Rate My Professor Kaiyuan Yang

Rice University

Engineering Computer Science Health Science Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Biomedical Engineering Bioengineering Electronics Cyber Security Machine Learning

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5.08/20/2025

Inspires a passion for knowledge and growth.

5.03/31/2025

Always supportive and inspiring to all.

4.02/27/2025

Encourages students to think independently.

5.02/5/2025

Your ability to make complex topics understandable and your willingness to collaborate with students made this course unforgettable. Thank you!

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About Kaiyuan

Kaiyuan Yang is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Engineering faculty at Rice University, where he leads the Secure and Intelligent Micro-Systems (SIMS) Lab. He received his B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2012, M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2014, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2017. Joining the Rice faculty in 2017, Yang's research specializes in low-power integrated circuits and system design for bioelectronics, hardware security, and mixed-signal/in-memory computing. The SIMS Lab develops innovative analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuit and system designs to advance energy efficiency and performance in miniaturized microsystems powered by tiny or no batteries, enabling applications in ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Everything, and biomedical implants and wearables. His work addresses hardware-level challenges in security and machine learning through cross-layer optimizations spanning devices, circuits, architecture, and algorithms.