Chik Patrick Yue

Editorial Board Member | IEEE Fellow

Professor of ECE & Director of IC Design Center

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

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. Based on his Ph.D. thesis work, he co-founded Atheros Communications in 1998 and contributed to the development and deployment of the world’s first IEEE802.11a CMOS Wi-Fi transceiver system-on-chip (SoC). In 2002, he joined Aeluros to work on CMOS high-speed PHY/SerDes IC design and signal integrity issues in chip packaging. In 2003, he joined Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2006, he moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara and was promoted to full professor in 2010. Since 2011, he has been a Professor in ECE at HKUST. From 2014 to 2015, he served as the first Associate Provost for Knowledge Transfer at HKUST. Currently, he is the Director of the HKUST Integrated Circuit Design Center, the Optical Wireless Lab, and the HKUST-Qualcomm Lab. Prof. Yue is a Member of ACM and a Fellow of IEEE and OSA.