Ali Hajimiri received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Stanford University in 1996 and 1998, respectively.
Before joining the Faculty of Caltech, he worked at Philips Semiconductors, where he worked on a BiCMOS chipset for GSM and cellular units, at Sun Microsystems working on the UltraSPARC microprocessor’s cache RAM design methodology, and with Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs), Murray Hill, NJ, where he investigated low-phase-noise integrated oscillators. In 1998, he joined the Faculty of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, where he is Bren Professor of Electrical Engineering and Medical Engineering, Director of Caltech Holistic Integrated Circuit Laboratory, and co-Director of the Space-based Solar Power Project. His research interests are high-speed and high-frequency electronics and photonics integrated circuits for applications in sensors, biomedical devices, photonics, and communication systems.
Prof. Hajimiri is the author of The Design of Low Noise Oscillators (Boston, MA: Springer) and has authored and coauthored more than 200 refereed journal and conference technical articles. He has been granted more than 100 U.S. patents and has many more pending applications. He has served on the Technical Program Committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (TCAS): Part-II, a member of the Technical Program Committees of the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Guest Editorial Board of Transactions of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE).
He is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Prof. Hajimiri was selected to the TR35 top innovator’s list. He is also a Fellow of IEEE and has served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State and Microwave Societies. He won the Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Caltech’s most prestigious teaching honor, as well as Caltech’s Graduate Students Council Teaching and Mentoring award and the Associated Students of Caltech Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award. He was the Gold medal winner of the National Physics Competition and the Bronze Medal winner of the 21st International Physics Olympiad, Groningen, Netherlands. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Best Paper Award of 2004, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Jack Kilby Outstanding Paper Award, a co-recipient of RFIC best paper award, a two-time co-recipient of CICC best paper award, and a three-time winner of the IBM faculty partnership award as well as National Science Foundation CAREER award and Okawa Foundation award. In 2002, he co-founded Axiom Microdevices Inc., whose fully-integrated CMOS PA has shipped more than 400,000,000 units, and was acquired by Skyworks Inc. in 2009.
Xueru Zhou received her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Electrical Engineering ( with a minor in computer science) from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Technology in 2023 and 2024, respectively. There, she worked with Professor Jabeom Koo on RF receiver design. She completed her Master’s thesis on a novel topology for quadrature phase generators in low-power, high-frequency RF front-ends. Currently, Xueru is mainly interested in analog RF design for applications in communication, health, and sustainability.
Jatin Mathur received his bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2022. There, he worked on artificial intelligence research in Sanmi Koyejo’s lab, now called the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research lab. Currently, Jatin is interested in combining hardware and software to make new sensing and imaging devices.
Suraj received his B. Tech Degree with Honors in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2023. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the CHIC group in Caltech.
Zach received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2023. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Caltech and his primary research interest is in integrated circuit/photonics design for communications applications.
Alex received his bachelors degree from University of Minnesota and Masters degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Caltech.
Oren received his B.S. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering from Duke University in 2019. There, he worked with Dr. David R. Smith toward the development of RF metamaterials with imaging and sensing capabilities. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with Dr. Ali Hajimiri. He is particularly interested in sensing, imaging, and machine learning.
Raha is fourth-year undergraduate student in electrical engineering at Caltech. She has worked on an RF receiver architecture for wireless power transfer through space.
Austin received his B.S. degree from Harvey Mudd College in 2016 and his masters and Ph.D.from Caltech in 2018 and 2022, respectively. He pursued his Ph.D. he in ultra large-scale, flexible, or otherwise unusual phased arrays.
Parham received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, in 2015, and the M.S.and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering in 2016 and 2021 , in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA. His current research interests include millimeter-wave and radio frequency integrated circuits for biomedical and communications applications, and silicon photonics platforms for the next generation of optical sensors. Dr. Khial was a recipient of the Gold Medal winner of the National Astronomy Olympiad and the Bronze and Silver Medal winner of the 5th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (5th IOAA) in Poland, and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2016.
