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.
Mohammad Ghadiri-Sadrabadi received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering, from University of Tehran in 2011. In 2011 he joined the RFNANO Electronic group for his graduate studies where he is now working twoards his MS degree in Electrical Engineering. His current research interests include RF/mm-wave self-healing systems, built-in self-test techniques and device modeling.
Prasana Ravindran received his Bachelors degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Anna University,Chennai in 2010. He joined the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2010 and has been working under the guidance of Professor Joseph Bardin since 2011 at the Radio frequency nanoelectronics lab.He received his M.S degree in electrical engineering 2013. His reseach intrerests include cryogenic electronics for communication applications and single photon detection electronics.
Ajay Subramanian received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Florida State University in 2005, Masters (with thesis) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 2008, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst as an Raytheon Advanced Study Scholar. From 2006 to 2008, his master’s research focused on K-Band Local Oscillator designs utilizing extremely high Q resonators embedded in multi-layer high frequency laminates. From 2009 to 2011, he joined Raytheon Company in Andover, Ma into the MMIC Design group of the microelectronics technology group (MET). There he worked on several GaAs and GaN MMIC Designs for implementation in various next generation radar transmit/receive modules. In addition to this, he work under several different corporate IRAD initiatives to improve device packaging, coatings, device thermal performance, and non-linear RF characterization. In 2011 he was selected into the Raytheon Advanced Study Program to pursue his PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His current research focus is on re-configurable RF front ends in CMOS 32SOI and re-configurable sensing architectures for EW applications.
Su-Wei Chang received the B. S. degree in electrical engineering from the Feng-Chia University at Taiwan, R. O. C, in 2005, and is currently working toward the Ph. D degree in electrical and computer engineering at University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Amherst, MA.
From 2005-2011, he was working in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics (ASIAA), Taiwan, R. O. C., where he was involved with developing the receiver system for three international radio astronomy projects, Submillimeter Array (SMA), Array of Microwave Background Anisotropy (AMiBA), and Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), as a microwave engineer. From 2008 to 2009, he was joined the receiver lab at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Cambridge, MA, as a visiting receiver engineer and also leading the receiver team for SMA project in ASIAA. Since 2012, he has been a Research Assistant with the Radio Frequency Nanoelectronic Laboratory, at U. Mass-Amherst. His research interests include noise, cryogenic circuits and applications, silicon based RFIC and MMIC up to the Tera-Hertz frequency bands., and millimeter/sub-millimeter wave receiver.
Seyedeh Shirin Montazeri received her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from University of Tehran at Tehran,Iran in 2013, and is pursuing her Masters in Electrical Engineering at university of Massachusetts Amherst. Since 2013, She has been working at the Radio Frequency Nanoelectronic Laboratory at Umass-Amherst as a Research Assistant. Her current research area is focused on Ultra low-power Cryogenic Low-Noise Amplifiers,millimeter/sub-milliliter wave receivers, and silicon based RFIC.
Ahmet Hakan Coskun was born in Istanbul, Turkey on August 1990. He received his B.Sc. degree from Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2011. He is currently working towards the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests include transistor modeling and circuit design for millimeter-wave applications.
Metin Ayata was born in Diyarbakir, Turkey in 1986. He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering from Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2011. He is currently fulfilling the requirements of Master Degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His current work involves transistor modeling and radio frequency integrated circuit design.
