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 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, and also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), supervising M.D./Ph.D students. He is instrumental in bringing in multi-million dollars research funding and also designed real-world commercial communication products sold internationally. He was a Visiting Lecturer to the ECE Department, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) during 2002-2007 where he taught upper-division and graduate-level classes and affiliated with UCSD’s Center of Wireless Communications (CWC) and co-supervised Ph.D. students. Dr. Lie is serving on the Executive/Steering/Advisory Committees of the IEEE RFIC Symp., SiRF, MWSCAS, Texas Wireless Symp., and VLSI-TSA. He is also serving as the General Chair for IEEE RFIC Symp.’23, organizing committee member (OCM) of IEEE ISCAS’22 and also as a TPC member for IEEE ISCAS, BIOCAS, RWS, PAWR, SiRF, etc. Dr. Lie was the General Chair of IEEE VLSI-DAT 2015-2017, an OCM of the Global Summit on Clinical Research & Biomarkers Conf., 2017, General Chair of IEEE BCTM 2014, SiRF 2014, etc. Dr. Lie has been awarded with many research awards, such as the Texas Tech University’s Barney E. Rushing, Jr., Faculty Distinguished Research Award, 2023; US NAVY SPAWAR SSC San Diego “Center Team Achievement Award”, Spring 2007, won 3 DRC Silver Awards of Excellence, 2005-2007; IBM “FIRST” chairman patent awards, 2001-2002 and Rockwell International’s “FIRST” engineering awards, 1996-1998, etc. He and his students have won 22 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, 2021 (twice), 2022, and 2023. Professor Lie’s students have also received the prestigious sole 1st Place of Texas Tech University Most Outstanding Master Thesis Award held biennually in the Category of Math, Science, and Engineering for 2016 and 2020, respectively. Dr. Lie has long served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL) 2010-2017; an Editorial Board Member for Biosensors since Nov. 2016 and Special Issue Editor, Biosensors in 2017, 2018 and 2021, 2022; Guest Editor, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2017; Guest Editor of IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 2017, Associate Editor-in-Chief for the Open Journal of Applied Biosensor since 2012; Special Topic Editor for IEEE MWCL in June 2012; Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2009, etc. Dr. Lie has consulted for several IC design companies and an international research institute, and also served on several patents and trade secrets litigation cases with large global business litigation firms. Dr. Lie has co-founded the NoiseFigure Research Inc. with his former PhD student Dr. Jerry Lopez since 2009, focusing on state-of-the-art RF-SoC technologies and the company has won numerous awards and direct contracts with over 50 employee. Dr. Lie has authored/coauthored about 260 peer-reviewed technical papers and book chapters and holds seven U.S. patents with several pending. Dr. Lie’s group has won 5 DARPA subcontracts and 1 DARPA prime contract/grant at TTU and 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 months, respectively). Dr. Lie has been awarded with the AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) at Dayton, Ohio, 2018, and also appointed as a Chair Professor, College of Electrical Engineering, National Yangming Chiao-Tung University (NYCU), Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, since 2018. Dr. Lie has been an author of the IEEE International Network Generations Roadmap (INGR) 5G Hardware Roadmap as a member of the Technical Working Group (TWG). Dr. Lie is listed among the top 2% most-cited researchers in the world by Stanford University (https://today.ttu.edu/posts/2021/12/Stories/Texas-Tech-Faculty-Members-Rank-Among-Top-Global-Researchers). He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Senior Chapter Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and member of Sigma Xi and ASCO (American Soc. of Clinical Oncology), IASLC, etc. His research interests are: (1) power-efficient RF/Analog/B5G/6G circuits and systems design in some most advanced semiconductor IC technologies, and (2) interdisciplinary/clinical medical electronics and biomedical research, such as biosensors design, AI in biosensors, fall prevention, gait analysis and monitoring, and oncology. More info can be found at https://rfsocttu.com/

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 modulators …Read More

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 …Read More

Team Members

Some team members are listed below.

Dr. Jonathan Young

MD. Student
PhD in molecular biology, UT Austin TTUHSC

 Jill Mayeda

Research Assistant/Ph.D. Student jill.mayeda@ttu.edu Research interest: RFIC, high-efficient mm-Wave power amplifier Design, 5G/6G Circuits and Systems Design

John Hayes

Research Assistant/ Masters jp.hayes@ttu.edu Research interest: interdisciplinary research on medical electronics, biosensors, and biosignal processing

Yves T.

Research Assistant/Masters yves.tchatchoua@ttu.edu Research Interest: interdisciplinary research on medical electronics, biosensors, and biosignal processing

Gokul Somasundaram

Master/PhD Student
Research interest:  DPD for linear RF & mm-Wave power amplifier design

Supriya Ramaswamy

Research Assistant/Masters supriya.ramaswamy@ttu.edu Research interest: interdisciplinary research on medical electronics, biosensors, and biosignal processing

Clint Sweeney

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

Yang Liu

Master Student
Research interest:
SDR, Noncontact vital signs system; phased array antenna testing and design

Kayala Hicks

Undergrad. Student
Research interest: 
Biosensor, NCVS

Cho-Hao (Joe) Yu

PhD Student, Taiwan MOE Scholarship
5G Network Delay/Sensor research

Ouyang Liang-Wei

Graduate Student; NCVS/sensor, Circuits and Systems research

John Li 

Undergrad. student. RF circuits and system research