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).
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.
Zahra Safarian received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran in 2005, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2008 and 2014, respectively. The focus of her research has been design of the low-power integrated systems for bio-medical applications.
Honrgui Wang received the B.S. in Electronic Science and Technology from the Tianjin University in 2006 and a Ph.D. from the Tsinghua University in 2011 working under Prof. Zhiping Yu. He served as a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Southern California during 2011-2013.
SangHyun Chang received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Seoul National University in 2000 and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2002 and 2007 respectively under Prof. Robert Scholtz. He served as a post-doctoral scholar at Caltech during 2007-2011 and at USC during 2009-2011.
Ankush Goel received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, in 2003, the M.S. and PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, in 2006, and 2010, respectively. From 2003 to 2004, he was an Analog Design Engineer with Texas Instruments Incorporate, Bangalore, India. In the summer of 2008 he was an intern at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. From 2010 to 2012, he was a member of technical staff at MediaTek, San Jose, CA. He is currently a post-doctoral research scholar at USC. His research interests include high-speed analog and RF integrated circuits. Ankush received the USC Annenberg Fellowship in 2007-2008 and the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Fellowship for 2008-2009.
Ta-Shun Chu received the B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and M.S. degree in Applied Mechanics from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2010. In 2010, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Chu was the recipient of the Alfred E. Mann Innovation in Engineering Doctoral Fellowship (2008–2009).
Mahmood Bagheri received the B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2002 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (both with honors) from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 2004 and 2008, respectively, all in electrical engineering under Prof. John O’Brien. He served as a post-doctoral scholar at USC during 12/2008 – 03/2009, and at Yale during 2009-2011 with Prof. Hong Tang.
Harish Krishnaswamy received the B.Tech. degree in electrical engineering from IIT Madras, Chennai, India, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. In 2009, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, where he is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of the Columbia High-Speed and Millimeter-Wave IC Laboratory (CoSMIC).
Dr. Krishnaswamy was a recipient of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper in 2007, the Best Thesis in Experimental Research Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in 2009, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award in 2011, the 2014 IBM Faculty Award, the Best Demo Award at the 2017 IEEE ISSCC, and Best Student Paper Awards (First Place) at the 2015 and 2018 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium . He has been a member of the technical program committee of several conferences, including the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference since 2015 and the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium since 2013. He currently serves as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and as a member of the DARPA Microelectronics Exploratory Council.
In 2017, he co-founded MixComm Inc., a venture-backed startup, to commercialize CoSMIC Laboratory’s advanced wireless research. His current research interests include integrated devices, circuits, and systems for a variety of RF, mmWave, and sub-mmWave applications.
Omeed Momeni remomeni240x180ceived the B.Sc. degree from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, the M.S. degree from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, and the Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, all in Electrical Engineering, in 2002, 2006, and 2011, respectively.
He joined the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of California, Davis in 2011. He was a visiting professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at University of California, Irvine from 2011 to 2012. From 2004 to 2006, he was with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), to design L-band transceivers for synthetic aperture radars (SAR) and high power amplifiers for Mass Spectrometer applications. His research interests include mm-wave and terahertz integrated circuits and systems.
Prof. Momeni is the recipient of the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Cornell ECE Department in 2011, the Outstanding Graduate Award from Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH) in 2011, the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Workshop on Microwave Passive Circuits and Filters in 2010, the Cornell University Jacob’s fellowship in 2007 and the NASA-JPL fellowship in 2003.
