Meet the Team

Faculty

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Kaiyuan Yang

Associate Professor of ECE

Graduate Students

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Zhanghao Yu

Ph.D. Student (started in 2018)

Bioelectronics, Wireless Power Transfer and Telemetry, Power Management

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Yan He

Ph.D. Student (started in 2018)

Mixed-Signal Circuits, Hardware Security

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Zhiyu Chen

Ph.D. Student (started in 2018)

In-Memory Computing, Machine Learning

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Akhil Pakala

Ph.D. Student (started in 2020)

In-Memory Computing, Hardware Security

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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, Wireless Power Transfer and Telemetry, Analog and Mixed-signal IC

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Ziyuan Wen

Ph.D. Student (started in 2022)

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

Undergraduate Students

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Yumin Su

Class of 2023

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Chris Zhou

Class of 2025

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Ethan Peck

Class of 2024

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James Ding

Class of 2024

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Naveed Ahmed

Class of 2024

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Prahalad Chari

Class of 2025

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Weili Fan

Class of 2024

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

Alumni (Undergraduate and High-School Students)

Qixuan Yu (Rice University, 2020-2022) -> now pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Princeton University

Yi Huang (University of Science and Technology of China, 2020-2021) -> now pursuing a Master degree at Tsinghua University

Chenlin Xu (Duke University, Summer 2020) -> now pursuing a Ph.D. degree at University of Southern California

Jarely Mendez (East Early College High School, Summer 2019) -> now attending University of Houston

Johnny Cortez (East Early College High School, Summer 2019) -> now attending Duke University

Mitchell Gregory (Rice Class of 2020, Summer 2018)

Avery Johnson (Rice Class of 2020, Summer 2018)

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.