Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University

The Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University is a leading engineering department with deep ties to China's semiconductor and AI hardware ecosystems. Under the leadership of Professor Wang Yu, who serves as department head and was also a founder of AI chip startup Infinigence-AI (无问芯穹), the department has positioned itself as a major hub for embodied intelligence research — described by Yunqi Capital as "the domestic department with the largest R&D investment in embodied intelligence" . Its alumni have founded numerous prominent chip and AI companies backed by top venture funds: according to ZhenFund, the department accounted for 21% of Tsinghua-founded startups in its portfolio, including Enflame Technology (燧原科技), Orienspace (东方空间), and Infinigence-AI . The department actively collaborates with industry and government, co-hosting conferences with Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park and engaging with investors like Yunqi Capital on Physical AI commercialization . Its research has also produced breakthrough work in optical computing, with a team led by Academician Dai Qionghai developing a photoelectric fused computing chip that achieved performance improvements of several orders of magnitude over advanced GPUs in vision tasks .