Donald Lie
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Donald Y.C. Lie (S’86-M’87-SM’00) received his B.S.E.E. degree from the National Taiwan University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (minor in Applied Physics) from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, in 1987, 1990 and 1995, respectively. He has held technical and managerial positions at companies such as Rockwell International, SiliconWave (now Qualcomm), IBM, Microtune Inc., SYS Technologies, and Dynamic Research Corporation (DRC). He holds the Keh-Shew Lu Regents Chair Associate Professorship (tenured) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX since 2007. Dr. Lie is also an Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). He is instrumental in bringing in multi-million dollars research funding and also designed real-world commercial communication products sold internationally. He has been a Visiting Lecturer to the ECE Department, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) since 2002-2007 where he taught upper-division and graduate-level classes and affiliated with UCSD’s Center of Wireless Communications and co-supervised Ph.D. students. He has authored and co-authored over 130 peer-reviewed technical papers and book chapters and holds 5 US patents with several pending. Dr. Lie has been serving on the Executive Committees of the IEEE Bipolar/BICMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), IEEE SiRF, and IEEE MWSCAS, and also serving on various IEEE Technical Program Committees such as RFIC Symp., PAWR, DCAS, VLSI-DAT, LiSSA, ASICON, etc. Dr. Lie has been awarded with the US NAVY SPAWAR SSC San Diego “Center Team Achievement Award”, Spring 2007; won 3 DRC Silver Awards of Excellence, 2005-2007; received IBM "FIRST" chairman patent award, 2001-2002 and Rockwell International’s “FIRST” engineering awards, 1996-1998. He has given plenary and keynote talks, many invited talks and short courses and workshops at IEEE conferences, companies, research institutes and universities. Dr. Lie and his students have won several Best Paper Award and Graduate Student Paper Awards in international conferences in 1994, 1995, 2006, 2008 (twice), 2010 (twice), 2011, and also won various prestigious scholarships. Dr. Lie was a Rotary International Scholar 1989-1990, and awarded with internship at Motorola Inc. sponsored by SRC (Semiconductor Research Corporation) at 1993-1994, and also at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, 1992-1993. Dr. Lie is serving as the Associate Editor of IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL), the Area Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal on Wireless and Optical Communications, and also on the Editorial Board for the i-manager’s Journal on Electrical Engineering. He was a Guest Editor of IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) in 2009, and also has served as a Reviewer for journals such as IEEE JSSC, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT), IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, Electronics Letters, IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, Journal of Applied Physics (JAP), IEEE Design & Test of Comp., JETTA, IBM J. of Research and Development, NSF and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) proposals, etc. He has consulted for several semiconductor IC design companies and a research institute. His professional research interests are: (1) ultralow-power and power-efficient RF/Analog integrated circuit (IC) design and System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design and test; and (2) interdisciplinary research on medical electronics, bioengineering, biosensors and biosignal processing.
Education:
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1995
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1990
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1987
Experience:
- K.S. Lu Regents Chair Associate Professor, ECE Dept., Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX (July 9, 07 - Present)
- Director, RFIC Design and Test, Dynamic Research Corp. (DRC) and also at SYS Technologies Inc., San Diego, CA (12/03-06/07)
- Director, RFIC Design and Applications, Microtune Inc., San Diego, CA (12/02-12/03)
- Visiting Lecturer, ECE Dept., University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (03/02-06/07)
- Advisory RFIC Design Engineer, Communications Research and Development Center (CRDC), IBM Inc., Encinitas, CA, (06/00-07/02)
Significant Publications:
- Ranked #21 as the most downloaded paper among all IEEE Explore 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)
- 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)
- “Highly-Efficient Monolithic Class E SiGe Power Amplifier Design at 900 and 2400MHz”, D.Y.C. Lie, J. Lopez, J.D. Popp, J.F. Rowland, G. Wang, G. Qin, and Z. Ma, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems – I (TCAS-I), 56, 7, pp. 1455-1466, July (2009)
- “Design of WiMAX/WiBRO Wideband RF Polar Transmitters with on-chip Power Amplifiers Using the Envelope-Tracking Technique”, Y. Li, J. Lopez, D.Y.C. Lie, K. Chen, S. Wu and T. Yang, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 2017-2020, May 24-27, Taipei, Taiwan (2009)
- "RF-SoC:" Integration Trends of On-Chip CMOS Power Amplifier (PA): Benefits of External PA vs. Integrated PA for Portable Wireless Communications”, D.Y.C. Lie, International Journal of Microwave Science and Technology, vol. 2010, Article ID 380108, pp. 1-7, (2010) http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmst/2010/380108.html
- 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)
- 2nd Place Winner for 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)
- "A Monolithic High-Efficiency 2.4 GHz 20 dBm SiGe BiCMOS Envelope Tracking OFDM Power Amplifier", F. Wang, D. Kimball, D.Y.C. Lie, P. Asbeck and L.E. Larson, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, 42, 6, pp. 1271-1281 (2007)
- "Design of Wide Bandwidth Hybrid Envelope Elimination and Restoration Power Amplifiers for Wideband OFDM Applications", F. Wang, D. Kimball, J. Popp, A. Yang, D.Y.C. Lie, P. Asbeck and L.E. Larson, IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 54, 12, pp. 4086-4099, Dec. (2006)
- Invited paper in the inaugural issue: "RF-SoC: Technology Enablers and Road Blocks for Single-Chip Wireless RF IC Design", D.Y.C. Lie and L.E. Larson, International Journal on Wireless and Optical Communications, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-23 (2003)
- IEEE journal front-cover special review article: "Doping and processing epitaxial GexSi1-x films on Si(100) by ion implantation for Si-based heterojunction devices applications," D.Y.C. Lie, IEEE J. Electron. Mater., 27, pp. 377-413 (1998)
Honors and Awards:
- Winner of SPAWAR SSC San Diego CENTER TEAM ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, Spring 2007
- Winner of 3 DRC Silver Awards of Excellence, 2005-2007
- IBM "FIRST" chairman patent award, 2001-2002
- Winner/Co-Winner Best Graduate Student Paper Awards, 1994, 2006, 2008 (twice), 2010
- Rockwell International's "FIRST" engineering awards, 1996-1998
Professional Service and Affiliations:
- Executive/Program committee member and/or Technical Program co-chair for various IEEE conferences such as BCTM, SiRF, VLSI-DAT, DCAS, SoC, MWSCAS conferences, etc.
- Delivered invited talks, plenary talk and short courses for several IEEE conferences such as IEEE BCTM08, ICSICT08, ICSICT06, ASICON07, VLSI-DAT06, RWS06, ICMMT2002, ISICDS01, etc.
- Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Sept. 2009
- Area Editor-in-Chief for International Journal on Wireless and Optical Communications
- IEEE Sr. member since 1999