Woogeun Rhee received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, in 2001. From 1997 to 2001, he was with Conexant Systems, Newport Beach, CA, USA. From 2001 to 2006, he was with IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. He was a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University, Korea, from August 2022 to February 2023. He was a Professor from August 2006 to July 2025, and has been an Adjunct Chair Professor since August 2025 with the School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University, China. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Semiconductor Convergence Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea. He has published more than 180 IEEE papers and holds 24 U.S. patents. He is an IEEE Fellow.
§ Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits (OJ-SSCS, 2024-2026)
§ IEEE Fellow Committee (2024-2025)
§ IEEE SSCS Members-at-Large (2022-2024), Region 10 Representative AdCom member (2020-)
§ IEEE CASS BoG member as SSCS representative (2023-)
§ IEEE SSCS Chapters Steering Committee member (2021-2023)
§ IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2016-2017)
§ Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Solid-State Circuits (OJ-SSCS, 2021-2023, formerly O-JSSC, 2019-2020), IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC, 2012-2018), IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems Part-II: Express Briefs (TCAS-II, 2008-2009)
§ Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC, Special Issue in November 2012, November 2013, October 2022)
§ Steering Committee of IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC, 2022-)
§ Technical Program Committees of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC, 2012-2016), IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC, 2015-; sub-committee Chair (2020), Organization Committee (2021)), IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC, 2008-)
§ TPC Chair of IEEE A-SSCC (2021), TPC Co-Chair of IEEE A-SSCC (2020), TPC Co-Chair of ISOCC (2019)
§ Advanced Employee Award from Tsinghua University ( 2012)
§ IBM Faculty Award from IBM, USA (2007)
Research Interests
§ Energy-efficient short-range transceivers for mobile IoT
§ Ultra-wideband (UWB) transceivers for secure wireless connectivity and fine ranging
§ Low-noise clocking and frequency generation for wireline and wireless systems
§ Mixed-signal circuits and systems
Publications
§ Phase-Locked Loops: System Perspectives and Circuit Design Aspects, W. Rhee and Z. Yu, Wiley-IEEE Press, Jan. 2024.
§ Phase-Locked Frequency Generation and Clocking: Architectures and Circuits for Modern Wireless and Wireline Systems, Edited by W. Rhee, The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), June 2020.
§ L. Feng, Q. Liao, L. Kuang, J. Zhao, W. Rhee, and Z. Wang, "A 0.6-V fully-integrated BLE transmitter in 65-nm CMOS using a common-mode-ripple-cancelled hybrid PLL and a duty-cycle-controlled class-E/F2 PA achieving 25% system efficiency at 0 dBm," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Early Access, 2025.
§ Y. Nie, W. Rhee, and Z. Wang, "A 27.9-mW 802.15.4/4z 1T2R transceiver with FIR-embedded quadrature hybrid correlation and AoA localization," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Early Access, 2025.
§ X. Ji, J. Zhao, W. Rhee, and Z. Wang, "A polar phase-tracking receiver with two-point injection technique," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), no. 5, vol. 60, pp. 1529-1540, May 2025.
§ L. Feng, X. Ji, L. Kuang, Q. Liao, S. Han, J. Zhao, W. Rhee, and Z. Wang, "An ultra-low-voltage bias-current-free fractional-N hybrid PLL with voltage-mode phase detection and interpolation," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), no. 1, vol. 60, pp. 85-98, Jan. 2025.
§ L. Lin, B. Wang, W. Rhee, and Z. Wang, "A 7.5-GHz frequency-hopping CDMA UWB transceiver for secure multi-sensor connectivity," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II, vol. 69. pp. 163-167, Jan., 2025.
§ J. Zhao, W. Rhee, and Z. Wang, "A wide tracking range heterodyne phase-tracking receiver with 1-bit phase-domain demodulation," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, vol. 72, pp. 6459-6469, Dec. 2024.
§ Y. Nie, W. Rhee, and Z. Wang, "An IEEE 802.15.4/4z coherent quadrature hybrid correlation UWB receiver in 65-nm CMOS," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 59, pp. 2378-2389, Aug. 2024.
§ B. Zhou, Y. Li, Z. Wang, C. Wang, W. Rhee, and Z. Wang, "A low-complexity FM-UWB transmitter with digital reuse and analog stacking," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 59, pp. 2121-2132, July 2024.
§ B. Wang, W. Rhee, and Z. Wang, "A 65-nm sub-10-mW communication/ranging quadrature uncertain-IF IR-UWB transceiver with twin-OOK modulation," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 59, pp. 1656-1667, June 2024.
§ B. Wang, C. Ding, Y. Nie, W. Rhee, and Z. Wang, "A 0.14-nJ/b 200-Mb/s 2.7-3.5-GHz quasi-balanced FSK transceiver with PLL-based modulation and sideband energy detection," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems I, vol. 71, pp. 1590-1601, Apr. 2024.
§ L. Feng, W. Rhee, and Z. Wang, "A DTC-free fractional-N BBPLL with FIR-embedded injection-locked-oscillator-based phase-domain lowpass filter," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), vol. 59, pp. 728-739, Mar. 2024.
Articles
§ "In Step With Woogeun Rhee: Benefiting Humanity With Global Reach," IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 97-99, Jan. 2022.
Address
School of Integrated Circuits, Rm. A307, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Tel: +8610-6279-4078
e-mail: wrhee@tsinghua.edu.cn
