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Ruochen Lu is an Assistant Professor at the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and the advancement of chip-scale acoustic electromagnetic components. He is engaged in microwave signal processing, sensing, and computing. His group is developing thin-film piezoelectric platforms for RF front-end microsystems that enhance operating frequency and transduction efficiency through the integrated design of acoustics and electronics. Additionally, Ruochen is exploring ultrasound transducers and multiphysics microsystems that combine acoustics, optics, and magnetics for engineered nonlinearity and nonreciprocity, with applications in biomedical, quantum, and power-conversion domains. Ruochen has received various awards such as the IEEE MTT-S Microwave Award in 2022 and the IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award in 2024. He has also earned the NSF Career Award in 2024 and several Student Paper Awards over the years. He actively contributes as an associate editor for several reputable journals. Ruochen earned his B.E. degree in microelectronics with honors from Tsinghua University in 2014 and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017 and 2019, respectively.
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