Belle W. Y. Wei

Dr. Belle Y.W. Wei, born in Taiwan in 1955, immigrated to San Francisco with her parents after she graduated from high school. Her father, a retired general, and her mother found work in a restaurant. Wei waited tables to help the family. Dr. Wei received BA in biophysics, University of California-Berkeley (1977), MS in applied physics, Harvard University (1980), and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science specializing in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration), University of California-Berkeley (1987). She briefly worked at Ford Aerospace

Bellie Wei

and then joined the faculty of San Jose State University as assistant electrical engineering professor in 1987 and became department's chairwoman in 1998. She worked as an interim dean and in 2003 assumed the deanship Dr. Wei's interest is in digital/analog electronics, digital design, VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language), integrated circuit design, computer architecture, and VLSI systems.

Dr. Wei also served as a visiting associate professor to the Computer Systems Laboratory in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University, where she conducted research in developing low-power wireless processors for video decompression and graphics display, and developed error-resilient video decompression algorithms. She did post-graduate research (NSF grant DMC 8406408) at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California at Berkeley, where she developed and verified a systolic VLSI design for a Move-to-Front data compression scheme; developed VLSI theories and design for high performance computer arithmetic circuits; implemented the design algorithm in Programming Language C under UNIX BSD 4.3; and automated the design process by interfacing the implemented program with MAGIC, a VLSI CAD package. She was also an instructor for the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California at Berkeley where she taught a basic electronic course and assisted students in their laboratory studies. She served as a Network Engineer for the Dept. of Network Control of Ford Aerospace and Communication Corporation, where she developed and designed analytical computer performance models for NATO SATCOM software system; formulated a computer simulation model for anti-jamming communication system design; and studied and implemented a computer simulation program of Ground Mobil Force Control processes. She has also done consulting for AVOCET Co. and LSI Logic.

Dr. Wei has been the ABET (Accreditation board of Engineering and Technology) program evaluator for Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering programs, a referee for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, referee for IEEE Transactions on Computers, referee for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, referee for NSF grant proposals. She was a program committee member for the 1994, 1995 ICCD (International Conference on Computer Design), 1994 COMPSAC (International Computer Software and Applications Conference), 1995 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, session chair for 1995 International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications, session chair for 12th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, guest co-editor for special issues of on computer arithmetic (Vol. 3, 1991; Vol. 2, 1994; Vol. 4, 1996), and a NSF panelist for undergraduate curriculum development in mathematics and engineering.

Dr. Wei and her husband have a 23-year-old-daughter who is in the Peace Corps.

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