Kai Ni
Assistant Professor
Kai Ni
Assistant Professor
Bio
Dr. Kai Ni received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China in 2011, M.S. degree of Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA in 2013, and Ph.D. degree of Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA in 2016. Since 2016, he was a postdoctoral associate at University of Notre Dame. He is currently an assistant professor in Microsystems Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology.
His research interests lie in nanoelectronic devices enabling novel computing paradigms and storage technologies. In particular, he is interested in design of nanoelectronic devices for Artificial Intelligence accelerator, targeting at not only deep learnings but life-long learning and learning to learn general Artificial Intelligence. He is also interested in exploring unconventional computing by harnessing the novel functionalities of emerging devices, for example, Ising Machine for optimization problems, dynamical systems for computational hard problems, and hardware security etc. Additionally, he is interested in exploring unconventional electronics. For example, he is actively investigating the Cryogenic CMOS for high-performance computation and control for Quantum Computing. Another area is reliable and radiation hard electronics for Space Electronics. All these research efforts manifest a new exciting hyperscaling era to come, enabled by all these functional augmentation of today’s technology!
There are currently positions available in our group. Interested and highly motivated students are encouraged to send his/her CV to Dr. Kai Ni
Currently Teaching
In the News
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March 22, 2023
RIT honors 14 researchers added to prestigious PI Millionaires group
RIT faculty members, who led research initiatives as principal investigators, were honored at a reception on March 21 to celebrate the individuals who helped the university reach record awards surpassing $92 million and place among the top private research universities in the country.
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February 24, 2023
RIT becomes partner in national semiconductor center
RIT recently became a partner in the SUPREME Center (Superior Energy-efficient Materials and Devices), a new $34 million research center based at Cornell University. The center will focus on development of energy-efficient semiconductor materials and technologies.
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February 20, 2023
Ni awarded NSF CAREER funding to develop advanced computer memory and devices
Kai Ni, assistant professor of electrical and microelectronic engineering, was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award to improve computing memory through the use of ferroelectric materials and capacity.