Woogeun Rhee received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, in 2001. From 1997 to 2001, he was with Conexant Systems, Newport Beach, CA, USA. From 2001 to 2006, he was with IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. He was a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University, Korea, from August 2022 to February 2023. He is currently a Professor with the School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University, China. He has published more than 180 IEEE papers and holds 24 U.S. patents. He is an IEEE Fellow.

§ Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits (OJ-SSCS, 2024-2026)

§ IEEE Fellow Committee (2024-2025)

§ IEEE SSCS Region 10 Ex-Officio AdCom member (2020-), Members-at-Large (2024)

§ IEEE CASS BoG member as SSCS representative (2023-)

§ IEEE SSCS Chapters Steering Committee member (2021-2023)

§ IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2016-2017)

§ Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits (OJ-SSCS, 2021-2023, formerly O-JSSC, 2019-2020), IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC, 2012-2018), IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems Part-II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II, 2008-2009)

§ Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC, Special Issue in November 2012, November 2013, October 2022)

§ Steering Committee of IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC, 2022-)

§ Technical Program Committees of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC, 2012-2016), IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC, 2015-; sub-committee Chair (2020), Organization Committee (2021)), IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC, 2008-)

§ TPC Chair of IEEE A-SSCC (2021), TPC Co-Chair of IEEE A-SSCC (2020), TPC Co-Chair of ISOCC (2019)

§ Advanced Employee Award from Tsinghua University (校内先进工作者, 2012)

§ IBM Faculty Award from IBM, USA (2007)

Research Interests

§ Energy-efficient short-range transceivers for mobile IoT

§ Ultra-wideband (UWB) transceivers for secure wireless connectivity and fine ranging

§ Low-noise clocking and frequency generation for wireline and wireless systems

§ Mixed-signal circuits and systems

Ph.D. Thesis

Multi-bit delta-sigma modulation technique for fractional-N frequency synthesizers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Aug. 2000.

Teaching

§ Communication Systems and Circuits

§ PLL Design and Clock/Frequency Generation

Students

Publications

Address

School of Integrated Circuits, Rm. A307, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Tel: +8610-6279-4078

e-mail: wrhee@tsinghua.edu.cn