
Jie Gu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | Principle Investigator
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Northwestern University
Short Biography
Jie Gu received the B.S degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, the M.S degree from Texas A&M University, and the Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 2008. Dr. Gu joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University from Jan. 2015. Before joining Northwestern University, Dr. Gu was a R&D researcher at Texas Instruments working on ultra-low power OMAP mobile processor and a senior staff engineer at Maxlinear working on broadband multimedia SoC chips. His research interest includes novel circuit and computing architecture for modern computing tasks e.g. AI, efficient circuits for emerging semiconductor device and human-machine interface.
Current Students

Changwoo Park
Ph.D. Student

Zhiwei Zhong
Ph.D. Student

Qiankai Cao
Ph.D. Student

William McGarry

Shiyu Guo

Xi Chen
Ph.D. Student

He Yu
Ph.D. Student

Yiqi Li
Ph.D. Student
Graduated Students
Yuhao Ju
Ph.D. Student
now with Samsung
Yijie Wei
Ph.D. Student
now with Texas Instruments
Zhengyu Chen
Ph.D. Student
now with SambaNova
Tianyu Jia
Ph.D. Student
now with Peiking University
Kofi Otseidu
M.S. Student
now with Intel
Sihua Fu
M.S. Student
now with Google
Geng Xie
M.S. Student
now with OmniVission Technologies
Huanyu Wang
M.S. Student
now with University of Florida