Lan Wei

Dr. Lan Wei is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. She holds a B.S. in Microelectronics and Economics from Peking University (2005), and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (2007, 2010). Before joining Waterloo in 2014, Dr. Wei worked at Altera Corporation (now part of Intel) in California, where she was involved in power management and FPGA product development. She also completed postdoctoral work at MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories.

Dr. Wei’s research focuses on device-circuit interactive design, cryogenic CMOS electronics for quantum computing, and error-resilient computation. Her work explores the use of emerging technologies, including GaN, RRAM, and low-dimensional materials, for integrated nanoelectronic systems. She co-developed the MIT Virtual Source GaN HEMT compact model, which is now an industry standard.

She has contributed to numerous academic conferences such as IEDM, ICCAD, and VLSI-TSA, and has been part of the Process Integration, Devices, and Structures Chapter of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. Her research group at Waterloo is responsible for the MIT Virtual Source Gallium-Nitride Field Effect Transistor (MVSG) compact model, which is widely used globally.

Dr. Wei has received the Ontario Early Researcher Award (2019) and the UWaterloo President’s Excellence Award in Research (2020). She teaches various courses in electrical and computer engineering, including topics in circuits, instrumentation, and semiconductor devices.

Her professional journey also includes stints at several prestigious institutions, such as MIT, Grenoble INP, and internships at IBM, Intel, and STMicroelectronics. Dr. Wei continues to lead advancements in quantum computing and nanoelectronics, contributing significantly to the fields of semiconductor devices and integrated circuits.