Best Paper / Graduate Student Awards

Dr. Lie and his students have won 20 Best Graduate Student Paper Awards and Best Paper Awards in international conferences for 1994, 1995, 2006, 2008 (twice), 2010 (thrice), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 (twice), 2020 and also 2021 (twice), and the biannual “Texas Tech University Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Awards; 1st Place” twice in 2016 and 2020, respectively. Some of them are listed below.  Dr. Lie’s group also published 3 “Most Downloaded Top 100 Papers” in IEEE Xplore  among millions of publications in Sept. 2012, June 2012, and Sept. 2009 (ranked #80, #88, and #21 for these 3 months, respectively).


1. Best Student Poster Paper Award Winner; 2nd Place: “Broadband High-Efficiency Mm-Wave 24-42.5 GHz SiGe PA Design Using Stacked vs. Cascaded Topologies”, J. Tsay, J. C. Mayeda, J. Lopez and D.Y.C. Lie, Proc. IEEE Texas Symp. on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (TSWMCS), Waco, TX, March 28-29, (2019)
2. Best Poster Paper Award Winner; “Downstream Signaling Cascades for EGFR (Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor) Mutations: The Biomarkers of Acquired Resistance Under Tyrosine-Kinase Inhibitors (TKI) Treatment for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)”, P.E. Lie, T.Q. Nguyen, D.Y.C. Lieand L. Tijani, International Conference & Expo on HIV & AIDS and Global Summit on Clinical Research & Biomarkers Conference, Aug. 21-23, Dallas, TX, USA (2017)
3. Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Awards; 1st Place: “The Design of a Robust and Intelligent Phased Array Non-Contact Vital Signs (NCVS) Sensor System”, Travis Jordan Hall, has been awarded with the only First place Master’s Thesis Winner for 2016 in the category of Math, Physical Sciences and Engineering at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, June 3, (2016)
4. Best Student Poster Paper Award Winner; 3rd Place: “A Study on Linearity vs. LTE 16QAM Signal Bandwidth and Supply Voltage for High-Efficiency SiGe Power Amplifier Design with CW Load-Pull”, J. Tsay, J. Lopez, J. C. Mayeda, T. Hall, B.T. Nukala and D.Y.C. Lie, accepted and to appear at the Proc. IEEE Texas Symp. on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (TSWMCS), Waco, TX, March 31-April 1, (2016)
5. Best Paper Award Winner: “Excellent Wireless Power Transfer Unto Tiny Coil Using 4-Coil Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) for Implantable Devices and Biosensors”, B.T. Nukala, D.Y.C. Lie, J. Lopez and Tam Q. Nguyen, Proc. 18th ICRTET-2015 International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering and Technology, Dec. 26, pp. 26-29, Taipei, Taiwan 2015
6. Best Paper Award Winner: “A Wideband Envelope Modulator Design for Envelope-Tracking SiGe Power Amplifier (ET-PA) for Broadband Wireless Applications”, Y. Li, J. Lopez and D.Y.C. Lie, Proc. IEEE 10th Int’l Conf. Wireless & Mobile Comm. (ICWMC 2014), pp.76-83, Seville, Spain, June 22-26 (2014)
7. Best Graduate Student Paper Award Winner (1st Place): “A SiGe Bipolar-MOSFET Cascode Power Amplifier with Improved Linearity for LTE Applications”, R. Wu, J. Lopez, Y. Li and D.Y.C. Lie, Proc. IEEE Topical Conference on RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless and Radio Applications (PAWR’13), pp. 22-24, Austin, TX, Jan. 23-25 (2013)
8. Best Paper Award Winner: “A Monolithic 1.85GHz 2-stage SiGe Power Amplifier with Envelope Tracking for Improved Linear Power and Efficiency”, R. Wu, Y. Li, J. Lopez, and D.Y.C. Lie, Tech. Dig. IEEE VLSI-DAT Conference, pp. 1-4, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, April 25-27 (2012)
9. Winner of the 2nd Place Best Student Paper Award: “A Broadband SiGe Power Amplifier in an Efficient Polar Transmitter Using Envelope-Tracking for Mobile WiMAX”, Y. Li, J. Lopez, D.Y.C. Lie, K. Chen, S. Wu, and T.Y. Yang, Proc. 11th IEEE Topical Conference on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems, pp.137-140, Phoenix, AZ, Jan. 17-20 (2011)
10. Best Paper Award Winner: “Structural Verification of WLAN System using Simple BiSTs”, D. Webster, J. Cavazos, D. Guy, P. Patchen, and D.Y.C. Lie, Proc. IEEE Sixth Dallas Circuits and Systems Workshop (DCAS), pp. 1-4, Oct. 17-18, Dallas (2010)
11. Best Graduate Student Paper Award Winner: “Efficiency Enhancement and Linearity Trade-Offs for Cascode vs. Common-Emitter SiGe Power Amplifiers in WiMAX Polar Transmitters”, Y. Li, J. Lopez, D.Y.C. Lie, K.C.J. Chen, S. Wu and T.Y. Yang, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 1915-1918, May 30 – June 2, Paris, France (2010)
12. Best Paper in Poster Session: “Microwave Noncontact Measurement of Pulse Wave Velocity for Healthcare Applications”, L. Li, C. Li and D.Y.C. Lie, Proc. IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), pp. 1-5, Melbourne Beach , Florida, April 12-13 (2010)
13. Best Student Paper Award Winner: “A Novel RF Phase Error Built-in-Self-Test for GSM”, D. Webster, R. Hudgens, L. Phan, O. Eliezer, and D.Y.C. Lie, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology (ICSICT), Beijing, pp. 2075-2078, Oct. 20-23 (2008)
14. 2nd Place Winner for Best Student Paper Competition: “Impact of Power Cell Design on RF Performance of CE and CB SiGe Power HBTs”, G. Qin, Z. Ma, J. Lopez, and D.Y.C. Lie, IEEE Topical Meeting on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF’08), pp. 66-69, January 23-25, Orlando, FL, USA (2008)
15. 3nd Place Winner for Student Paper Competition: “A Low-Voltage 12GHz VCO in 0.13mm CMOS for OFDM Applications”, Yiping Han, L. E. Larson and D.Y.C. Lie, Dig. IEEE SiRF conference, pp. 379-382, San Diego, Jan. 18-20, CA (2006)
16. Student Paper Contest Finalist “Solid phase epitaxial regrowth and dopant activation of arsenic-implanted metastable pseudomorphic Ge0.08Si0.92 and Ge0.16Si0.84 on Si(100),” D.Y.C. Lie, J.H. Song, M-A. Nicolet, N.D. Theodore, J. Candelaria, S.G. Thomas, M.O. Tanner, and K.L. Wang, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 379, 467 (1995)
17. Student Paper Contest Award Winner “Steady-state versus rapid-thermal annealing of phosphorus implanted pseudomorphic Si(100)/Ge0.12Si0.88,” D.Y.C. Lie, J.H. Song, N.D. Theodore, F. Eisen, M-A. Nicolet, T.K. Carns, and K.L. Wang, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 342, 51 (1994)