Aroutin Khachaturian received the B.S. degree (with honors) in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in 2013. He received his Ph.D. degreefrom California Institute of Technology in 2020.
His research interests includes integrated electronic-photonics microsystems for imaging, biomedical applications, and communications as well as magnetic sensing for medical diagnosis.
Dr. D. Elliott Williams is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Hofstra University. His research focuses on developing adaptive electromagnetic systems using novel degrees of freedom. His vision is to create devices with enhanced control of electromagnetic fields that can dynamically adapt to changing environments and/or needs. Working with colleagues in the aerospace department at Caltech, Dr. Williams invented the first shape-changing phased array and demonstrated that it can break the trade-off between maximum gain and steering range.
Prior to joining the faculty at Hofstra University, Dr. Williams earned a B.S. and an M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2015 and 2016, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2022. At MIT he conducted research on generating THz noise using Schottkey diodes in avalanche breakdown and developed a robotics platform for introductory engineering education. Dr. Williams has also worked at SpaceX where he helped develop the phased arrays for the initial prototype Starlink satellites, and at Apple Inc. where he explored experimental technologies for new product features.
Dr. Williams was a recipient of the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2017 and won the 2022 EuMC Young Engineer Prize for his work on flexible meta-gaps.
His outside interests include playing guitar, listening to music, petting his dog, and baking.
Reza Fatemi received the B.S. degree with honors in electrical engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, and the M.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology (SUT), in 2011 and 2013 respectively. He was awarded a fellowship from California Institute of Technology for Ph.D. studies in 2014. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA in 2020. His Research interests are the foundations of silicon photonics and high speed circuit design.
Matan received his B.S. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering, with honors, from Ben-Gurion University, Israel, in 2009. From 2009 to 2014 he worked as an RF-IC design engineer. He received his Ph.D. degrees from California Institute of Technology in 2020 and is currently an assistant professor at Ben-Gurion University.
His research interests are silicon photonics, integrated arrays, and integrated bio-sensors.
Cole received his B.S. degree from Caltech working in the CHIC group on integrated electronics and photonics circuits. He is pursuing his Ph.D. degree at MIT.
Armina received her B.S. degree from University of Toronto and her M.S. degree from Caltech working with Prof. Hajimiri. She is currently an IC design engineer at Qualcomm Inc.
Mohith Manohara received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering degree from Caltech. While at Caltech he did research on phased arrays with Prof. Hajimiri and CHIC group. He received the 2020 Henry Ford II Scholar Award.
Brian Hong received his B.S., summa cum laude and Tau Beta Pi, in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2013, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2014. In 2018 , he received his Ph.D. Degree from Caltech in Electrical Engineering. He was a recipient of the JPL Undergraduate Scholarship, the Rose Hills Foundation Fellowship, and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award. His current research focuses on the theory of oscillators and phase noise as well as the design of magnetic bio-sensing and actuation techniques. In particular, he is interested in developing new mathematical models and physical viewpoints for understanding the theoretical fundamentals of various electronic systems.
Constantine Sideris received the B.S. and M.S. degrees (with honors) in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2010 and 2011, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Caltech in 2017. He was the recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2010. His research interests include RF and millimeter-wave CMOS integrated circuits for communication, imaging, and biomedical applications, as well as computational electromagnetics for integrated antenna design.
Behrooz Abiri is the Chief Technology Officer of GuRu Inc. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. degree from Caltech. He also received the B.S. degree with honors in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and the M.S. degree from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. His research interests are incorporating circuit design techniques in silicon photonics, RF and high-speed interconnect circuits.
Mr. Abiri was awarded the Edward S. Rogers scholarship, Caltech PhD Fellowship, Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award and Solid State Circuits Society Pre-doctroal Achievement Award. He is also the Gold Medal winner of the 16th Physics Olympiad, South Korea.
Stefan received his Masters degree from Caltech. After getting his Masters, Stefan continued his studies at Rigetti Quantum Computing. Now he is building a company that aims to bring quality internet to those who don’t currently have access.
