Director

Prof. C. Patrick Yue is currently a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Starting in July 2010, he is on sabbatical leave to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a Visiting Professor in Electronic and Computer Engineering. His research interests include high-speed wireless and wireline circuit design, RF and mm-wave device modeling, and energy-efficient interface circuits for sensors.

Based on his PhD work at Stanford University, in 1998, he co-founded Atheros Communications (NSDQ: ATHR) and contributed to the deployment of the world's first 802.11a 5-GHz CMOS RF transceiver. In 2002, he joined anther silicon valley startup Aeluros (acquired by Netlogic, NSDQ: NETL) to develop 10-Gbps serial link products focusing on signal integrity issues at the chip, package and PCB interface. After five years of industry experience, Dr. Yue returned to academia to join Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, where he taught between 2003 and 2006 as an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2006, Prof. Yue moved back to CA and started teaching at UCSB. Prof. Yue remains passionate about technology entrepreneurship and is an active advisor to a number of IC startups based in China.

Prof. Yue has contributed to more than 70 peer-reviewed technical papers and two book chapters. He currently holds 13 US patents of which most are employed in actual products. He has earned the distinction of being a co-recipient of an International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Best Student Paper Award and being the author of one of the all-time most cited paper in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He has served on various conference committees including A-SSCC, ISLPED, RFIC Symposium and VLSI-DAT. He has been a member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society VLSI Technology and Circuits Committee and a Senior Member of IEEE since 2005.

Affiliated Faculty

Professor York is currently a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research efforts cover a wide spectrum of high frequency electronics from novel electronic materials and high-speed devices to complex circuits and sub-systems.  UCSB has a very strong program in compound semiconductor materials and devices, and most of our research efforts make use of extensive infrastructure and collaborations in this area.  In general, his work is aimed at developing enabling materials and device technologies and new circuit architectures  for making high frequency circuits faster, more efficient, with higher power  and increased functionality, as compared with existing state-of-the-art.