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Prof. Chik Patrick Yue

eepatrick@ust.hk
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PhD in Electrical Engineering

Professor
Director, HKUST Integrated Circuit Design Center (ICDC)
Director, HKUST-Qualcomm Joint Innovation and Research Lab
Director, Optical Wireless Lab
Director, Dual Master's Degree Programme Focusing on Future Energy and Power System Smart Operation and Management

C. Patrick Yue (S’93–M’98–SM’05–F’15) received the B.S. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering (Highest Hons.) from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1994 and 1998, respectively. 

His research interest includes optical wireless physical layer circuits and systems, high-speed wireline communication SoC, millimeter-wave communication and sensing circuits, indoor positioning and image processing technologies for robotic applications, and edge computing accelerator design for IoT applications.

Prof. Chik Patrick YUE

PhD in Electrical Engineering

Professor
Director, HKUST Integrated Circuit Design Center (ICDC)
Director, HKUST-Qualcomm Joint Innovation and Research Lab
Director, Optical Wireless Lab
Director, Dual Master's Degree Programme Focusing on Future Energy and Power System Smart Operation and Management

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PhD, Stanford
Fellow, IEEE
Fellow, OSA

Prof. Yue received his BSEE from UT Austin, his Master and PhD degrees in EE from Stanford in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He has cofounded a few startups in Silicon Valley and Hong Kong, including Atheros Communications (1998), Jetcomm Technologies (2014), LiPHY Communications (2019), and High5 Semiconductor (2024) to commercialize and transfer technologies from academic to industry. He has been a professor for over two decades and has taught IC design courses and conduct research at Carnegie Mellon (2003-06), UC Santa Barbara (2006-11), Tsinghua (2015-16), HKUST (2010-now), and Stanford (1998 & 2025). He has supervised over 10 post-docs, 30 PhD and 10 MPhil student. He has published over 250 technical papers and holds over 25 patents. Together with his students and teachers, he has won a number of awards including the IEEE VLSI Circuit Symposium Test of Time Award (2024), the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Outstanding Young Author Award (2017), and the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Youth Award by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (2016), and the ISSCC Best Student Paper Award (2003). Prof. Yue is a Fellow of the IEEE and Optica. 

His current research interests spans over a few diverse areas including optical wireline and mmWave wireless integrated circuits, 3D computer vision models, and smart power network management system.
 

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Email: eepatrick@ust.hk
Office: CYT 3010

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Postdocs

Fuzhan Chen
Fuzhan CHEN

PhD (Google Scholar)

Dr. CHEN received B.S. degree from Hefei University of Technology in 2017 and M.S. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020, both in microelectronic science and engineering. In 2025, he obtained PhD degree in electronic and computer engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow. His research focuses on transceiver integrated circuit design for high-speed optical and wireline communications.

Dr. CHEN has presented at IEEE conferences such as ISSCC, CICC, and ESSCIRC. He has published 11 papers, including 5 as the first author, and holds 1 Chinese patent. He has received 24-25 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award and 23-24 HKUST Redbird Academic Excellence Award.

Visiting Scholars

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Li WANG

PhD (Google Scholar)

Dr. WANG obtained his B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2016 and his Ph.D. from the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. From 2021 to 2024, he held a postdoctoral researcher position at HKUST. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Wang's research focuses on integrated circuit design for large-capacity mmWave beamformers and high-speed chip-to-chip interconnections. He has authored 34 peer-reviewed publications, including 14 as the first author, in prestigious journals and conferences such as the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) and the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits.
He has received the Youth Talented Scheme funding support from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and serves as a reviewer for various journals, including JSSC and IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (TMTT).

Frederick Ziyang Hong
Frederick Ziyang HONG

PhD (Google Scholar)

Dr. Hong received his M.Sc. and B.Eng. degrees in integrated circuit design engineering from HKUST and Guangdong University of Technology in 2019 and 2018, respectively. He also received his Ph.D. degree in Dept. ECE, HKUST in 2024. He was a Research Assistant with the China Electronic Product Reliability and Environmental Testing Research Institute in 2017. Now, he is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Huawei Hong Kong Research Center (HKRC). His current research interests include computer architecture, deep learning, and 3D computer vision.