Leslie Hwang is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. She joined ASU after working at Synopsys as a senior research and development engineer, where she worked on the machine learning team for the company’s IC Validator, which verifies correctness and manufacturability of semiconductor chip designs. Hwang’s awards include an Intel computer engineering fellowship and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Harold L. Olesen Undergraduate Teaching Award. Her expertise is in applied machine learning for physical design in electronics and advanced semiconductor packaging.