Mingjie Lin is a professor in the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He worked at FPGA startup Tabula Inc. as a senior engineer and as a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Since joining UCF at 2011, Lin’s esearch has focused on exploring novel ways to construct scalable, embedded computing machines with high performance and low power consumption. He is an SAIC Faculty Fellow and a recipient of the 2016 NSF CAREER award, the 2017 UCF Reach for Stars award and the 2017 UCF Teaching Incentive Program award.