Rabia Tugce Yazicigil

Rabia Tugce Yazicigil is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering at Boston University. She is also  a Visiting Scholar at MIT.

At Boston University, Yazicigil leads the Wireless Integrated Systems and Extreme Circuits Laboratory (WISE-Circuits Laboratory) which focuses on innovating integrated systems derived at the intersection of analog and radio frequency circuits, signal processing, security, and communications.

Her research interests are energy-efficient integrated circuits and systems, novel signal processing algorithms for future wireless communications, and security for internet of things. Her recent work on cryptographic “tag of everything” was featured in MIT News in February 2020. Additionally, in 2018, her postdoctoral research work on ultra-fast bit-level frequency hopping for physical-layer security was also featured in MIT News with additional press coverage in CNET, EurekAlert!, Engadget, and ElectronicsWeekly.com. She is leading the Wireless Integrated Systems and Extreme Circuits (WISE-Circuits) Laboratory since August 2018.

She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 2016. She received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2009, and the M.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland in 2011.

She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the “Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award” for her Ph.D. research on Compressive Sampling Applications in Rapid RF Spectrum Sensing (2016),  second place at the Bell Labs Future X Days Student Research Competition (2015), Analog Devices Inc. outstanding student designer award (2015), and 2014 Millman Teaching Assistant Award of Columbia University. She has presented her research work in several forums, most recently as an invited keynote at the 2020 Nature Symposium focused on the Biomimetic Sensors: Their use and potential in Medicine. She recently served as the Vice Chair of the Rising Stars 2020 workshop at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) and she is member of the 2015 MIT EECS Rising Stars cohort. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the EECS Department of MIT working with Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan from 2016 to 2018.