PhD Student

Xinyi LIU received her B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in 2020. She is currently pursuing her PhD degree in ECE at HKUST, under the joint PhD training program in partnership with SUSTech. Her research mainly focuses on visible light communication.

PhD Student

Johar ABDEKHODA received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees, both in Electronics Engineering and from Urmia University, Urmia, Iran. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering through the Sharif University of Technology (SUT) and HKUST dual-degree program. His current research focuses on clocking for wireline, optical, and wireless communications.

PhD Student (Google Scholar)

Sarah Shuo FENG received her B.Eng. in Microelectronics Engineering from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in 2023. She is currently a PhD candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where her research centers on high-speed optical wireline and wireless integrated circuit design, with applications in data centers and satellite communications. In recognition of her teaching excellence, she received the 2024 Spring Best TA Award. Beyond her academic research, she actively contributes to the ECE community, serving as the ECE Teaching Assistant Coordinator for the 2024–2025 term.

PhD Student

Hugo Xionghui ZHOU received his B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Macau in 2021 and M.Sc. in Microelectronics from the State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed Signal VLSI (AMSV), University of Macau (UM) in 2024. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree in ECE at HKUST. His research mainly focuses on wireline IC design.

PhD Student

Jennifer Jia FU received her B.Eng. in Electronic Science and Technology from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in 2020. She earned her M.Eng. in Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics from the Shenzhen Graduate School of Peking University (PKU) in 2023, where her research focused on display and read-out circuit design. Following her master's studies, she worked as an analog circuit design engineer at ZTE in Chengdu. Since 2024, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in ECE at HKUST. Her doctoral research primarily centers on clocking schemes for high-speed optical and wireline transceivers. She has a strong interest in music and sports. After joining HKUST, she took up squash and occasionally goes hiking or works out at the gym.

PhD Student

Joyce Jingyao DONG received her B.Eng. in Microelectronics Science and Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in 2025. In the same year, she received the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award and the Guo Xie Birong Scholarship, demonstrating her excellent academic capabilities and personal qualities. Now she is pursuing her PhD degree in ECE at HKUST. Her research mainly focuses on high-speed optical communication and wireline integrated circuit design.

MPhil Student

Juho JEON received his B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering and a Minor in Information Technology from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2024. He received the Best Final Year Thesis Award 2024, the first runner-up, for CMOS SAR ADC Design, which led him to pursue a MPhil degree in ECE at HKUST. His research mainly focuses on high-speed ADC design and optical wireline IC design. What's more, he has actively represented and served the ECE department and community as an ECE Student Ambassador 2023-24, and ECE Teaching Assistant Coordinator 2025-present. 

PhD Student

​Matthew Ruitao Ma​ received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Electronic Science and Technology from the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) in 2022. He subsequently earned his Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Integrated Circuit Design Engineering from HKUST in 2023. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) at HKUST. His research primarily focuses on the design of mmWave transmitters for 5G and 6G communication technologies. 

As a co-founder of ​High5Semi, the startup led by Prof. Patrick Yue, Matthew contributed to the successful application for the ​RAISe+​​ project. This effort secured approved funding exceeding ​HKD 33 million from ITF.

PhD Student

Bruce Hongyu BAO received his B.Eng. in Electronic Science and Technology from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in 2022, and an M.Sc. in Integrated Circuit Design from the joint program between Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2024. He is currently a PhD student in ECE at HKUST, focusing on mmWave integrated circuit design, with an emphasis on Ka-band phased array transceiver front ends for satellite communication. Outside research, he enjoys table tennis, badminton, and basketball.

PhD Student (Google Scholar)

Zhiyu LIU received the B. Eng. degree in Communications Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2018, the M.Sc. degree in IC Design Engineering and M.Phil. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2021 and 2025 respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in ECE at HKUST. His research mainly focuses on PLL and frequency synthesizer design.

MPhil Student

Sungjun LEE received his B.Eng. degree in ECE at HKUST in 2024. He is currently pursuing his MPhil degree in ECE at HKUST. His research mainly focuses on mmWave integrated circuit design.

MPhil Student (Google Scholar)

Albert Fangming BAO received his B.Eng degree from HKUST in 2025, majoring in Electronic Engineering. During his undergraduate studies, he received dean's list award for three consecutive semesters from ECE department, HKUST. He also received the country level silver award at the 14th "Challenge Cup" Qin Chuangyuan Chinese College Student Entrepreneurship Plan Competition. He is currently pursuing his MPhil degree in ECE at HKUST. His research mainly focuses on mmWave integrated circuit design.

PhD Student (Part-time)

Clare Outong GAO received her B.Sc. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Beijing Technology and Business University in 2020, and her M.Eng. degree in Integrated Circuit Engineering from South China University of Technology in 2023. She is pursuing her PhD degree in ECE under the HKUST * ASTRI part-time PhD program. Her research mainly focuses on mmWave integrated circuit design.

