Lab Director
Hamidreza Aghasi
Assistant Professor of EECS
haghasi@uci.edu
(949)-824-8810
Hamidreza Aghasi received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2011 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in 2015 and 2017, respectively. In Summer 2014, he was an intern with Samsung Research America Display lab, San Jose, CA, USA. From 2017 to 2018 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan and from 2018 to 2019, he was a mm-wave research scientist at Acacia Communications Inc., Holmdel, NJ, USA. He is currently an assistant professor at the electrical engineering and computer science department of UC Irvine. His current research interests are mm-wave and terahertz electronics for applications in communication, biomedical imaging, and molecular spectroscopy.
Dr. Aghasi is a member of IEEE Solid-State Circuits society, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques society, and a TPC member of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC). He received the Cornell graduate Fellowship in 2011, Jacobs Fellowship in 2012, Cornell ECE Innovation Award in 2013, and Cornell Scale-up and Prototyping award in 2017. He was selected as the author of “Article of the Month” by IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology in June 2016 and is co-recipient of 2019 Best Invited Paper Award at the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC).
PhD Students
Md Hedayatullah Maktoomi (Hedayat) is currently a Ph.D. student in the HIE lab. He received his B. Engg. degree from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India in 2015 and M.S. degree from Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA in 2020.
From 2016 to 2017, he was an intern and subsequently a research assistant at IIIT Delhi, where he worked on the passive RF/microwave circuits. In summer 2019, he joined the Research & Development department of Wolfspeed Inc., CA, USA as an RF engineering intern where he was involved in Doherty power amplifier module design and Python based load-pull data analysis. He has published several conference and journal papers including in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II and IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Technique. He frequently serves as reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, IET Electronics Letters, and Progress in Electromagnetics Research (PIER).
Xuyang Liu received his BS in Electronic Information Engineering from Jilin University, Changchun, China in 2018 and MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, NY in 2019. He is currently working on his PhD study at UC Irvine.
His current research interest is in analog/RF circuits.
Mahdi Alesheikh earned his Bachelor of Science in Electronics from Sharif University of technologies, Tehran, Iran. He completed his BSc thesis in IoT circuits Under the supervision of Prof.Safarian. He then earned his MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Alberta in Canada. During his master’s degree, he worked on RfIC and microwave circuits under the supervision of Prof.Karumudi and Hossain. He is currently pursuing his PhD at UC Irvine.
His current research interest is in analogue/RF circuits.
Behnam Moradi shahrbabak received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. His B.Sc. He was a recipient of the UC Irvine EECS departmental fellowship in 2019. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
His research interests include Analog, RF, Millimeter-Wave (mm-Wave) Circuits, and System Design.
MSc Students
Undergraduate Researchers
Mengjie Xie
mengjix1@uci.edu
Research Interests: Analog and RF Circuit Design, and Machine Learning
Group Alumni
Pooya Khajeh pursued his MS in Electrical Engineering at UCI. His research interests are Analog/RF IC design, Terahertz/mm-Wave applications, and transceiver front end.
Current Position: R&D Test Engineer at Broadcom
Kelly Aung Lu pursued her BSc in Electrical Engineering at UCI.
Research Interests: Analog/RF circuit design and wireless communication
Current Position: Graduate Student at Stanford University
Annika Ageles Del Rosario pursued her BSc in Electrical Engineering at UCI.
Research Interests: Cyberphysical systems and efficient power generation in RF devices
Current Position: Hardware Engineer at Western Digital
Marcus Clark Wong
marcuscw@uci.edu
Research Interests: Radio frequency and millimeter-wave integrated circuit design
Current Position: PhD student at UCSC