Most Downloaded Top 100 Papers in IEEE Xplore
Dr. Lie’s group has won published three most downloaded TOP 100 papers in the IEEE Xplore™ among millions of publications in Sept. 2012, June 2012, and Sept. 2009 (ranked #80, #88, and #21 for these 3 months, respectively) as shown below. Dr. Lie has authored/coauthored about 190 peer-reviewed technical papers and book chapters and holds seven U.S. patents.
1. Ranked #80 among the most downloaded TOP 100 papers on all IEEE Xplore over 2+ million publications in Sept., 2012: “Design of High Efficiency Monolithic Power Amplifier With Envelope-Tracking and Transistor Resizing for Broadband Wireless Applications”, Y. Li, J. Lopez, C. Schecht, R. Wu and D.Y.C. Lie, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 47, 9, pp. 2007-2018, Sept. (2012)
2. Ranked #88 as the most downloaded paper among all IEEE Xplore over 2+ million publications in June, 2012: “A Fully Monolithic BiCMOS Envelope-Tracking Power Amplifier with On-Chip Transformer for Broadband Wireless Applications”, Y. Li, J. Lopez, R. Wu and D.Y.C. Lie, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL), vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 288-290, June (2012)
3. Ranked #21 as the most downloaded paper among all IEEE Xplore over 2+ million publications in Sept., 2009: “Design of Highly-Efficient Wideband RF Polar Transmitters Using the Envelope-Tracking Technique”, J. Lopez, Y. Li, D.Y.C. Lie, J.D. Popp, K. Chen, S. Wu, T. Yang and J-K. Ma, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, 44, 9, pp. 2276-2294, Sept. (2009)