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Ying-Cheng Lai

Regents Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Lai has been recognized with awards such as White House PECASE, APS fellowship and Pentagon Vannevar Bush Fellowship. He has been publishing in complex dynamical systems, classical and quantum.

Recent stories

Ying-Cheng Lai and Zheng-Meng Zhai

ASU researchers have developed a new method that trains machine learning algorithms to predict ecosystem behavior.

A portrait of ASU Regents Professor Ying-Cheng Lai superimposed on a fractal pattern representing dynamic machine learning strategies.

ASU electrical engineering researcher Ying-Cheng Lai is using psychological principles of human memory to improve machine learning strategies for dynamic data.

Underwater in a clear blue ocean with fish swimming in a coral reef.

ASU Regents Professor Ying-Cheng Lai led research to analyze how rates of change affect points at which systems suffer irreversible harm.

attendees at the Israel-U.S. Initiative on Cybersecurity Research and Development for Energy

The Israel-U.S. Initiative on Cybersecurity Research and Development for Energy, whose U.S. work is led by ASU’s Yang Weng, held its fifth workshop in Tempe.

Additional stories

AI-generated graphic of a robotic hand pointing in a virtual environment

Helping robots follow a new path

ASU Regents Professor Ying-Cheng Lai and his collaborators are using machine learning to improve robots’ movement capabilities.
row of wind turbines

Keeping the lights on

ASU electrical engineering researchers used a type of machine learning known as deep-Q learning to investigate how to enhance power grid cybersecurity.
Pollinator-Plant Tipping Points

New tipping point prediction model offers insights to diminishing bee colonies