Amir received his Ph.D. from Caltech and worked as a post-doctoral scholar, before becoming a senior member of technical staff at GuRu Inc. Amirreza Safaripour also received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2010, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2012.
His research interests include holistic design of high frequency analog and mm-wave integrated circuits, mm-wave transmitters and receivers, as well as novel electromagnetic design of integrated radiators for the next generation of mm-wave applications, with emphasis on self-correcting and adaptive mm-wave power generation and radiation.
He received Caltech’s Atwood Fellowship in 2010 and Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2012. He also received the National Elite Foundation Fellowship from 2007 to 2010.
Alex Pai is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology working in the Caltech High-Speed Integrated Circuits (CHIC) lab. His research focuses include biosensors, integrated circuit design, and magnetic drug delivery. He graduated Highest Honors with a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. In 2009, he worked at Intel Corporation designing SRAM. He received a Masters degree from the California Institute of Technology in 2011. His awards include the Atwood Fellowship, Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award, and the Chevron-Texaco Information Technology Scholarship.
Kaushik Dasgupta received the B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, both in 2008, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA in 2010. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in 2015.
During the summers of 2006 and 2007, He was a research intern with the System on Chip Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests are mm-wave / RF integrated transmitters and receivers in CMOS/BiCMOS processes.
He was the recipient of the Caltech Atwood Fellowship (2008), the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award (2009), the Jagadish Bose National Science Talent Scholarship (2003), and the Best Undergraduate Project of the Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering Department, IIT. He was the co-recipient of the IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper award (2012).
Steven M. Bowers received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego and his M.S. and Ph.D. in mm-wave circuits and systems from the California Institute of Technology. Subsequently, he completed postdoctoral fellow at Caltech. He is currently an Associate Professors of Electrical Engineering at University of Virginia. His research interests include holistic integration of high-frequency analog circuits, advanced digital circuits, novel electromagnetic structures and integrated silicon photonics to enable the next generation of mm-wave applications, specifically in adaptive and self-healing mm-wave circuits and mm-wave power generation and radiation. He received the Caltech Institute Fellowship in 2007, Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2009, is a member of IEEE, HKN and TBP, and was the recipient of the IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Student Paper award in 2012 and the IEEE IMS Best Student Paper award in 2013.
Angad received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2014, where he worked on the design and test of integrated photonic circuits. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford. His research interests include wireless power transfer, low-power and power harvesting circuits and systems, emerging methods of neural stimulation, and the interaction of electromagnetics and acoustics.
Firooz Aflatouni received the B.S. degree from K.N.Toosi University of Technology in 1998 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. He was a Post-doctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology from 2011 the end of 2013, before joining the Department of Electrical and System Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in January 2014 where he is Skirkanich Assistant Professor. In 1999, he co-founded Pardis Bargh Company, where he was involved in the designing of inclined-orbit satellite tracking systems. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Design Engineer with MediaWorks Integrated Circuits Inc., Irvine, CA. Firooz’s research interests include RF, mm-wave, and sub-mm-wave integrated circuits and silicone photonics. He was the recipient of the 2011 USC department of electrical engineering best Ph.D. thesis award, 2010 USC Ming Hsieh top 5 PhD student scholarship, 2010 NASA Tech Award for his work on development of a Ka-Band SiGe receiver front-end MMIC for space transponder applications, and the best B.S. thesis award for design and implementation of a non-geostationary satellite tracking system.
I joined the Electrical Engineering Department in The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in February 2013. I received my PhD degree from Caltech in June 2012 under Prof. Ali Hajimiri . I received graduated an Integrated B.Tech and M.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering in 2007 from Indian Instirtute of Techonology, Kharagpur.
