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Taiyun Chi, Ph.D. (LinkedIn)

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Taiyun Chi joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rice University in January 2019. He received the B.S. degree (with highest honor) from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2017. In 2018, He was with a silicon-valley start-up, working on extremely broadband millimeter-wave transceiver for 5G communication.

Dr. Chi is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2023, the Rice School of Engineering Teaching and Research Excellence Award in 2023, the Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (Georgia Tech Chapter) in 2018, the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Best Paper Award in 2017, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award in 2017, the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications in 2016, and the USTC Guo Moruo Presidential Scholarship in 2012.

His RISE group has received multiple Best Paper Awards and nominations, including the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Lewis Winner Outstanding Paper Award in 2024, the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Advanced Practice Paper Award Finalist in 2024 and 2021, the IEEE RFIC Symposium Industry Paper Award Finalist in 2023, the IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award Finalist in 2022, the IEEE CICC Best Student Paper Award in 2021, and the Texas Wireless Symposium Student Research Competition Award (1st Place) in 2021.