Ying-Chen (Daphne) Chen

Daphne Chen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and her B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Prior to joining ASU, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Northern Arizona University. She also held industry positions as an R&D Pathfinding Emerging Memory Engineer at Micron Technology and as a hardware developer at IBM, working on emerging memory and computing applications. Her research centers on emerging electronics, device physics, fabrication, characterization, and energy‑efficient computing. She is the recipient of the 2019 Sandia National Laboratories Research Award and was selected as a Rising Star in EECS in 2017. Her work has been supported by NASA, the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), and multiple industry partners including Micron Technology and Tokyo Electron. Dr. Chen has authored and co‑authored more than 80 peer‑reviewed journal and conference papers, along with three book chapters. She serves on the technical program committees for the Device Research Conference (DRC), the Semiconductor Interface Specialists Conference (SISC), Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing (EDTM), among others.