Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: yjia@austin.utexas.edu
Dr. Yaoyao Jia is currently an Associate 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 2025 IEEE TBioCAS Best Associate Editors Award, the 2025 Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, the 2024 IEEE BioCAS Young Professional Top Contributor, 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) and IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). 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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Postdoctoral Researchers
Ph.D. Students
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 Dalian University of Technology in 2019 and his M.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 2022. He is now a Ph.D. student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 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.
Bo-Ren Wang (August 2023 – present)
Bo-Ren received his B.S. from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 2004, and his M.S. degree in Electrical and 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 ICs. From 2022 to July 2023, he was a display silicon architect based in San Diego, CA. He joined Renesas Electronics Austin recently while pursuing his Ph.D. at the University of Texas.
Linrui Jiang (August 2025 – present)
Linrui received his B.Eng. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2020. He was an M.S. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. His research interests include efficient neural network accelerators, hardware-aware AI algorithms, and edge device design. Personal Website: https://linruij.github.io/.
Hao Lu (August 2025 – present)
Hao received his B.E. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2025 and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include analog/mixed-signal ICs for bio-implantable devices and applications. He also enjoys fitness and basketball.
Haifeng Zhang (Fall 2026 – present)
Haifeng received his B.S. degree from Northeastern University in 2021 and his M.S. degree from The University of Tokyo in 2023. During 2024 – 2026, he worked as an analog design engineer at Renesas, Tokyo. He is now a Ph.D. student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include analog circuit and energy-efficient circuit design for bio applications.
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Graduate Research Assistants
Tyler Haverlah (Fall 2025 – present)
Tyler received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2026 and is currently pursuing his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin. His research interests include analog and mixed-signal hardware design for low-power applications.
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Shangyi Fang (Fall 2026 – present)
Shangyi received her B.Eng. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2026 and is currently pursuing an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Integrated Circuits and Systems. Her research interests include analog/mixed-signal IC design and biomedical signal processing, particularly SAR ADCs.
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Alumnus
Linran Zhao (Ph.D., August 2024; Postdoctoral Researcher, August 2024–August 2026), Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT
Zongyu Wang (M.S., May 2026), TSMC
Sharon Xiangyi Chen (M.S., May 2023), TI
Auria Nutter (M.S., May 2024)
Raymond G. Stephany (M.S., May 2023)
