Ruochen Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
His research focuses on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) that advance chip-scale acoustic and electromagnetic components for microwave signal processing, sensing, and computing. His group develops thin-film piezoelectric platforms and RF front-end microsystems that push operating frequency and transduction efficiency while tightly integrating acoustics with electronics. Complementary thrusts include ultrasound transducers and multiphysics microsystems that couple acoustics with optics and magnetics, along with engineered nonlinearity/nonreciprocity, for biomedical, quantum, and power-conversion applications.
He received the IEEE MTT-S Microwave Award in 2022, the IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award in 2024, and the NSF Career Award in 2024. Along with his students, he received Best Student Paper Awards at IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS) 2017 and 2023, IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) 2018 and 2022, IEEE International Conference on Microwave Acoustics & Mechanics (IC-MAM) 2022, and third-place Best Student Paper Award at IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2024. He received the Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award in 2024 from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, and the IEEE Journal of Microwaves.
He received the B.E. degree with honors in microelectronics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2014, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, in 2017 and 2019, respectively.
