Prof. YAN Xu (閆旭)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong.

特聘副研究员，香港城市大学深圳研究院

CMOS/III-V-based transceiver and building block RF/MMIC designs, micro-system integration, cryogenic ICs for quantum systems, and AI-powered IC design automation algorithms.

Dr. YAN Xu received the B.S. degree in electronic information engineering (with the highest honor) from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2016, the M.Eng. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2019, and Ph.D. degree in RF/MMIC Design from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2023. Before joining CityUHK, he was an assistant director of Anhui Transilica Microelectronics Co. Ltd. (ATM) from 2017 to 2018 and a research fellow and MMIC design team leader at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore from 2023 to 2024. Prof. YAN has engaged more than 10 times in tape-out on GaAs/GaN/CMOS/CMOS RF-SOI processes and authored or co-authored more than 40 journal articles and conference papers. 

1. State key laboratory of radio frequency heterogeneous integration open scientific research program, “Research on layout optimization algorithms for broadband GaN power amplifier based on space mapping,” 2025~2026, CNY 150 K, PI (项目负责人).

2. National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore, “Integration of Electrically Driven Plasmonic Components in High-Speed Electronics,” 2017~2023, SGD 7.5 M, Leader (课题负责人).

3. National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore, “3D City Model Enabled Urban Canyon Mapping for Multi-constellation GNSS,” 2018~2021, SGD 338.4 K, Leader (课题负责人).

4. NUSRI (Suzhou) Basic Research Project, “GaN-based MMICs for 5G applications,” 2022~2024, CNY 3.5 M, Leader (课题负责人).

5. NUSRI (Suzhou) Basic Research Project, “Wideband MMICs with GaAs pHEMT process,” 2021~2023, CNY 2.0 M, Leader (课题负责人).

6. Research Collaboration Project between NUS and HUAWEI, “Wearable SIL Radar-based Pulse Waveform Detection”, 2021~2023, 200 K SGD, Leader (课题负责人).

1. EE5425 Fundamentals of RF Circuit Engineering, Master 1st Year, Tutorial and Clinic Tutor, Project Supervisor, 2024, CityUHK.

2. TEE2011 Engineering Electromagnetics, Bachelor 2nd Year, Tutorial and Clinic Tutor, 2021~2023, NUS.

2. EE2033/TEE2033 Integrated Systems, Bachelor 2nd Year, Lab Mentor and Project Supervisor, 2019~2023 NUS.

3. TEE4101 RF Communications, Bachelor 4th Year, Tutorial Tutor and Project Supervisor, 2022 NUS.

4. EE4104 Microwave Circuit and Devices, Bachelor 4th Year, Tutorial and Clinic Tutor, Project Supervisor, 2021~2022 NUS.

5. ESB5311 Integrated Circuits Physical Design, Master 1st Year, Lab Mentor, 2018, USTC.

6. ESB5205 Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits Design, Master 1st Year, Lab Mentor and Project Supervisor, 2017, USTC.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7905-185X

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?hl=en&user=XWyffQYAAAAJ