PhD Student

Toni LEUNG received his B.Eng. in Electronic and Computer Engineering and M.Sc. degree in Integrated Circuit Design Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is currently pursuing his PhD degree in ECE at HKUST. His research mainly focuses on the design of neural implants.

PhD Student (Google Scholar)

Erwin Wenhui OU received his B.Eng. degree from Central South University (CSU) in 2021 and his M.Eng. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2024. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at HKUST. His research focuses on edge accelerators for IoT, particularly leveraging hardware–software co-design to bring cloud-level applications efficiently to edge devices. He works across multiple system layers, from model quantization and hardware design to FPGA deployment, and enjoys tackling challenges that span the entire system stack. Outside of research, he enjoys competitive sports such as basketball and badminton.

PhD Student

Andy Dongjun WU received his B.Eng. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2022 and his M.Sc. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2023. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research interests lie in computer vision, with a primary focus on developing efficient and generative models for 3D reconstruction and generation. Specifically, he explores cutting-edge techniques such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and diffusion models to achieve high-fidelity and scalable 3D content generation.

PhD Student

Wilkins Yijian Wu received his B.Eng. in Computer Science from HKUST in 2022, where he was awarded the CSE Best Final Year Project. He subsequently received M.Sc. degree in Information Technology from HKUST in 2023. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in ECE at HKUST. His areas of interest in computer vision research are centered on open-vocabulary scene understanding to perceive novel objects robustly across real-world domains.

PhD Student

Thomas Yusen TO received his B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2025. During his undergraduate studies, he was awarded the Jardine Schindler Engineering Scholarship and completed an internship at Schindler, while he obtained the Construction Industry Safety Training Certificate. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in ECE at HKUST. His research focuses on efficient image editing in computer vision, specifically leveraging diffusion models to accelerate single-image editing by exploiting temporal and spatial redundancies. Beyond academics, Thomas is an avid reader with a passion for science fiction, particularly enjoying Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem series and Jiang Nan's Dragon Raja novels.

PhD Student (Google Scholar)

Javaid Aslam is pursuing his PhD in ECE from HKUST investigating the impact of Electric Vehicles (EVs) as Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) edge devices for smart city power networks and machine learning applications for load forecasting. He earned MSc in Energy Engineering and BSc in Electronics and Communication Engineering from UET Lahore where he was awarded the Punjab Workers Welfare undergraduate scholarship. Currently he is serving and a Lecturer in EE at the University of Gujrat since February 2014, where he supervised funded undergraduate projects including EV battery charging cycle optimization (2022-2023, NGIRI-IGNITE) and an Intelligent electricity consumption billing notifier system (2023-2024, PEC). He is an active reviewer for IEEE Access since 2020 and Elsevier's ECM/ECMX since 2017. His earlier industry experiences span energy meter production, electrical and software testing complying IEC and WAPDA standards at Creative Electronics Pvt Ltd. His honors include appreciation from Pakistan Ministry of Information Technology & Telecommunication and the University of Gujrat. Beyond his academic engagements, he served as a student ambassador from SENG at HKUST welcoming the new RPGS and TPGs in Fall 2025-26. He is an avid basketball and snooker player. 

MPhil Student (Part-time)

Jacky Yik Chuen LAU received his B.Sc. degree in Information Systems from Staffordshire University. He is currently pursuing his MPhil degree in ECE at HKUST under the dual master's degree program in partnership with University of Strathclyde (UoS). His research mainly focuses on big data analytics and machine learning.

MPhil Student (Part-time)

Welthia Wingyee CHUNG is a communication engineer with extensive experience in designing, implementing, and operating IP data network infrastructure for service providers including PCCW Global, China Mobile International, Telstra International/REACH, and HGC. Over the past four years, she has contributed to major telecommunications projects for leading Hong Kong utilities such as HKE and CLP.
She is currently pursuing a dual master’s degree (MPhil and M.Sc.) through a collaborative program jointly developed by CLP Power Academy, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and the University of Strathclyde. Her research mainly focuses on electric vehicle (EV) load forecasting, leveraging real-world charging data from Hong Kong to enable smarter grid management and energy planning that meets the city’s evolving needs.

MPhil Student (Part-time)

Boris Wong Ka Chun received his B.Sc. degree in Information Technology from Coventry University. He is currently pursuing his MPhil degree in ECE at HKUST and MSc degree in EEE at UoS. His research mainly focuses on spatio-temporal artificial intelligence, indoor positioning, and edge computing.

Intern

Natalie Jing YUE is a student at Chinese International School pursuing the International Baccalaureate Diploma, with a focus on Higher Level Mathematics and Economics. Her research interest lies in the intersection of technology, policy, and society. Currently, she is investigating how the integration of electric vehicles (EVs) and smart grids (V2G) in modern infrastructure is affecting other advancements such as data centers for AI. This passion for tech-driven solutions is informed by experience in global affairs as a Model UN delegate and a Junior Reporter for the South China Morning Post. Beyond academics, Natalie is a dedicated athlete and a proud representative of Hong Kong on the national Wakesurf Squad Team.