C. Patrick Yue

Prof. C. Patrick Yue received his B.S. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 with highest honors and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is now a Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Between 2014 and 2015, he served as the Associate Provost for Knowledge Transfer of HKUST. His current research interests include optical communication and millimeter-wave system-on-chip design, visible light communication for IoT applications, and wireless power transfer for mobile devices. From 1998 to 2002, Prof. Yue was a co-founder of Atheros Communications (now Qualcomm-Atheros) and held a Consulting Assistant Professor position at Stanford. In 2003, he joined Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor. In 2006, he moved to the University of California Santa Barbara and served as a Professor and the Associate Director of Computer Engineering. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, 2 book chapters and holds 20 issued patents. He was a co-recipient of the best student paper awards at the 2003 ISSCC and the 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium. He has served on various IEEE conference committees and was an Editor of the IEEE Electron Device Letters and the IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society Magazine. He was an AdCom Member, the VP of Membership, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society. Prof. Yue is an IEEE Fellow and an Optica Fellow.