Research Directions: My research interests are broadly on next-generation integrated circuits and system to address various emerging and high-impact applications, including high-frequency and high-speed communications, sensing, imaging, and bio-sensing. I believe, in the next few years a wide range of allied fields such as electrical engineering, applied physics and mathematics, material science, chemistry and biology will grow organically, in a mutually synergetic environment, to transform the landscape for the next-generation cutting-edge technology. Such research topics, which potentially have high positive impact on society and stretch the boundaries between electrical engineering and applied sciences, motivate me. I find such spaces much less explored, and equipped with tools from core disciplines, and with understanding of underlying mathematics and physics, the solutions and methods are often only limited by imagination and creativity. My research approach is to leverage the strengths of concepts and techniques across disciplines and blend them to create novel and high-performance systems with a diverse set of applications from wireless communications to biomedical sensing, imaging, sensing and radar.
Stephen Chapman received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He continued at Caltech as a postdoctoral scholar in the Hajimiri lab from 2009-2011 to develop a small, portable diagnostic platform based on CHIC lab technology. After finishing his postdoc, Dr. Chapman co-founded Deton Corp, a Pasadena-based start-up company focused on developing products to improve the collection and diagnosis of respiratory diseases.
DJ earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering with honors from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 2011. and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Berkeley.
His research interests generally lie in the topics that intersect electrical engineering, applied physics, and bioengineering. He is currently exploring the realms of low-power integrated circuit design, biosensor/circuit interfaces, and next-generation wireless circuits and systems for communication.
Professor Bardin received the BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2003, the MS degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Los Angeles in 2005, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2009.
From 2003-2005, he was with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where he was involved in the demonstration of an array-based downlink for the NASA deep-space network. From 2009-2010, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Caltech High-Speed Integrated Circuits group, where his research was focused on self-healing integrated circuits. In 2010, he joined the University of Amherst as an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research thrusts include reconfigurable millimeter-wave integrated circuits and built-in self-test, single photon detection, ultra-sensitive cryogenically cooled low-noise amplifiers, transistor modeling, THz integrated circuits, and novel applications of silicon integrated circuit technology for low-temperature scientific applications. Professor Bardin has served on the IEEE IMS Technical Program Review Committee since 2012 and was a recipient of a 2011 DARPA Young Faculty Award and a 2014 NSF CAREER Award.
Yu-Jiu Wang was born in Taichung, Taiwan. He received the BS degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2001, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA in 2006 and 2009, respectively.
He was a research assistant with the MMIC group in National Taiwan University, where he studied Q-band and V-band compound semiconductor MMICs from 1999 to 2001. He served as a naval officer for the obligatory military service from 2001 to 2003. He was an assistant instructor for electronics laboratory in NTU from 2003 to 2004. He studied noisy network decorrelation theory, MMIC and dual-band phased-array systems, and concurrent UWB RF transceiver systems in his graduate studies in Caltech from 2004 to 2009. In 2009, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. Since 2015, he became a tenured associate professor. In 2019, he formally left National Chiao Tung University to focus on his company named: Tron Future Tech Inc. as the Chairman and C.E.O. Tron Future Tech Inc. focus on ultra thin all-digital phased array multi-function radar, though they also design their own ICs. They ship phased array radar system directly to end users. They currently cover off-shore energy, aerospace and military industry in several Asian countries; though they are also exploring European and American markets. The company is currently 100% privately-held without VC-backing, and is driven solely by revenues from customers.
Dr. Wang was the first prize winner of the National Physics Competition and the Silver medal winner of the 27th, and 28th International Physics Olympiad, Oslo, Norway in 1996, and Ontario, Canada in 1997 respectively. He also led a team to win the championship in a National Entrepreneurship Competition.
Florian Bohn received the B.S. degree with honors in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2011, where he worked on frequency synthesizers. From 2003 to 2005, he worked as an RF IC design engineer with Axiom Microdevices Inc., Irvine, CA. At Axiom, he focused on the design and testing of active and passive circuits for GSM/GPRS CMOS power amplifiers. He worked at Agilent Laboratories from 2011 till 2014. He is currently the Vise President of Engineering at Luminous Computing. His research interests lie in the area of integrated micro- and millimeter wave transceiver circuits and systems. Mr. Bohn has received a Conexant Scholarship and an Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award.
