Prof. Patrick Yue (S’93–M’98–SM’05) was born in Nanjing, China in 1971 and lived in Hong Kong for ten years before moving to the US to study. He attained his B.S. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992 with highest honor. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1994 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a Professor in Electronics and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. He is on leave from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a Professor in ECE since 2010. His research interest is in the area of high-frequency modeling of CMOS devices, passive components and IC packages; ESD device and circuit schemes; high-speed wireless and wireline communication circuits; and CAD and design methodology for RFICs.

Based on his PhD work at Stanford, he co-founded Atheros Communications (now part of Qualcomm) where he was a member of the founding team that raised the first round of venture funding in 1998. He devoted four years at Atheros as an Analog Design Manager and the Foundry Manager. His expertise in CMOS RF device modeling was one of the key technical differentiators for Atheros, which led to the volume production of the world’s first CMOS 802.11 WiFi radio transceiver. In 2002, he joined a second startup Aeluros (now part of Broadcom) to develop CMOS transceiver IC for 10-Gbit optical communications. He was responsible for modeling the signal integrity issues at the chip, package and PCB interfaces. While working in the startups, Dr. Yue maintained his research activities by serving as a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford’s EE Department between 2001 and 2003. In 2003, after five years of industry experience, he returned to academia full time. He started teaching at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, as an Assistant Professor in ECE. In 2006, he moved back to CA to join UC Santa Barbara as an Associate Professor and later served as the Associate Director for the Computer Engineering Program from 2008 to 2010. In 2010, he was promoted to a full professor in ECE.

Prof. Yue has contributed to more than 60 peer-reviewed technical papers and two book chapters in the field of RF device modeling and circuit design. He holds 13 US patents of which majority are employed in commercial products. He was a co-recipient of the 2003 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Best Student Paper Award. He is the lead author of an all-time most cited paper in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits on the invention of the patterned ground shield for on-chip inductors (Google Citation Index: 884).  He has served on the committees for the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (ASSCC), IEEE Radio-Frequency IC Symposium (RFIC), IEEE Symposium on Radio-Frequency Integrated Technology (RFIT), and Symposium on VLSI - Design, Automation and Test (VLSI-DAT). He is an Editor of the IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL) covering the area of Integrated Circuits and ESD Protection. Prof. Yue has also served on the IEEE Electron Devices Society VLSI Technology and Circuits Committee from 2005 to 2010, and he has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 2005.