Yunsi Fei is a Chinese and American electronics engineer focused on hardware security and on the energy efficiency of embedded systems. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate dean of faculty affairs in the Northeastern University College of Engineering in Boston, Massachusetts. [1]
Fei was a student of electronic engineering at Tsinghua University, where she received a bachelor's degree in 1997 and a master's degree in 1999. She next went to Princeton University for doctoral study in electrical engineering; she completed her Ph.D. there in 2004. [1] Her doctoral dissertation, System-level energy analysis and optimization of embedded systems, was supervised by Niraj Jha. [2] [3]
She became an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut before moving to her present position at Northeastern University in 2011. [1]
Fei was named to the 2026 class of IEEE Fellows, "for contributions in side-channel analysis, protection of computing accelerators, and robust security evaluation". [4]