Meet the Team

Faculty

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Kaiyuan Yang

Associate Professor of ECE

Graduate Students

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Wei Wang

Ph.D. Student (started in 2021)

RF, Implant Power Delivery

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Huan-Cheng Liao

Ph.D. Student (started in 2021)

Low-Power Mixed Signal IC, Bioelectronics

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Yiwei Zou

Ph.D. Student (started in 2022)

Low Power Analog IC, Energy Havesting

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Yonghee Chang

Ph.D. Student (started in 2022)

Biomedical implants, Analog and Mixed-signal IC, Electrochemical sensors, Human phantom

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Ziyuan Wen

Ph.D. Student (started in 2022)

Deep Learning, Hardware-Software Co-Design, In-Memory Computing

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Yumin Su

Ph.D. Student (started in 2023)

Hardware Security, Fully Synthesizable Circuit Designs

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Rongqing Cong

Ph.D. Student (started in 2024)

Hardware-Software Co-Design, In-Memory Computing

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Juan Garza

MS Student (started in 2024)

RTL design, FPGA development, RISC-V

Undergraduate Students

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Naveed Ahmed

Class of 2024

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Elliot Chae

Class of 2026

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Anthony Zhang

Class of 2028

Alumni (Graduate Students)

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Liwen Jiang

MECE 2021, now at NVIDIA

Low Power Analog & Mixed-Signal Circuits, Biomedical Sensors

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Dai Li

PhD 2021, now at Google

Hardware security, Low-power mixed-signal integrated circuits

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Haotian Dai

MECE 2023

Hardware Security, Power Management

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Zhanghao Yu

PhD 2023, now at Intel

Bioelectronics, Wireless Power Transfer and Telemetry, Power Management

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Yan He

PhD 2023, now at Nvidia

Mixed-Signal Circuits, Hardware Security

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Zhiyu Chen

PhD 2023, now at Apple

In-Memory Computing, Machine Learning

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Akhil Pakala

MECE 2024, now at Apple

In-Memory Computing, Hardware Security

Alumni (Undergraduate and High-School Students)

James Ding (Rice University, 2022-2024) -> Master student at Stanford University

Ethan Peck (Rice University, 2022-2024) -> Engineer at Amazon

Xingyu Chen (Rice University, 2020-2022) -> PhD student at University of Toronto

Frank Chen (Rice University, 2020-2022) -> Senior Engineer at SambaNova Systems

Yi Huang (University of Science and Technology of China, 2020-2021) -> PhD student at Tsinghua University

Chenlin Xu (Duke University, Summer 2020) -> PhD student at University of Southern California

Jarely Mendez (East Early College High School, Summer 2019) -> Undergraduate student at University of Houston

Johnny Cortez (East Early College High School, Summer 2019) -> Undergraduate student at Duke University

Mitchell Gregory (Rice Class of 2020, Summer 2018) -> Engineer at Western Digital

Avery Johnson (Rice Class of 2020, Summer 2018) -> Patent Agent at Fletcher Yoder

Prospective Students

If you are interested in innovating hardware to enable future applications, and demonstrating your ideas with real silicon chips and practical systems, please join us! A background in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and other related programs is required. Experience with electronics and IC design is preferred, but creativity and motivation are the utmost criteria. Please check out our research and publications for more details about our research.

  • Current Rice students looking for research opportunities: Please email Dr. Yang to schedule a meeting.
Please start your email subject with [Rice owls] for filtering purposes!
  • Non-Rice students interested in Ph.D. program and internships: Please follow the official guidelines to apply for Rice ECE and select computer engineering as your research area. There is NO application fee and NO GRE requirement!
I encourage you to contact me regarding your application. But due to the large number of emails I receive, I may not read and reply to everyone. Don’t be discouraged from applying because of no email response. When you email, please (1) start your email subject with [Applicant] for filtering purposes; (2) include highlights about yourself in the subject; (3) attach your CV and transcripts.