Yue Li

Ph.D., Associate Professor

IET Fellow

IEEE Senior Member, URSI Senior Member, CIE Senior Member

ACES Member, OSA Member,

Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Address: Room 8-302, Rohm Building, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Tel: +86-10-62798582

Email: lyee@tsinghua.edu.cn, lyee@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Biography [2024-8-7]

Yue Li received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. In June 2012, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. In December 2013, he was a Research Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore, in 2010, and at the Hawaii Center of Advanced Communication (HCAC), University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA, in 2012. Since January 2016, he has been with Tsinghua University, where he is an Assistant Professor. He has authored or coauthored over 260 journal papers and 50 international conference papers, and holds 30 granted Chinese patents. His current research interests include metamaterials, plasmonics, nanocircuits, and antennas.

He was the recipient of the Issac Koga Gold Medal from the URSI General Assembly in 2017 and the IEEE APS Leopold B. Felsen Research Grant in Electromagnetics in 2025. He also received Young Scientist Awards from PIERS 2019, ACES 2018, AT-RASC 2018, AP-RASC 2016, EMTS 2016, and URSI GASS 2014, as well as the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Beijing Municipality in 2013 and the Principal Scholarship of Tsinghua University in 2011. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, and Computer Applications in Engineering Education.

An academic interview form URSI is published in Radio Science Bulletin, the early career column.

Education

Ph. D.   2007-2012, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

B. S.     2003-2007, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China
Academic Experience

12/2017-now Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University

01/2016-12/2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University

01/2014-12/2015 Visiting  Scholar, Departments of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
06/2012-12/2015 Postdoc, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
07/2012-10/2012 Visiting Scholar, Hawaii Center of Advanced Communication, University of Hawaii
09/2010-12/2010 Visiting Student, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR
Awards and Honors

*  Young Scientists Fund (Type A)：National Natural Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholar, 2026

* IEEE AP-S Industry Paper Top 10 Finalists, 2026 (Supervised student: Kaifeng Li)

* Elesvier Highly Cited Researcher, 2025

* IEEE APS Leopold B. Felsen Research Grant in Electromagnetics, 2025

* NCANT Best Paper Award, 2025 (Supervised student: Shuyu Wang) 

* Elesvier Highly Cited Researcher, 2024

* CSQRWC Best Student Paper Award, 2024 (Supervised student: Pengyu Fu) 

* ICMMT Best Student Paper Award, 2024 (Supervised student: Wendi Yan) 

* iWAT Best Student Paper Award, 2024 (Supervised student: Xu Qin) 

* Elesvier Highly Cited Researcher, 2023

* NCANT Best Paper Award, 2023 (Supervised student: Mingzhe Hu) 

* Elesvier Highly Cited Researcher, 2022

* ISAPE Best Student Paper Award, 2021 (Supervised student: Yongjian Zhang) 

* IWEM Best Student Paper Award, 2021 (Supervised student: Pengyu Fu) 

* PIERS Best Student Paper Award, 2021 (Supervised student: Yongjian Zhang) 

* A3 Metamaterials Best Student Poster Award, 2021 (Supervised student: Ziheng Zhou) 

* National Natural Science Foundation of China for Excellent Young Scholar, 2020

* ICMMT Best Student Paper Award, 2020 (Supervised student: Yuefeng Hou)

* UCMMT Best Student Paper Award, 2020 (Supervised student: Hao Li)

* APCAP Best Student Paper Award, 2020 (Supervised student: Yongjian Zhang) 

* Elesvier Highly Cited Researcher, 2020

* PIERS Young Scientist Award, 2019

* Beijing Nova Program, 2019

* ISAP Best Paper Award, 2019 (Supervised student: Ziheng Zhou)

* NCANT Best Paper Award, 2019 (Supervised student: Wangyu Sun) 

* URSI Commission B EMTS Young Scientist Award, 2019

* ACES Young Scientist Award, 2018

* CSQRWC Best Student Paper Award, 2018 (Supervised student: Peiqin Liu) 

* NCMMW Best Student Paper Award, 2018 (Supervised student: Yuefeng Hou) 

* URSI AT-RASC Young Scientist Award, 2018

* Fellowship of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

* Second Prize of Science and Technology Award of China Institute of Communications, 2017

* APCAP Best Student Paper Award, 2017 (Supervised student: Peiqin Liu) 

* NCANT Best Paper Award, 2017 (Supervised student: Peiqin Liu)

* URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal, 2017

* NCMMW Best Student Paper Award, 2017 (Supervised student: Le Chang) 

* ISAPE Best Paper Award, 2016 (Supervised student: Yuefeng Hou)

* URSI AP-RASC Young Scientist Award, 2016

* ICMMT Best Student Paper Award, 2016 (Supervised student: Kai Zhang) 

* URSI Commission B EMTS Young Scientist Award, 2016

* URSI General Assembly Young Scientist Award, 2014

* Outstanding Postdoc Award, Tsinghua University, 2014

* Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Beijing,Municipality, 2013

* Postdoctoral Supporting Plan, Tsinghua University, 2012

* Excellent Junior Researcher Award, Tsinghua University, 2012

* First Class Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, Tsinghua University, 2012

* Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Beijing Municipality, 2012

* Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Tsinghua University, 2012

* Principal Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2011

—Highest honor in Tsinghua University, (5 awardees from over 20,000 graduate students each year) 

* Best Academic Rookie Award, Ministry of Education, 2010

* Second Class Scholarship of Guanghua, Tsinghua University, 2009

* Top Class Scholarship of Toshiba, Tsinghua University, 2008

* Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award, Zhejiang Province, 2007

* Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award, Zhejiang University, 2007

* Top Class Scholarship, Zhejiang University, 2004, 2005, 2006

Teaching

  • 30230202, Principles of Antennas, since 2017;

  • 70230343, Modern Antennas Theory, since 2018;