Huikai Xie > Biography

Dr. Huikai Xie is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Florida. He received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees all in electrical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Tufts University and Carnegie Mellon University, respectively. Before he joined the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor in 2002, he worked at Tsinghua University (1992-1996), Bosch Corporation (2001), and Akustica Inc. (2002). He has published over 200 technical papers and holds 30 US patents. His current research interests include MEMS/NEMS, integrated inertial sensors, microactuators, integrated power passives, optical MEMS, optical switching, biophotonics, IR spectroscopy, and miniaturized medical devices. He has also founded or co-founded three startup companies, WiOptix Inc. in Florida, Senodia Technologies in Shanghai, and WiO Technologies in Wuxi, China. He has served on the technical program committees of various international conferences and the editorial boards of several international journals. He is a senior member of IEEE and Optical Society of America.