Rabia Tugce Yazicigil

Assistant Professor

Boston University

Rising Stars year of participation: 2024
Bio

Rabia Tugce Yazicigil is an Assistant Professor of ECE Department at Boston University and a Network Faculty at Sabanci University. She was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and received her Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 2016. Her research interests lie at the interface of integrated circuits, bio-sensing, signal processing, security, and wireless communications to innovate system-level solutions for future energy constrained applications. She has received numerous awards, including the NSF CAREER Award (2024), Early Career Excellence in Research Award for the Boston University College of Engineering (2024), the Catalyst Foundation Award (2021), Boston University ENG Dean Catalyst Award (2021), and “Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award” for her Ph.D. research (2016). Dr. Yazicigil is an active member of the Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Women-in-Circuits committee and is a member of the 2015 MIT EECS Rising Stars cohort. She was selected as an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer for the 2024-2026 term and elected to the IEEE SSCS AdCom as a Member-at-Large in 2024. She was selected as a member of the 2024 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) cohort. She serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (TCAS-I) and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence (TCASAI). Additionally, she is the Workshop Co-Chair of the IEEE ESSERC 2024, and a Technical Program Committee member of the IEEE ISSCC, RFIC, and DAC.