Lita is a Hardware Engineer working in the AI and Advanced Architectures group at Microsoft. She received her B.S. degree from Caltech and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research interests are in hardware design for deep learning and AI algorithms. In particular, her work focuses on edge computing devices and bringing intelligence to mobile and embedded platforms using a combination of hardware-software co-design techniques. Her thesis explores the memory design implications for energy-efficient AI chips (using digital and mixed-signal circuit design), while exploiting the inherent error resilience of Convolutional Neural Networks for image classification tasks.
Edward A. Keehr received the S.B. and M. Eng degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, in 2001 and 2002 respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA in 2011.
From 1999 to 2002, he held summer internships with QUALCOMM, Incorporated, San Diego, CA as part of the MIT VI-A internship program. From 2002 to 2005 he worked at QUALCOMM as a full-time Design Engineer specializing in analog and mixed-signal circuits. From 2010 to 2013 he was a Project Manager/Project Technical Lead at AyDeeKay LLC, Laguna Niguel, CA working on serial data link and power management circuits and systems for automotive applications. Since 2013 he has served as President and Consultant at Superlative Semiconductor LLC, Carlsbad, CA, a design consultancy specializing in analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuits and systems.
Dr. Keehr is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. He was the recipient of an NDSEG Fellowship in 2005 and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2006. He received 2nd Place in the Student Paper Competition at the 2010 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium. In 2011, he received the Charles Wilts Prize for outstanding independent research in electrical engineering leading to a Ph.D. at Caltech.
Professor Wang received his B.Sc. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2003, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. During the summer of 2004, he was with Guidant Corporation (later acquired by Boston Scientific), working on accelerometer systems for implantable biomedical devices. In 2010, he joined Intel Corporation. His work at Intel included the next-generation energy-efficient mm-Wave communication link and broadband CMOS Font-End-Modules for Wi-Fi systems. In May 2011, he joined Skyworks Solutions, where he led the development of SAW-less integrated filter solutions for low-cost cellular-standard power amplifier Front-End-Modules. In spring 2012, he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He is currently a Full professor at ETH Switzerland.
Dr. Wang is generally interested in innovating and engineering mixed-signal, RF, and mm-Wave integrated systems for wireless communication and bioelectronics applications. He is a member of Sigma Xi, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.
Dr. Babakhani is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to joining UCLA he was a Professor of EECS at Rice University. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2003, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2005 and 2008, respectively. Dr. Babakhani was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech in 2009 and a research scientist at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in 2010.
He won an NSF CAREER Award in 2016, the Best Paper Award in IEEE RWS Symposium in 2015 as well as the Best Paper Award in IEEE IMS Symposium in 2014. He received an innovation award from Northrop Grumman in 2014 and a prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) in 2012. He received the Caltech Electrical Engineering Department’s Charles Wilts Best Ph.D. Thesis Prize for his work on Near-Field Direct Antenna Modulation (NFDAM). From 2006 to 2008 he was the Vice Chair of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Metro LA/SFV Joint Sections MTT-S Chapter 17.1. He was the recipient of the Microwave Graduate Fellowship in 2007, the Grand Prize in the Stanford-Berkeley-Caltech Innovators Challenge in 2006, Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2005, as well as Caltech Special Institute Fellowship and Atwood Fellowship in 2003. He was also the Gold Medal winner of the National Physics Competition in 1998, and the Gold Medal winner of the 30th International Physics Olympiad in 1999, in Padova, Italy.
Dr Natarajan’s research is focused on mm-wave and sub-mmwave integrated circuits and systems for high-speed wireless communication and imaging. He received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 2001 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. From 2007 to 2012, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY and worked on mm-wave phased arrays for multi-Gb/s data links and airborne radar and on self-healing circuits for increased yield in sub-micron process technologies. Dr. Natarajan received the National Talent Search Scholarship from the Government of India [1995-2000], the Caltech Atwood Fellowship in 2001, the Analog Devices Outstanding Student IC Designer Award in 2004, and the IBM Research Fellowship in 2005, and serves on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Conference.
