Yih-Lang Li received the B.S. degree in nuclear engineering and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science majoring in designing and implementing a highly parallel cellular automata machine for fault simulation from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, where he is currently an Professor. Prior to joining the faculty of NCTU, he was a Software Engineer and an Associate Manager with Springsoft Corporation, where he set up and led the custom-based routing team. His research interests include physical synthesis, parallel architecture, physical design automation with machine learning, and VLSI testing. Dr. Li joined the technical committee of the first CAD contest in Taiwan and had served as the committee member for ten years. He served as the Contest Chair of the first CAD contest at ICCAD in 2012. He has served as the Technical Committee Member of International Olympiad in Informatics in Taiwan, ASP-DAC, ICCAD, and DAC. Dr. Li serves as an independent director and compensation committee member at AMICCOM and as the chief scientist at Pulsaris.ai.