About OWL🦉
Optical Wireless Laboratory (OWL) is a research lab led by Prof. Chik Patrick YUE in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, HKUST.
Our current research aspects include mm-wave integrated circuit design, optical/wireline transceiver IC design, wireless power transfer, multi-robot human collaboration, and FPGA-based accelerator for 3D model reconstruction, Vehicle-to-Grid for Grid resilience and Wireless power transfer for Brain Machine Interface.
Opening positions for MPhil, PhD students, post-doc and visiting assistant professor.
Opening undergraduate research opportunities (UROP Projects). Click here for more information!
Research Projects
Current Projects
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Optical wireless physical layer circuits and systems
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High-speed wireline communication system-on-chip (SoC)
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Millimeter-wave communication and sensing circuits
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FPGA-based accelerator for 3D model reconstruction
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AI-Driven Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Distributed Energy Storage Management for Improved Grid Resilience
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Neural Implant - Wireless Power Transfer for Integrated Bidirectional Brain Machine Interface Systems
Past Projects
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Ultra-low-power adaptive passive equalizer for >10 Gbps
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Sub-circuit standard cell library for predictive analog design
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On-wafer wireless testing with on-chip antenna
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Indoor positioning and image processing technologies for robotic applications
Congratulation to Shuo Sarah Feng won the Best Poster Award at Asia photonics Conference 2026!
At APC 2026 Singapore, Prof. C. Patrick YUE gave a plenary talk on optical PCIe/CXL interconnects.
Prof. YUE received a heartfelt “thank you” note from a student, which is the most satisfying moment as a teacher!
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