Between 2011 and 2014, she built and led the Intel Science & Technology Center on Embedded Computing that sponsored more than sixty faculty and students from Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Penn State, UC Berkeley, UIUC, UPenn, and University of Washington for research in perception, machine learning, robotics, and embedded architecture. Previously she held research lead positions at Intel Labs, HP Labs, and SRI Sarnoff. Mei’s work in computer vision and biomedical imaging were nominated finalists for 6 Best Paper Awards and won 3. While at HP Labs, she successfully transferred her research in computational photography to 5 hardware and software products. She earned a Ph.D. in Robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and a M.S. and B.S. from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.