Yaolong and Xiaohan’s paper titled “A 28-GHz Hybrid Beamforming Transmitter with Spatial Notch Steering Enabling Concurrent Dual Data Streams for 5G MIMO Applications” is accepted to JSSC. This paper presents a new spatial notch steering scheme with low hardware and computational costs, aiming to suppress spatial interference for multi-user MIMO. Congratulations Yaolong and Xiaohan!
Apr. 2024
Congratulations to Yingying for winning the Nettie S. Autrey Fellowship (sole recipient from the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Engineering)! Also congratulations to Bill for receiving the James S. Waters Creativity Award!
Mar. 2024
Yingying is awarded the 2024 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Pre-Doctoral Grant. This is Yingying’s third IEEE society graduate fellowship award. Congratulations Yingying!
Feb. 2024
Yaolong’s paper titled “Automated mmWave Power Amplifier Design Flow and a 28-GHz Design Example in 45-nm CMOS SOI” is accepted to IMS 2024. Congratulations Yaolong!
Jan. 2024
Bill and Qiang’s paper titled “Lightweight Machine Learning and Embedded Security Engine for Physical-Layer Identification of Wireless IoT Nodes” is accepted to 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). In Collaboration with Prof. Kaiyuan Yang’s group, this paper builds upon our recent physical-layer security work of using PUF-controlled spectral regrowth as an RF fingerprint. We further developed lightweight ML-based feature extraction to achieve reliable identification when varying the distance between TX and RX. This also marks the second paper in our group that is first-authored by an undergraduate student. Congratulations Bill and Qiang!
Dec. 2023
Yaolong received the ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award, and Xiaohan received the SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award. Congratulations Yaolong and Xiaohan!
Nov. 2023
Yingying is selected as one of the 2024 SSCS Rising Stars. Congratulations Yingying!
Oct. 2023
Three papers are accepted to ISSCC 2024, including a mmWave four-way Doherty PA, a magnetic neural stimulator, and an ultrasonic transceiver. Congratulations to our Team!
Aug. 2023
Gerald’s paper titled “A Complementary Pseudo-Resistor with Leakage Current Self-Compensation for Biopotential Amplifiers” is accepted to BioCAS 2023. We will present a simple yet effective pseudo-resistor topology for neural recording amplifiers. Congratulations Gerald and Yingying!
Aug. 2023
Xiaohan’s paper titled “A Millimeter-Wave Watt-Level Doherty Power Amplifier in Silicon” is accepted to T-MTT. This is a journal extension of Xiaohan’s 2023 CICC paper. It presents a multifunctional PA network based on an extended rat-race coupler, enabling parallel Doherty load modulation and series power combining simultaneously. Congratulations Xiaohan!
Jul. 2023
Qiang’s paper titled “Physical-Layer Identification of Wireless IoT Nodes Through PUF-Controlled Transmitter Spectral Regrowth” is accepted to T-MTT. This is a journal extension of Qiang’s 2021 ISSCC paper. We propose a slight modification to the TX frontend, allowing for physical-layer identification (a.k.a., RF fingerprinting) with greatly improved security performance. Congratulations Qiang!
Jun. 2023
Yaolong’s paper titled “A 27.5–46.2-GHz Broadband Low Noise Amplifier With IP3 Enhancement” is accepted to MWTL. Built upon Yaolong’s prior research on extending LNA bandwidth, this paper focuses on IP3 linearity enhancement, achieving state-of-the-art LNA bandwidth, linearity, and FoM simultaneously. Congratulations Yaolong!
Apr. 2023
Dr. Chi is awarded the Rice School of Engineering Teaching + Research Excellence Award for junior faculty.
Apr. 2023
Jack’s multifeed rectenna paper is accepted to the Texas Wireless Symposium 2023! He also represented the ECE department and presented his work at the Shapiro Showcase, which features the top undergraduate researchers across all disciplines at Rice. Congratulations Jack!
Mar. 2023
Our collaborative paper with Samsung Research America titled “A 140GHz RF Beamforming Phased-Array Receiver Supporting >20dB IRR with 8GHz Channel Bandwidth at Low IF in 22nm FDSOI CMOS” is accepted to RFIC 2023. This paper is also selected as a 2023 IEEE RFIC Best Industry Paper Award Finalist. Congratulations Yaolong, Xiaohan, and our collaborative team!
Feb. 2023
Dr. Chi received the NSF CAREER award.
Jan. 2023
Jack is awarded the prestigious 2023 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Undergraduate Scholarship. Congratulations Jack!
Jan. 2023
Yaolong’s paper titled “A Systematic Approach to Designing Broadband Millimeter-Wave Cascode Common-Source with Inductive Degeneration Low Noise Amplifiers” is accepted to T-CAS I. This paper presents a systematic yet intuitive approach that can turn a conventional narrow-band mmWave LNA into a broadband implementation by only updating component values without changing the classic inductive degeneration topology. Congratulations Yaolong!
Jan. 2023
Xiaohan’s paper titled “A Millimeter-Wave Three-Way Doherty Power Amplifier for 5G NR OFDM” is accepted to JSSC (RFIC 2022 Special Issue). This paper presents the design guideline of a new three-way Doherty network to enable efficiency enhancement up to ~10dB back-off for 5G NR OFDM. Congratulations Xiaohan!
Jan. 2023
Hao’s paper titled “An 86.5-105.6GHz LO Generator with Cascaded Implicit Frequency Quintupling and Tripling Achieving -107.7dBc/Hz Phase Noise and 191.2dBc/Hz FoM at 1MHz Offset” is accepted to CICC 2023. This LO generator achieves record phase noise performance and FoM at ~100GHz. Congratulations Hao!
