Lisa Wills

Lisa Wills is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Joint) at Duke University. She is affiliated with the Department of Computer Science. Her research focuses on leveraging deep learning to expedite hardware architecture and design processes, including the development of a lightweight Transformer model called CircuitFormer for predicting synthesis results. She also explores natural language processing for drug discovery and genomic data analytics through frameworks like Genesis. Her work aims to make hardware design as efficient as software development.