The SSCS DL Program provides experts in the Society’s areas of interest to speak at chapter meetings and regional seminars. Our lecturers, who serve for overlapping two-year terms, are deeply knowledgeable and excellent communicators. Their range of topics focuses on current IC activities, such as technology direction; novel devices, memories, and radio technology; high-speed and precision data converters; wireline and on-chip communication; low-noise clocking, and low power design. I encourage SSCS chapters to benefit from our DLs’ expertise. I also wish to thank our emeritus DLs for their service. Please click on the “Education” tab on the top menu bar to see a list of SSCS distinguished lecturers and details on how to arrange a DL visit.
Rabia Tugce Yazicigil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University and a Network Faculty member at Sabanci University. She was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and received her Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 2016. Her research lies at the intersection of integrated circuits, biosensing, signal processing, hardware security, and wireless communications, with a focus on system-level innovations for future energy-constrained applications.
Dr. Yazicigil has received numerous honors, including the NSF CAREER Award (2024), the Boston University College of Engineering Early Career Excellence in Research Award (2024), the Catalyst Foundation Award (2021), the BU ENG Dean’s Catalyst Award (2021), and the Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award for her Ph.D. work (2016).
She currently serves as Chair of the Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Women-in-Circuits Committee and was selected as a member of the 2015 MIT EECS Rising Stars cohort. She is an IEEE SSCS and CASS Distinguished Lecturer for the 2024–2026 term, was elected to the IEEE SSCS Administrative Committee as a Member-at-Large in 2024, and currently serves as Chair of the IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecture Program. In 2024, she was also selected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) U.S. Frontiers of Engineering cohort.
Dr. Yazicigil has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence, and she is a Technical Program Committee member of IEEE RFIC.
