Faculty
Yi Sheng
Assistant Professor
ENB 0342D | (571) 587-2623
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Biography
Yi Sheng is an assistant professor in the USF Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing. She joined the college in 2025 and brings expertise in electrical design automation, embedded systems, and real-time applications especially in medical domain. Sheng teaches courses in computer architecture and embedded systems and is developing hands-on 羞羞视频ing experiences that help students understand the interaction between hardware and software in performance-critical environments.
Research Interests
Sheng鈥檚 work is centered on applying AI to medical technology, specifically developing energy-efficient and fair AI systems for medical applications on edge devices. More specifically, her work is at the intersection of electronic design automation, medical image computing, and AI fairness, with a focus on developing energy-efficient, fair, and practical AI systems for medical applications to the edge devices. Much of this work explores how to deploy artificial intelligence models efficiently on resource-constrained platforms, leveraging heterogeneous computing and reconfigurable hardware such as field-programmable gate arrays to meet the needs of time-sensitive applications.
Honors and Awards
Sheng has published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences on embedded systems and real-time computing. She has been recognized for research excellence with the ASP-DAC Research Award and received the 鈥淏est Poster鈥� award at the Student Research Forum at ASP-DAC.
Education
Sheng鈥檚 educational journey crosses three continents. She earned a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Her master鈥檚 degree from Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain and undergraduate work at Jilin University in Jilin, China.