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 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, the Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2015, the Texas Instruments CICC Student Scholarship Award in 2014, the Georgia Tech GEDC Fellowship in 2012, and the USTC Guo Moruo Presidential Scholarship in 2012. He is also a co-recipient of the IEEE SENSORS Best Live Demo Award (2nd place) in 2016, and the IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Awards (2nd place) in 2016 and 2018.

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
  • IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Best Student Paper Award, 2021
  • IEEE International Microwave Symposium (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
  • ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award, 2023
  • IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award, 2022
  • Cadence Women in Technology Scholarship, 2021
  • NSF Student Registration Award for IEEE RFIC, 2021
  • IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (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
  • ISSCC Student Travel Grant Award, 2023
  • IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2022
  • NSF Student Registration Award for IEEE RFIC, 2022
  • IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (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:

    Yulei Shen

  • Class of 2023

    • Jack Tomkiewicz

  • Class of 2024
  • IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate Scholarship, 2023

    • Bill Rui

  • Class of 2024

    • Visiting Students:

    Alumni:

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

  • Will join MIT for PhD

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

  • Now RF engineer at Jacobs

    • Madeline Stern (B.S., 2022)

  • Now hardware device engineer at Alarm.com

    • Katrina Ji (B.S., 2022)

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

    • Robert Chen (B.S., 2022)

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), 2020
  • Now working in an aerospace startup

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