James Buckwalter received the B.S. degree with honors from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1999, the M.S. degree from UC Santa Barbara in 2001, and his Ph.D. from Caltech in 2006. He worked as a research scientist at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) from 1999 through 2001 and at Luxtera in 2006. In 2006, he joined the faculty of the UC San Diego as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2012. His research group is conducted in the area of high-speed integrated circuit design and receives funding from a variety of companies and government agencies. He consults for industrial and legal clients. He serves as a reviewer for a number of IEEE journals including the Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and II, and Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. From 2007-2009, he was an associate editor of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems II. He also serves on the technical paper review committee of the International Microwave Symposium. He was awarded the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2007 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2011.
Ehsan Afshari was born in 1979. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 2003, and 2006, respectively. In August 2006, he joined the faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012. In Fall 2016, he joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, as an Associate Professor. His research interests are mm-wave and terahertz electronics and low-noise integrated circuits for applications in communication systems, sensing, and biomedical devices.
Prof. Afshari serves as the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC). He was the chair of the IEEE Ithaca section, the chair of Cornell Highly Integrated Physical Systems (CHIPS), a member of International Technical Committee of the IEEE Solid-State Circuit Conference (ISSCC), a member of the Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), and a member of Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB).
He is selected as one of 50 most distinguished alumni of Sharif University. He was awarded National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2010, Cornell College of Engineering Michael Tien excellence in teaching award in 2010, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award in 2008, and Iran’s Best Engineering Student award by the President of Iran in 2001. He is also the recipient of the best paper award in the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), September 2003, the first place at Stanford-Berkeley-Caltech Inventors Challenge, March 2005, the best undergraduate paper award in Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, 1999, the recipient of the Silver Medal in the Physics Olympiad in 1997, and the recipient of the Award of Excellence in Engineering Education from Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH), May 2004.
Sanggeun Jeon received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Seoul National University, Korea, in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. From 1999 to 2002, he was a Full.Time Instructor in electronics engineering at the Korea Air Force Academy.
From 2006 to 2008, he was a Research Engineer in the Caltech High.Speed Integrated Circuits Group, where he was involved with CMOS phased.array receiver design. In 2008, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering at Korea University, Seoul, as an Assistant Professor.
His research interests include high.efficiency power amplifiers, oscillators, nonlinear stability analysis, and CMOS communication circuits. Dr. Jeon was the recipient of the Third Place Award in the Student Paper Competition at the 2005 IEEE MTT.S International Microwave Symposium.
Sam Mandegaran earned bachelor’s degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Economics at the California Institute of Technology before pursuing graduate studies at Princeton University and Caltech earning a Master’s in Electrical Engineering. He shifted his studies to Film Production after seeing an unfortunate and alarming trend in our society towards a lack of interest and respect for math and science. His primary motivation in pursuing filmmaking is to reverse that trend, to excite our youth about math and science. He obtained an MFA from USC.
Sam Mandegaran was awarded a Production grant at USC in 2008 for Play to Win
Dr. Rumi Chunara researches and develops ways to use unstructured data in real-world applications and understand population health. As a computer engineers and scientist, she has revolutionized how medical and public health researchers collect health information through the Internet and mobile technology.
Driven to understand how and why diseases spread in populations, she has developed cutting-edge research models at HealthMap and the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at Harvard Medical School. Through the GoViral study, Dr. Chunara works closely with students on campus to collect crowd sourced data of influenza in real-time. GoViral uses the collected data and modeling methods to better understand viral spread, uncover geographical variation in spread and epidemiology, and predict and recommend behaviors that limit disease spread. At NYU, Dr. Chunara also leads the Chunara Lab, which develops computational and statistical methods across data mining, natural language processing, spatio-temporal analyses and machine learning, to study population health. She received her B.S. degree in EE from Caltech and her Ph.D fro m MIT.
