Director & Professor

Dr. Donald Y.C. Lie

Donald Y.C. Lie, Ph.D, Fellow, IEEE
Keh-Shew Lu Regents Chair Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering Chair Professor
College of Electrical Engineering National Yangming Chiao-Tung University (NYCU), Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Surgery
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC)
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3102 Email: Donald.Lie@ttu.edu  

Donald Y. C. Lie (S’86–M’87–SM’00-F’17) received his B.S.E.E. degree from the National Taiwan University in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (minor in applied physics) from Caltech, Pasadena, in 1990 and 1995, respectively. He has held technical and managerial positions at companies such as Rockwell International, Silicon-Wave (now Qualcomm), IBM, Microtune Inc., SYS Technologies, and Dynamic Research Corporation (DRC). He is currently the Keh-Shew Lu Regents Chair Professor… Redirect Tab for Dr. Donald Y. C. Lie (provides complete description)


Dr. Jerry Lopez

B.S., M.E., Ph.D.,

Dr. Jerry Lopez received the B.S. and M.E. degrees at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He also received his Ph.D. degree at Texas Tech University, Lubbock in Aug. 2011 from Professor Donald Lie’s group. Previously, he has worked for Northrop Grumman Corp. in research and development involving the design of highly efficient power amplifiers and polar …Redirect Tab for Dr. Jerry Lopez (provides complete description)


Dr. Tam Nguyen

M.D., F.A.C.S,

Dr. Nguyen received his BSEE from the University of Maryland , College Park and his MSE from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor all in electrical engineering in 1987 and 1990 respectively . He was a Ph.D. candidate at Michigan until 1992. He received a full undergraduate NSF fellowship at Maryland and a full graduate NSF research fellowship at Michigan. He was summer research fellow at …Redirect Tab for Dr. Tam Nguyen (provides complete description) 


Team Members

Clint Sweeney

Research Assistant/ PhD Student Research interest: RFIC, high-efficient mm-Wave power amplifier Design, 5G/6G Circuits and Systems Design 

Omar Elgarhy

Undergraduate Research Assistant. Interest: Graduate degree with research interest in the RFIC Lab

Michael Raab

Undergraduate Research Assistant. 

Russel 
Nwokolo

Undergraduate Research Assistant