Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: yjia@austin.utexas.edu
Dr. Yaoyao Jia is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Before joining UT, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University from Aug. 2019 to Aug. 2021. She received her Ph.D. degree in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in August 2019.
Her research interests lie in analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit design, power management integrated circuit design, wireless power and data transmission, energy harvesting, and system integration for implantables, injectables, and wearables.
She received the 2023 NSF CAREER Award, the 2023 Intel Rising Star Award, the 2022 Micromachines Best Paper Award, the 2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) Best Paper Award, and the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Predoctoral Achievement Award.
She is the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS). She also serves on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) and IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC).
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Postdoc
Linran Zhao (August 2020 – present)
Linran Zhao received his B.S. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2017 and his M.S. degree from the University of California, Irvine, in 2019. During 2019- 020, he worked as an analog design engineer in ASML, San Jose, CA. He completed his Ph.D. in July 2024 at The University of Texas at Austin and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Jia’s lab. His research interest includes analog/mixed-signal IC for bio-implantable devices and applications.
Ph.D. Students
Raymond G. Stephany (Jan. 2022 – present)
Ray is a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin, ICS track. He has over 30 years of experience in CMOS design – predominantly in CPU design, memory design, and design-technology co-optimization. He was the Senior Fellow at AMD and the Senior Director at Qualcomm. His current research interests include analog I.C. circuit design, portable and injectable EEG and ECG sensing and stimulation circuit design, as well as low power, low noise, small area circuit design. He also enjoys cycling, hiking, astronomy, cabinet making, and working on his golf game.
Shen Shen (August 2022 – present)
Shen Shen (申深) received his BS from Tsinghua University in 2008, and his MS from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2010. He is now with Broadcom as Principal R&D Analog Designer. Prior to joining Broadcom, he spent 10+ years developing RF, analog and mixed-signal ICs for WiFi/BT/LTE transceiver SoC products at Marvell Technology, Analog Devices and most recently Kumu Networks.
Yiming Han (August 2022 – present)
Yiming Han received his B.S. degree from the Dalian University of Technology in 2019 and his M.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 2022. When pursuing his M.S. degree, he worked as an intern analog/RF engineer in Hangzhou Chengxin Technology, Hangzhou, China. He is now a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include analog IC circuit design for bio applications and wireless EEG/ECG sensing circuit design.
Tzuping Huang (August 2023 – present)
Tzuping Huang obtained his B.S. degree in Electrophysics from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in 2017, followed by his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same university in 2019. With 3 years of professional experience at Novatek, he worked as both a digital IC designer and a design verification engineer during different periods. Currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, his research focuses on mixed-signal integrated circuit design for biomedical applications.
Bo-Ren Wang (August 2023 – present)
Bo-Ren Wang received B.S. from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2004, and M.S. degree in electrical computer engineering from the University of Texas, Austin in 2008. From 2009 to 2013 he was with Intel, Austin as a circuit design engineer in the CPU and SOC group. From 2013 to 2019 he joined Qualcomm, San Diego as an analog mixed-signal circuit designer in the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor group. From 2019 to 2021 he was with Cirrus Logic in Austin working on various analog blocks for speaker driver and power management IC. From 2022 to 2023 July he was a display silicon architect based in San Diego, CA. He joined Renesas Electronics Austin recently while pursuing Ph.D. at the University of Texas.
Jiankun Li (August 2024 – present)
Jiankun received his B.S. degree from Fudan University in 2024 and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, with a focus on analog and mixed-signal IC design, particularly for biomedical applications. In his free time, he enjoys reading, soccer, and hiking.
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Alumnus
Sharon Xiangyi Chen (MS in May 2023), TI
Auria Nutter (MS in May 2024)
