Yingying Fan

Pronouns: She/her/hers

Assistant Professor

Electrical & Systems Engineering

Office
Green Hall, room 2156

Education

PhD, Rice University, 2024
MS, University of Michigan, 2019
BS, Southeast University, 2017

Research areas

Expertise

Analog and RF integrated circuits for emerging sensing and communication applications, enabling new technologies for healthcare and beyond

Research

Yingying Fan's research focuses on analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuits and systems for emerging sensing and communication applications, particularly those involving biosensors, bio-actuators, and biology-electronics hybrid systems, with the goal of advancing disease diagnosis, improving treatments, and enabling intelligent human–robot/computer interaction.

Biography

Yingying Fan joined the Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis as an assistant professor in August 2025. She completed her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University in Dec 2024 with Ralph Budd Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis in the School of Engineering. She has been recognized with numerous prestigious honors, including 2024 EECS Rising Star by MIT’s EECS, 2024 Solid-State Circuits Society Rising Star, 2024 Circuits and Systems Society Pre-Doctoral Grant, 2022 SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award, and the 2021 Microwave Theory and Technology Society Graduate Fellowship Award for Medical Applications.