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Leandra Vicci is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her Bachelor's degree in Physics at Antioch College in 1964 and has since been a practicing engineer in both industry and academe. She joined the UNC-Chapel Hill computer science faculty in 1981 to found and direct the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory, which provides the infrastructure to support technical research across a broad spectrum of technologies. Her research interests include innovative applications of hardware technologies to information processing problems, especially exploiting behavioral properties of devices and materials not necessarily within digital or electronic domains. She is the inventor of Salphasic Clock distribution, a patented method for circumventing the limitations of the speed of light on the distribution of clock signals to globally synchronous systems. In 1996, Ms. Vicci received both the UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor's Award, and the North Carolina Governor's Award for innovation. She is a member of ACM and IEEE.