Prof. Jiao serves as the Director of Advanced Technology Paternships and a Faculty Fellow of the Chipshub project funded by National Science Foundation (NSF). The vision of the project is "Chip design for every student, everywhere!" (Aug. 2025)
Our recent work was selected as a featured article on the home page of IEEE Trans. Antennas and Propagation website. Fast, large-scale electromagnetic simulations are crucial for addressing complex scientific and engineering challenges. Traditional methods in 3-D unstructured meshes require solving a system matrix, which can be computationally expensive. This paper eliminates such a need, and also reduces a 3-D volumetric domain to an assembly of 2-D patches to solve. (May 2025)
Runwei Zhou won a Best Student Paper Award from the 2026 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium (AP-S) held in Detroit, MI in July. His paper is titled "Nullspace-Free Finite-Element Method for Robust Full-Wave Analysis Across Frequencies and Scales". This year, 150 papers were submitted to the student paper competition. Congratulations! (July 2026)
Prof. Jiao delivered a keynote speech titled "ML-Assisted Multiphysics Design Automation for Heterogeneous Integration" in the IEEE MTT-S Latin America Microwave Conference (LAMC) (Jan. 2025), and a keynote speech titled "Multiscale and Multiphysics Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of 3-D Heterogeneously Integrated Systems" in the 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO) (Aug. 2024).
Prof. Jiao is Purdue PI of the Artificial Intelligence Driven RF Integrated Circuit Design Enablement (AIDRFIC) program, the first National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) R&D Jump Start project. She will co-lead the Thrust of EDA tool development and integration in the UT-led team on the project titled GENIE-RFIC: Generative ENgine for Intelligent and Expedited RFIC Design. (May 2025)
Rapid-HI Design Institute is part of DARPA's Next Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) Program led by UT's Texas Institute for Electronics. The NGMM program intends to pioneer revolutionary science and technology achievements that will propel the next major wave in the manufacture of high-performance microelectronics – specifically, through three-dimensional heterogeneous integration (3DHI). (July 2024)
Hongyang won the third place award in the Best Student Paper Competition of ACES 2024 conference. His paper is titled "Algorithms for Accelerating the Co-simulation of Maxwell’s and Drift-Diffusion Equations for Transient Device Simulations in the THz Regime." Congratulations! (May 2024)
Prof. Jiao named Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques for the next term. The IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques is a publication of three IEEE societies: the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S), the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), and the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society (EMC-S). The journal is a premium platform for publishing and promoting frontier research in multiscale and multiphysics computation and their important applications. (March, 2024)
Prof. Jiao received the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Computational Electromagnetics Award. This award honors career achievements and substantial, major contributions in the field of computational electromagnetics. She was recognized for contributions to a new generation of fast and large-scale solvers in computational electromagnetics. (Mar. 2023)
Prof. Jiao delivered an invited talk at the "Bridging the Gap: From Computational Physics, to Physics-Informed Machine Learning, to Data-Driven Scientific Discovery" event held on June 2–3, 2026, at the University of Toronto. (June 2026)