic Computing Systems,” IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), San Jose, CA, Mar. 2016.
• “Building Brain-like Computing Small, Cool, and Robust: Novel Paradigm of Analog Neuron Circuit Design,” KU Bio-engineering Colloquium, Lawrence, KS, Feb. 2016.
• “Building Brain-like Computing Small, Cool, and Robust: Novel Paradigm of Analog Neuron Circuit Design,” University of Norte Dame, South Bend, IN, Feb. 2016.
• “Analog Neuron Design in Reservoir Computing Systems,” Computing & Communications Division, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, Aug. 2015.
• “Neuromorphic System Design with Chaos Based Analog Neuron and Its Application in Wireless Communication,” Airborne Network Technology Review Days, Utica, NY, Jun. 2015.
• “Neuromorphic Encoding System Design with Chaos Based CMOS Analog Neuron,” IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications, Verona, NY, May 2015.
• “CMOS Neuron Design for Temporal Encoding in Neuromorphic Computing System,” High Performance Computing Branch, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, Aug. 2014.
• “3D IC Modeling and Analysis in Millimeter Wave Frequency Band,” Air Force C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence) Meeting, Utica, NY, Jul. 2014.
• “Through Silicon Via Modeling and Design for Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit,” University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, Mar. 2014.
• “Electrical Modeling and Analysis of TSVs in 3D System Integration,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Aug. 2013.
• “Low Power Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) Design through Advanced Nano-technology,” Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, Apr. 2013.
• “Interconnect Modeling in VLSI Circuits and Packages,” Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, Mar. 2010.
• “High Frequency Inductance Extraction for On-Chip Interconnects,” Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, Nov. 2009.
• “Algorithmic Techniques for Parasitic Extraction of Interconnects,” Global Foundries, Sunnyvale, CA, Oct. 2009.
• “Optimizing Differential Signaling for Reducing Crosstalk Noise,” Avago Technologies, Fort Collins, CO, Sept. 2009.
• “Development of Fast 3D Parasitic Extraction using Hierarchical Method for Integrated Circuits and Packages,” IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ASP), San Diego, CA, Jul. 2008.
• “Algorithmic Techniques for Parasitic Extraction of 3D VLSI Circuits,” Ph.D. Forum at IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Anaheim, CA, Jun. 2008.
• “Recent Development in 3D Parasitic Extraction,” IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, 2008.
• “Development of Fast 3D Parasitic Extraction using Hierarchical Method,” IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2008.
• “Modeling High Frequency Interconnects Based on Scattering Parameters,” Freescale, Austin, TX, Jan. 2008.
• “Impedance Extraction for 3D Structures with Multiple Dielectrics,” Synopsys, Mountain View, CA, Jan. 2008.
• “Compact and stable interconnect RLC model generation for VLSI circuit simulation,” IBM, Austin, TX, Aug. 2007..

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