Abbas Komijani received the B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1995 and 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2006. He is currently Staff Design Engineer at Qualcomm where he has led the design of RF transmitters, data converters and frequency synthesizers for WLAN and LTE. He was recipient of the Silver Medal in National Mathematics Olympiad, Iran, 1991, the Kharazmi Award of Industrial Research and Development, Iran, 2002, Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) best student paper award in 2004, and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Award in 2005.
Chu-Hsin (Jewel) Liang, was born in Taipei Taiwan in 1977. She received her B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering and Computer and Information Science from National Chaio Tung University in 1999. She received the M.S. degree in Electronics from National Chiao Tung University in 2001 and the 2nd from California Institute of Technology in 2004.
She was a senior engineer in Infineon Technology North America in Hopewell Junction New York 2004-2011, where she worked on FEOL device modeling and BEOL parasitic extraction from CMOS 65 to 20nm deep sub-micron technologies. She was a lead engineer in Common Platform Alliance device modeling group. She is currently a senior engineer in Intel Santa Clara California, where she is working on advanced device modeling and CMOS component design for Intel advanced non-volatile memory solution.
Dr Xiang Guan received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996, the M. Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 2005.
From 2006 to 2011, he worked at SiBeam, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, as a Staff Microwave and RF Engineer, developing CMOS 60GHz RFIC products. Since 2011, He has been the VP of RF of AltoBeam Inc., Beijing, China, where he leads a team developing IC products for consumer electronic applications.
Dr. Guan was a co-recipient of the 2004 JSSC Best Paper Awards. He was a co-recipient of the Grand Prize in the Stanford Innovators Challenge in 2006. He also received the Schlumberger Fellowship in 2000 and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2002.
Behnam is the co-founder and CEO of Abtum Inc. Behnam joined the USC Electrical Engineering Department-Electrophysics as a Research Associate Postdoctoral Scholar in September 2009. At USC, he conducted research on novel integrated systems.
Behnam also joined Caltech in September 2009, as a lecturer in Electrical Engineering option to follow his passion for teaching. He is responsible for teaching Analog IC design.
Prior to the positions at USC and Caltech, Behnam was Sr. Staff Engineer and the manager of the analog IC team at Luxtera Inc., Carlsbad, CA. He was a key contributor in developing Luxtera’s latest generations of Silicon-Photonics family of products with various roles as project lead, circuit design lead, and system architect. Before joining Luxtera in 2005, He also held a summer position with the Mixed-Signal Communications IC design group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.
Behnam was the Silver Medal winner of the National Mathematics Olympiad in 1994. He was the recipient of Caltech’s Atwood Fellowship in 2000 and the Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2002.
Roberto Aparicio Joo was born in Puebla, Mexico, in 1975. He received the B.S. degree with honors (Cum Laude) in electronics from Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico, in 1999 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, in 2001 and 2004, respectively.
He has held technical and management positions with Centro Tecnologico para Informatica (CTI), Campinas, Brazil, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, Axiom Microdevices Inc, Irvine, CA(acquired by Skyworks Inc.), Mobius semiconductor, Irvine, CA (acquired by Entropic Communications), and Peregrine Semiconductor, San Diego, CA. Since 2013, he has been with Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, as a Senior Staff Engineer.
Dr. Aparicio Joo ranked first at the Universidad Autonoma de Puebla class ’98 and earned the Phoenix Medal for outstanding academic achievements. He was a Fulbright Scholarship and an IBM Research Fellowship recipient at the California Institute of Technology from 1999 to 2001 and 2002 to 2003, respectively, and received the Walker von Brimer Foundation Outstanding Accomplishment Award and the Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award, both in 2001.
Hossein Hashemi received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He received Caltech engineering and applied science division fellowship award in 1999, Walker von Brimer Foundation Outstanding Accomplishment Award in 2000, Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2001, Intel Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award in 2002.
Hossein joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor in 2003, where he was the holder of Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair of Electrical Engineering from 2007-09. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and systems—Part I: Regular Papers (2006–2007) and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and systems—Part II: Express Briefs (2004–2005).
