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.
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.
Chen Jiang received his B.S. and M.S. degree in Microelectronics from Fudan University, China, in 2010 and 2013. His M.S. thesis was entitled “Research and design of all-digital frequency synthesizers”. He joined the UNIC in 2013 and was selected as a Jacobs fellow in the same year.
Ruonan Han is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a core member of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL). He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University in 2014 (Advisor: Ehsan Afshari), with the Director’s Best Thesis Research Award. Prior to that, he received his B.Sc. degree in microelectronics from Fudan University in 2007, and M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida in 2009 (Advisor: Kenneth K. O). In 2012, Ruonan worked in Rambus Inc. as an engineering intern. In 2014, he was a postdoctoral scholar in Cornell University.
Professor Han’s research is focused on high-performance integrated circuits and systems operating at terahertz. The topics include self-sustained high-power radiators, broadband frequency converters and CMOS terahertz imaging arrays. These electronic infrastructures are essential for future ultra-high-speed communication, non-ionizing imaging, and terahertz spectroscopy. The past projects achieved many records on the silicon platform, such as operating frequency, output power and sensitivity. Prof. Han’s research group at MIT, the Terahertz Integrated Electronics Group, aims to continue explore the scientific approaches of bridging the terahertz gap between electronic and optic domains.
Prof. Han is the member of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technique Society (MTT-S). He serves as the reviewer of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory & Tech. (T-MTT), IEEE Trans. Terahertz Science & Tech., and the IEEE Trans. Circuits & Systems (T-CAS). He is also a member of the Graduate Admission Committee of MIT EECS.
Amirahmad Tarkeshdouz was born in 1986. He received his M.Eng from Cornell University in 2011. He joined UNIC in 2013 and is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Cornell University.
Somayeh Khiyabani was born in 1988. She received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2012 and has joined UNIC at Cornell University in the same year. Her research interest is high frequency circuit design. She was selected as a Jocobs fellow in 2012.
Ali Mostajeran received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, in 2011. He received his M.Sc. degree in Microelectronics from Sharif University of Technology in 2013. His M.Sc. thesis was “A Novel Design Methodology for Design of Low Phase Noise Oscillators Based on the ISF”. He joined the UNIC in 2013 and was selected as a Cornell fellow in the same year.
Hamid Khatibi (Ph.D.) was born in 1973. He received his B.Sc. in electronics and his master in Control system from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. In 2004 he joined Laboratoir d’Automatique at EPFL where he accomplished a PhD in control system engineering. In 2012, he joined UNIC at Cornell, where he is doing his research about cross-coupled oscillators.
During his study, he has been a recipient of several awards such as: Jacob’s Scholarship (Cornell-2012), Exceptionally valuable performance prize (EPFL-2007), Honored master student (among all engineering students (Iran-1999), Ranked first among all B.Sc. and M.Sc. students (Sharif-1997 and 1999), best B.Sc. thesis contest (Sharif-1999), gold medal in national Physics Olympiad (1992-Iran) and silver medal in Computer Programming Olympiad. He has taught Physics for more than ten years and has been the manager of two Special Business Units of FANAP Co. (ICT Subsidiary of PASARGAD Financial Group-Tehran-Iran). He has also been a circuit designer in several companies during 1994 to 2003. He has been the author of several papers in control system engineering. His research interests include RF circuit design and convex optimization.
Hamidreza Aghasi (Ph.D.) received his BSc. in Electrical Engineering (Communication systems) from Sharif University of Technology in 2011. His undergraduate thesis title was “Source localization based on signal attenuation and delay estimation in sensor networks”. His research interests include signal processing, electromagnetics and RF and millimeter-wave signal generation. He joined the UNIC in 2011 and was selected as a Jacobs fellow in 2012.
Vahnood Pourahmad (Ph.D.) was born in 1986 in Tehran. He received his B.Sc. in civil engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2008. He received his M.Sc. in theoretical and applied mechanics from Cornell University in 2011. His M.Sc. thesis was focused on zeta potential prediction in silica micro channels with respect to background electrolyte composition. Because of his interest in nonlinear dynamics, he has recently joined the UNIC group and is currently working towards his Ph.D in electrical engineering at Cornell University. His research interests include nonlinear phenomena in electronic circuits, specifically parametric amplification for low phase noise oscillator design.
Received B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Shahrood University of Technology and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2020 and 2023 Respectively. He worked in AICDL group on the Low-Power Circuits and Data Converters. He joined UNIC Lab in 2023, where he researches and studies High-Frequency and THz Circuits and Systems.
