Kaiyuan Yang
Assistant Professor of ECE
Rice University
Dr. Yang received his Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2012. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, in 2014 and 2017. His Ph.D. work was recognized by the 2016-2017 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award. He has been an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University since 2017. He has received multiple best paper awards (finalists) at major conferences, including IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), and IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) .
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2017
University of Michigan
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2014
University of Michigan
B.E. in Electrical Engineering, 2012
Tsinghua University
Conference Papers
- Magnetoelectric Backscatter Communication for Millimeter-Sized Wireless Biomedical Implants. ACM International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom), 2022.
- Software-hardware codesign for efficient in-memory regular pattern matching. ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2022.
- A Wireless Network of 8.8mm3 Bio-Implants Featuring Adaptive Magnetoelectric Power and Multi-Access Bidirectional Telemetry. 2022 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2022.
- CAMA: Energy and Memory Efficient Automata Processing in Content-Addressable Memories. IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2022.
- A Lossless and Modeling Attack-Resistant Strong PUF with <4E-8 Bit Error Rate. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2022.
- DCT-RAM: A Driver-Free Process-In-Memory 8T SRAM Macro with Multi-Bit Charge-Domain Computation and Time-Domain Quantization. IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2022.
- MC2-RAM: An In-8T-SRAM Computing Macro Featuring Multi-Bit Charge-Domain Computing and ADC-Reduction Weight Encoding. 2021 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2021.
- MePLER: A 20.6-pJ Side-Channel-Aware In-Memory CDT Sampler. 2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2021.
- Multisite Bio-stimulating Implants Magnetoelectrically Powered and Individually programmed by a single transmitter. 2021 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2021.
- 12.3 Exploring PUF-Controlled PA Spectral Regrowth for Physical-Layer Identification of IoT Nodes. 2021 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2021.
- 36.5 An Automatic Self-Checking and Healing Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) with textless3×10-8 Bit Error Rate. 2021 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2021.
- AA-ResNet: Energy Efficient All-Analog ResNet Accelerator. 2020 IEEE 63rd International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2020.
- 25.3 A 65nm Edge-Chasing Quantizer-Based Digital LDO Featuring 4.58ps-FoM and Side-Channel-Attack Resistance. 2020 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), 2020.
- An 8.2mm3 Implantable Neurostimulator with Magnetoelectric Power and Data Transfer. 2020 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), 2020.
- Custom CMOS and Post-CMOS Crossbar Circuits for Resource-Constrained Hardware Security Primitives. 2019 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2019.
- A 0.84pJ/cycle Wheatstone Bridge Based CMOS RC Oscillator with Reconfigurable Frequencies. 2019 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2019.
- IoT2 — the Internet of Tiny Things: Realizing Mm-Scale Sensors through 3D Die Stacking. 2019 Design, Automation Test in Europe Conference Exhibition (DATE), 2019.
- A 562F2 Physically Unclonable Function with a Zero-Overhead Stabilization Scheme. 2019 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference - (ISSCC), 2019.
- A 0.04mm3 16nW Wireless and Batteryless Sensor System with Integrated Cortex-M0+ Processor and Optical Communication for Cellular Temperature Measurement. 2018 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2018.
- A 28nm Integrated True Random Number Generator Harvesting Entropy from MRAM. 2018 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2018.
- A 1.02nW PMOS-Only, Trim-Free Current Reference with 282ppm/°C from -40°C to 120°C and 1.6% within-Wafer Inaccuracy. ESSCIRC 2017 - 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference, 2017.
- A Sequence Dependent Challenge-Response Puf Using 28nm SRAM 6T Bit Cell. 2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2017.
- Recryptor: A Reconfigurable in-Memory Cryptographic Cortex-M0 Processor for IoT. 2017 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, 2017.
- Rectified-Linear and Recurrent Neural Networks Built with Spin Devices. 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2017.
- A 0.6nJ -0.22/+0.19°C Inaccuracy Temperature Sensor Using Exponential Subthreshold Oscillation Dependence. 2017 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2017.
- A 1Mb Embedded NOR Flash Memory with 39µW Program Power for Mm-Scale High-Temperature Sensor Nodes. 2017 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2017.
- A 553F2 2-Transistor Amplifier-Based Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) with 1.67% Native Instability. 2017 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2017.
- A 114-pW PMOS-Only, Trim-Free Voltage Reference with 0.26% within-Wafer Inaccuracy for nW Systems. 2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits), 2016.
- A 66pW Discontinuous Switch-Capacitor Energy Harvester for Self-Sustaining Sensor Applications. 2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits), 2016.
- A Compact 446 Gbps/W AES Accelerator for Mobile SoC and IoT in 40nm. 2016 IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits), 2016.
- A2: Analog Malicious Hardware. 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2016.
- A 60%-Efficiency 20nW-500µW Tri-Output Fully Integrated Power Management Unit with Environmental Adaptation and Load-Proportional Biasing for IoT Systems. 2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2016.
- iRazor: 3-Transistor Current-Based Error Detection and Correction in an ARM Cortex-R4 Processor. 2016 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2016.
- A robust −40 to 120°C all-digital true random number generator in 40nm CMOS. 2015 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI Circuits), 2015.
- Racetrack Converter: A Low Power and Compact Data Converter Using Racetrack Spintronic Devices. 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2015.
- A Physically Unclonable Function with BER <10-8 for Robust Chip Authentication Using Oscillator Collapse in 40nm CMOS. 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2015.
- 15.4b Incremental Sigma-Delta Capacitance-to-Digital Converter with Zoom-in 9b Asynchronous SAR. 2014 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, 2014.
- A 23Mb/s 23pJ/b Fully Synthesized True-Random-Number Generator in 28nm and 65nm CMOS. 2014 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2014.
- A Transformer-Based Filtering Technique to Lower LC-Oscillator Phase Noise. 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2012.
- Design Quality Tradeoff Studies for 3D ICs Built with Nano-Scale TSVs and Devices. 2012 13th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2012.