Hossein was the recipient of the 2000 Outstanding Accomplishment Award presented by the von Brimer Foundation, the 2001 Outstanding Student Designer Award presented by Analog Devices, a 2002 Intel Fellowship, the 2003 Young Scholar Award presented by the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage, the 2008 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award, the 2008 USC Viterbi School of Engineering Junior Faculty Research Award, and an NSF CAREER Award in 2009. He was the co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits Best Paper Award and the 2007 Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper presented at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
Scott Kee (M’03) received the B.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware, Newark, in 1998, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in 2002.
He was a founding member of Axiom Microdevices, a fabless semiconductor startup producing CMOS cellular power amplifiers, where he worked from 2002 to 2007 as CTO. He is currently the CTO of Indie, a fabless semiconductor startup, which he co-founded in 2007.
Fred Romberg received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995 and an M.S. from Caltech in 2000. Following a 12-year career as a Staff Engineer in JPL’s Ground Communications Section, he went on to earn an M.D. degree from Yale University in 2012 and completed residency training programs in medicine and anesthesiology at Harvard University and the University of Utah, respectively. Fred is now a practicing physician anesthesiologist in the Sonoma County area of Northern California.
Hui Wu received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and M.Sc. degree in microelectronics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1996 and 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, in June 2003, respectively. He was a co-op researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center during the summer of 2001. In 2002-2003, he was with Axiom Microdevices, Orange, CA, developing fully-integrated CMOS power amplifiers for wireless communications.
In 2003, he joined the faculty of the University of Rochester, where he is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and director of Laboratory for Advanced Integrated Circuits and Systems. His current research interests are in wideband RF/microwave integrated circuits, ultrafast electronics, extremely low-power RF and digital circuits, electronic-photonic integrated circuits (EPICs), and high speed interconnect technologies. Dr. Wu has authored and co-authored over forty technical papers in major journals and conferences, and holds several US patents or patent applications. He was the recipient of the Motorola Scholarship, Guanghua Fellowship, and IBM Research Fellowship in 1995, 1997, and 2001, respectively.
Donhee Ham earned a B.S. degree in physics from Seoul National University in 1996, where he graduated summa cum laude with the Presidential Prize, ranked top 1st across the College of Natural Sciences. Following a 1.5-year mandatory military service in the Republic of Korea Army, he went to Caltech for graduate training in physics. There he worked on general relativity and gravitational astrophysics while in physics. He changed his major to Electrical Engineering in 1998 and worked under Prof. Ali Hajimiri’s supervision and obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2002 winning the Charles Wilts Prize awarded for the best thesis in Electrical Engineering. His doctoral work examined the statistical physics of electrical circuits. He was the recipient of the IBM Doctoral Fellowship, Li Ming Scholarship, IBM Faculty Partnership Award, IBM Research Design Challenge Award, and the fellow of the Korea Foundation of Advanced Studies.
Ichiro Aoki was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1965. He received the B.S.E.E. degree from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brazil, in 1987, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He is currently the president of Indie Inc., a fabless semiconductor startup, which he co-founded in 2007. Together with Dr. Scott Kee and Prof. Ali Hajimiri, he co-founded Axiom Microdevices, Inc., a fabless semiconductor startup with over 200 million fully integrated CMOS power amplifiers shipped to GSM/GPRS cell phone market to date, and from 2002 to 2007 worked in its engineering and management positions including acting CEO. He cofounded and managed as co-CEO PST Eletrônica S/A, Brazil, a car electronic components manufacturing company from 1988 to 1998. At the time of his departure, PST had 300 employees and has since grown to over 1200 employees and over US$200 million revenue. His current research interests include high-frequency silicon RF analog integrated circuits for wireless communications and low-power mixed-signal circuits. Mr. Aoki received the Schlumberger Fellowship from 1998 to 1999 and the Walker von Brimer Foundation Award in 2000 at Caltech.
