Team

Principle Investigator

Taiyun Chi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Taiyun Chi joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Rice University as an Assistant Professor 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 for Junior Faculty 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 the IEEE CICC Best Student Paper Award in 2021 and multiple Best Paper Award Finalists, such as the IEEE RFIC Symposium Industry Paper Award Finalist in 2023, the IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper Award Finalist in 2022, and the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Advanced Practice Paper Award Finalist in 2021.

Postdoc Scholar:

Hao Guo

  • Ph.D., University of Macau, Macau, China, 2021
  • M.S., Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMECAS), Beijing, China, 2017
  • B.S., University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, 2014

    • Ph.D. Students:

    Yaolong Hu

  • M.S., Rice University, Houston, TX, 2022
  • B.E., Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China, 2018
  • ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award, 2024
  • IEEE RFIC Industry Paper Award Finalist, 2023
  • IEEE CICC Best Student Paper Award, 2021
  • IEEE IMS Advanced Practice Paper Award Finalist, 2021
  • Best Undergraduate Thesis Award of ISEE College, Zhejiang University, 2018
  • Outstanding Graduate Award of Zhejiang Province, 2018
  • ISEE Honor Student Award, Zhejiang University, 2017
  • First Prize of 7th National Mathematics Competition, 2015
  • First-Class Scholarship for Outstanding Students, Zhejiang University, 2014 – 2017

    • Yingying Fan

  • M.S., Rice University, Houston, TX, 2022
  • M.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2019
  • B.E., Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2017
  • IEEE CASS Pre-Doctoral Grant, 2024
  • SSCS Rising Star, 2024
  • ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award, 2023
  • IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award, 2022
  • Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship, 2021
  • NSF Student Registration Award for IEEE RFIC, 2021
  • IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications, 2021
  • IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) Student Demonstration Competition Award (2nd Place), 2018
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, 2017
  • Outstanding Graduate of Southeast University, 2017
  • Analog Device Innovative Scholarship, 2016
  • National Scholarship, 2015

    • Qiang Zhou

  • M.S., Rice University, Houston, TX, 2022
  • B.S., Peking University, Beijing, China, 2019
  • Student Research Competition Award (1st Place) at IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems, 2021
  • Second Prize of University Student Mathematics Competition, 2017
  • Third Prize of University Student Physics Competition, 2017

    • Xiaohan Zhang

  • M.S., Rice University, Houston, TX, 2022
  • B.S., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2019
  • IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award, 2024
  • IEEE RFIC Industry Paper Award Finalist, 2023
  • ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award, 2023
  • IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2022
  • NSF Student Registration Award for IEEE RFIC, 2022
  • IEEE CICC Best Student Paper Award, 2021
  • Best Bachelor Thesis Award of Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, 2019
  • First Prize of 32nd and 33rd National College Physics Competition, 2015, 2016

    • Gerald Topalli

  • Rice IBB Travel Grant Award, 2022
  • B.Sc., Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey, 2020
  • Ranked 3rd in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, ITU
  • Albanian National Mathematics Olympiad Winner (2nd prize), 2016

    • Hang Wang

  • B.S., School of Gifted Young, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, 2020
  • Silver Prize, Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship, 2019
  • Grand Prize, Competition of Physical Research Experiments of University, 2018
  • 1st Prize & Best Player Award, China Undergraduate Physics Tournament, 2017

    • Undergraduate Students:

    Didi Zhou

  • Class of 2025
  • NSF REU recipient

    • Visiting Students:

    Alumni:

    Bill Rui (B.S., 2024)

  • After Rice: pursuing Ph.D. at Princeton
  • First-author paper at IEEE ICC, 2024

    • Jack Tomkiewicz (B.S., 2024)

  • After Rice: pursuing Ph.D. at MIT
  • IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate Scholarship, 2023
  • Invited to present at Rice Shapiro Showcase, 2023
  • First-author paper at IEEE Texas Wireless Symposium, 2023

    • Yan Xu (visiting student from UESTC, 2022-2023)

  • After Rice: pursuing Ph.D. at MIT

    • Yulei Shen (B.S., 2023)

  • After Rice: pursuing Ph.D. at UIUC

    • James Allen Morrison (M.S., 2022)

  • After Rice: RF engineer at Jacobs

    • Madeline Stern (B.S., 2022)

  • After Rice: hardware device engineer at Alarm.com

    • Katrina Ji (B.S., 2022)

  • After Rice: pursuing M.S. at UPenn
  • NSF Student Registration Award for IEEE RFIC/IMS 2020
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), 2020

    • Robert Chen (B.S., 2022)

  • After Rice: working in an aerospace startup
  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), 2020

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