Members

Leslie Hwang, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor in School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Leslie Hwang is an assistant professor in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. She joined ASU after working at Synopsys as a senior research and development engineer. Hwang’s awards include an Intel computer engineering fellowship and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Harold L. Olesen Undergraduate Teaching Award. Her expertise is in machine learning for physical design in electronics and multi-physics analysis for advanced semiconductor packaging.

Hantian Liu - Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering (2024 Fall - Present)

Hantian received his B.S. (2021) in CS from Beijing University of Technology and M.S. (2023) from Boston University. His research interests includes scientific machine learning (SciML) and he focuses on solving complex multi-physics problems with combination of physics-informed machine learning and numerical computing methods.

Nagahiro Ohashi - Ph.D. student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (2023 Spring - Present)

Nagahiro received his B.S. (2021) and M.S. (2023) in ME from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His research interest focuses on using deep learning techniques to derive temperature distributions via a network trained with experimental data. He is co-advised by Prof. Beomjin Kwon

Nuo Xu - Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering (2025 Spring - Present)

Nuo received his B.S. (2002) in CS from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and M.S. (2023) from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His research interests include computer vision, particularly in geometry detection for electronic physical design and semiconductor packaging applications.

Ryan Leigh - B.S. student in Computer Science and Physics (2024 Summer, 2025 Spring - Present)

Ryan is studying for his B.S. in CS and Physics from Arizona State University (ASU). He is a Residential Assistant and a contributor to the ASU Formula SAE team where he develops software for the electronics on the car. His research interest focuses on modeling the multi-physics performance of complex geometries using physics-informed neural networks (PINN) and plans to pursue Barrett Thesis.

Henry Lepp - B.S. student in Electrical Engineering (2025 Spring - Present)

Henry is currently pursuing his B.S. in EE and is set to graduate in 2027 from Arizona State University. He is a student in Barrett, The Honors College. His research interests involve using machine learning technology to analyze defect patterns in semiconductor wafers.