Shimeng Yu received his B.S. degree in microelectronics from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2009, and his M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2011, and 2013, respectively. He did summer internships in IMEC, Belgium, in 2011, and IBM TJ Watson Research Center in 2012. He is currently an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ U.S.

His research interests are emerging nano-devices and circuits with focus on the resistive switching memories, and new computing paradigms with focus on the neuro-inspired computing. He has published over 40 journal papers and over 80 conference papers with citations of 2500 and H-index 25 by 2015.

He was awarded the Stanford Graduate Fellowship from 2009-2012, the IEEE Electron Devices Society Masters Student Fellowship in 2010, the IEEE Electron Devices Society Ph.D. Student Fellowship in 2012, the DoD DTRA Young Investigator Award in 2015, and the NSF CAREER Award in 2016. He has been serving on the Technical Committee of Nanoelectronics and Gigascale Systems, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society since 2014.