Rena Huang

Rena Huang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) with additional affiliations in Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy. She joined RPI in October 2004 after completing her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (2003) and serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the Microsystem Packaging Research Center (PRC) at Georgia Tech.

Her research focuses on:

• Optoelectronic devices and integration/packaging
• 3-D integrated microsystems and lightwave circuits
• Integrated slow wave structures
• Photodetectors and electro-optic modulators
• Laser diodes and silicon photonics

She is affiliated with the Center for Materials, Devices, and Integrated Systems (CMDIS), conducting cutting-edge work in photonic computing architectures. Analysis of her 90+ publications shows strong emphasis on:

• Silicon photonic modulators with slow-light enhancement
• Foundry-based fabrication of photonic integrated circuits
• Photonic tensor cores for AI acceleration
• Reservoir computing for biomedical applications
• Inverse design and optimization methodologies

No scientific awards or student advisees are mentioned in the source material. Her research demonstrates consistent focus on hardware-efficient photonic computing solutions with recent work exploring co-design approaches across device, circuit, and architecture levels.