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Taiyun Chi

Taiyun Chi

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

CONTACT

O'Connor 450 | (713) 348-2378 | taiyun.chi@rice.edu

WEBSITE(S)| Rice Integrated Systems and Electromagnetics (RISE) Lab | Rice Wireless

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.

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 (Rice Integrated Systems and Electromagnetics) 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 2024 and 2021.

Research Areas

Analog/RF/mmWave integrated circuits and systems for high-speed wireless communication and sensing Integrated bio-sensors and stimulators for in-vitro and in-vivo neuro-engineering applications

Education

2017 Ph.D. ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology

2012 B.S. ECE, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

Honors & Awards

2017 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Best Paper Award

2017 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award

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