Jan. 2023
Xiaohan’s paper titled “A 38GHz Power-Combined Doherty PA Based on an Extended Rat-Race Coupler Achieving 27.5dBm Saturated Power and 15.0% Efficiency at 6dB Back-Off” is accepted to CICC 2023. Congratulations Xiaohan!
Dec. 2022
Xiaohan and Yingying received the 2023 ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award. Congratulations Xiaohan and Yingying!
June 2022
Xiaohan’s 38GHz three-way Doherty PA paper is selected as a 2022 IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award Finalist. Xiaohan also received the NSF Student Registration Award for IEEE RFIC. Congratulations Xiaohan!
May 2022
Gerald received the Rice IBB Travel Grant. Congratulations Gerald!
Mar. 2022
Xiaohan’s paper titled “A 38GHz Deep Back-Off Efficiency Enhancement PA with Three-Way Doherty Network Synthesis Achieving 11.3dBm Average Output Power and 14.7% Average Efficiency for 5G NR OFDM” is accepted to RFIC 2022. This design demonstrates the highest 10dB back-off efficiency among reported silicon PAs operating above 30GHz, particularly suitable for 5G NR OFDM. Congratulations Xiaohan!
Jan. 2022
Yingying received the 2022 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award. Congratulations Yingying!
Nov. 2021
Yingying’s paper titled “An Integrated Microheater Array with Closed-Loop Temperature Regulation Based on Ferromagnetic Resonance of Magnetic Nanoparticles” is accepted by IEEE T-BioCAS (ISSCC 2021 Special Issue). This is a collaborative work with Dr. Gang Bao’s group at Rice BioE. Congratulations Yingying and the team!
Nov. 2021
Yingying received the 2021 Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship. Congratulations Yingying!
June 2021
Yaolong’s broadband LNA paper is selected as a 2021 IEEE IMS Advanced Practice Paper Award Finalist. Congratulations Yaolong!
June 2021
Yingying received the IEEE RFIC’21 NSF Student Conference Registration Award. Congratulations Yingying!
May 2021
Qiang won the Student Research Competition Award (1st place) at the IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless & Microwave Circuits and Systems. Congratulations Qiang!
May 2021
Yaolong and Xiaohan’s paper received the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE CICC. Congratulations Yaolong and Xiaohan!
Feb. 2021
Yaolong’s paper titled “A 27–46-GHz Low Noise Amplifier With Dual-Resonant Input Matching and A Transformer-Based Broadband Output Network” is accepted to IMS 2021 and is selected as one of the top IMS submissions for inclusion into the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL) special issue. Congratulations Yaolong!
Jan. 2021
Yingying is awarded the prestigious 2021 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications. Congratulations Yingying!
Jan. 2021
Yaolong and Xiaohan’s paper titled “A 28GHz Hybrid-Beamforming Transmitter Array Supporting Concurrent Dual Data Steams and Spatial Notch Steering for 5G MIMO” is accepted to CICC 2021. Congratulations Yaolong and Xiaohan!
Oct. 2020
Yingying’s paper is accepted to ISSCC 2021 (Biomedical Devices, Circuits, and Systems Session). She will present an integrated thermal actuation/sensing array with a sub-millimeter spatial resolution through efficient and localized heating of magnetic nanoparticles at GHz microwave frequency. This platform would be widely applicable in non-invasive biomedical heating applications. Congratulations Yingying!
Oct. 2020
Qiang’s paper is accepted to ISSCC 2021 (Innovations in Low-power & Secure IoT Session). In collaboration with Prof. Kaiyuan Yang’s group, we explore PUF-controlled transmitter spectral regrowth as a unique radio signature for low-power physical-layer device identification, similar to how people can recognize individuals from their unique voice features. Congratulations Qiang and the team!
Oct. 2020
Our collaborative paper with the Rice NeuroEngineering Team (Drs. Lan Luan, Jacob Robinson, Behnaam Aazhang, Kaiyuan Yang, and Chong Xie) titled “Recent Advances in Electrical Neural Interface Engineering: Minimal Invasiveness, Longevity and Scalability” is accepted by Neuron! This review paper highlights latest advances in electrical neural interfaces, and our group contributed to the integrated electronics section.
Congratulations Yingying and our collaborative team!
July 2020
Katrina received the NSF Student Registration Award for IEEE RFIC/IMS 2020. Congratulations Katrina!
July 2020
Robert and Katrina received the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from the Rice Undergraduate Office of Research and Inquiry (UORI). Congratulations Robert and Katrina!
Dr. Chi is awarded the George R. Brown Teaching Grant for his undergraduate course ELEC 305 Introduction to Physical Electronics!
Jan. 2020
Xiaohan Zhang, B.S. from Tsinghua University, joins RISE Lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome aboard!
Oct. 2019
Yingying is awarded the Loewenstern Fellowship. Congratulations Yingying!
Aug. 2019
Qiang Zhou, B.S. from Peking University, joins RISE Lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome aboard!
Aug. 2019
Yingying Fan, M.S. from University of Michigan and B.E. from Southeast University, joins RISE Lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome aboard!
Apr. 2019
RISE Lab is awarded the Rice University’s InterDisciplinary Excellence Award (IDEA) fund to develop electronics-biology-machine learning hybrid systems for health care applications. We will collaborate with Dr. Gang Bao in BioE and Dr. Richard Baraniuk in ECE.
Apr. 2019
Dr. Taiyun Chi visited TAMU ECE and gave an invited talk on Antenna-Electronics Co-Design. Thank you Dr. Sebastian Hoyos for the invitation.
Mar. 2019
Dr. Chi founded the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Houston Chapter and serves as the Chapter Chair. We will organize a series of Distinguished Lectures and social events. Please stay tuned!
Feb. 2019
Yaolong Hu joins RISE Lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome aboard!
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