Yen-Chi Lee 李彥奇

2026.08 – present | Jointly Appointed Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Engineering, National Central University, Taiwan
2024.08 – present | Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, National Central University, Taiwan
2021.03 – 2024.06 | Assistant Research Fellow, Hon Hai Research Institute

2026, 2025 | Newly Appointed Outstanding Talent Award (新聘卓越人才獎勵), National Central University 

Publications and Preprints

* Corresponding author. † Equal contribution (co-first authors).
 

Journal Articles

A. Recent Journal Articles

[J1] Yen-Chi Lee*.
“Phase-Resolved Molecular Timing Channels under Pulsatile Drift: Volterra Characterization and Corrected Inverse-Gaussian Approximation.”
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2026, Early Access.

[J2] Yen-Chi Lee*.
“First-hitting location laws as boundary observables of drift-diffusion processes.”
Physical Review E, vol. 114, no. 2, Art. 024117, 2026.

[J3] Yen-Chi Lee*.
“On the Tail Transition of First Arrival Position Channels: From Cauchy to Exponential Decay.”
IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 30, pp. 1671–1675, 2026.

[J4] Yen-Chi Lee*, Ping-Cheng Yeh, and Chia-Han Lee.
“Exact 3-D Channel Impulse Response Under Uniform Drift for Absorbing Spherical Receivers.”
IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 30, pp. 1290–1294, 2026.

[J5] Yen-Chi Lee*, Yun-Feng Lo, Jen-Ming Wu, and Min-Hsiu Hsieh.
“Characterizing First Arrival Position Channels: Noise Distribution and Capacity Analysis.”
IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 72, no. 7, pp. 4010–4025, 2024.

Earlier Journal Articles

[J6] Ya-Ping Hsieh, Yen-Chi Lee, Po-Jen Shih, Ping-Cheng Yeh, and Kwang-Cheng Chen.
“On the asynchronous information embedding for event-driven systems in molecular communications.”
Nano Communication Networks, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 2–13, 2013.

[J7] Ping-Cheng Yeh, Kwang-Cheng Chen, Yen-Chi Lee, Ling-San Meng, Po-Jen Shih, Pin-Yu Ko, Wei-An Lin, and Chia-Han Lee.
“A new frontier of wireless communication theory: diffusion-based molecular communications.”
IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 28–35, 2012.

B. Preprints and Submitted Manuscripts

Years refer to the initial arXiv posting; links point to the latest versions.

[P1] Yen-Chi Lee, Chun-An Yang, and Nan Yang.
“Exact Cap Response and Aperture Selection for Molecular Communication under Aligned Drift.”
arXiv:2610.20233, 2026.

[P2] Yen-Chi Lee*.
“From Distance to Angle: One-Shot Detection Under Isotropic Multivariate Cauchy Noise.”
arXiv:2604.08949, 2026. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

[P3] Po-Chun Chou, Yen-Chi Lee*, Chun-An Yang, Chia-Han Lee, and Ping-Cheng Yeh.
“Field-Assisted Molecular Communication: Girsanov-Based Channel Modeling and Dynamic Waveform Optimization.”
arXiv:2603.27523, 2026.

[P4] Yen-Chi Lee*.
“Capacity Scaling Laws for Boundary-Induced Drift-Diffusion Noise Channels.”
arXiv:2602.07866, 2026.

[P5] Yun-Feng Lo and Yen-Chi Lee*.
“Spatiotemporal First-Arrival Modeling and Parameter Estimation in Drift-Diffusion Molecular Channels.”
arXiv:2508.18680, 2025.

[P6] Yun-Feng Lo†, Yen-Chi Lee*†, and Min-Hsiu Hsieh.
“Symmetry-Enforced Quadratic Approximate-Degradability Bounds for Noisy Landau-Streater Channels.”
arXiv:2401.16312, 2024; revised 2026. Submitted to Physical Review A.

C. Conference Proceedings

[C1] Yen-Chi Lee and Min-Hsiu Hsieh.
“On the Capacity of Zero-Drift First Arrival Position Channels in Diffusive Molecular Communication.”
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Denver, CO, USA, pp. 4120–4125, June 2024.

[C2] Yen-Chi Lee, Chiun-Chuan Chen, Ping-Cheng Yeh, and Chia-Han Lee.
“Distribution of first arrival position in molecular communication.”
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 1033–1037, July 2016.

[C3] Jiun-Ting Huang, Hsin-Yu Lai, Yen-Chi Lee, Chia-Han Lee, and Ping-Cheng Yeh.
“Distance estimation in concentration-based molecular communications.”
In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. 2587–2591, December 2013.

[C4] Pin-Yu Ko, Yen-Chi Lee, Ping-Cheng Yeh, Chia-Han Lee, and Kwang-Cheng Chen.
“A new paradigm for channel coding in diffusion-based molecular communications: Molecular coding distance function.”
In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Anaheim, CA, USA, pp. 3748–3753, December 2012.

[C5] Wei-An Lin, Yen-Chi Lee, Ping-Cheng Yeh, and Chia-Han Lee.
“Signal detection and ISI cancellation for quantity-based amplitude modulation in diffusion-based molecular communications.”
In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Anaheim, CA, USA, pp. 4362–4367, December 2012.

[C6] Ya-Ping Hsieh, Po-Jen Shih, Yen-Chi Lee, Ping-Cheng Yeh, and Kwang-Cheng Chen.
“An asynchronous communication scheme for molecular communication.”
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Ottawa, Canada, pp. 6177–6182, June 2012.