News & Highlights
Latest achievements, publications, and milestones from the HIE Lab
2026
2025
- Oct
Hedayat's IEEE RWW paper among finalists for best student paper award
Award - Sep
Xuyang successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
Defense - Sep
IEEE Radar Conference paper top 5 nominated for best student paper award (Allen and Xuyang)
Award - Jul
Mahdi presented two articles at IEEE APS 2025
Conference - Apr
FALCON accepted to NeurIPS 2025
Milestone - Feb
Xuyang's JSSC paper on phase-locked radar transceiver published
Publication - Feb
Sub-THz communication paper published in Nature Communications Engineering
Publication
2024
- Dec
Behnam's TCAS-I paper on low-noise mm-wave VCOs published
Publication - Oct
Xuyang's TCAS-II paper on ultra-low-power Class-D VCOs published
Publication - Sep
Behnam successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation
Defense - Jun
Amin's NeurIPS ML4PS Workshop paper received Reproducibility Award
Award - Mar
Xuyang and Hedayat advanced to doctoral candidacy
Milestone
2023
- Oct
Behnam's TCAS-I publication on mm-wave VCO design
Publication - Jul
Amin's IEEE MWTL paper on hybrid CMOS-polyimide force-sensing array published
Publication - Mar
Hedayat receives IEEE MTT-S Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Award - Feb
Hedayat's broadband terahertz antenna paper published in IEEE Access
Publication - Jan
Collaborative paper with FIU accepted in IEEE TAP
Publication
2022
- Dec
MFLEX Inc. sponsors lab for multi-phase research proposal
Milestone - Nov
Behnam receives NSF Travel Grant Award to attend IEEE ESSCIRC
Award - Oct
Hedayat's first journal paper accepted in IEEE TCAS-II
Publication - Sep
Collaborative paper accepted in IEEE TAP on sub-THz stacked-patch antenna
Publication - Jul
Hedayat receives IEEE CICC Student Education Grant 2022
Award - Jun
Behnam and Xuyang's 76–82 GHz VCO paper accepted at IEEE RFIC
Conference - Mar
Hedayat's first HIE Lab paper accepted in IEEE MWTL
Publication - Feb
Xuyang and Hedayat pass Ph.D. preliminary exams
Milestone
2021
- Dec
mm-Wave Radars-on-Chip paper published in IEEE Communications Magazine
Publication
2020
- Sep
Xuyang Liu joins HIE Lab as Ph.D. student
Milestone - Sep
Hedayat Maktoomi joins HIE Lab as Ph.D. student
Milestone
2019
- Jun
UCI Samueli School highlights our Applied Physics Reviews article
Milestone - May
Applied Physics Reviews article featured as Editor's Pick
Award - Apr
IEEE TAP paper selected as featured article
Award - Mar
Hafsah Arain joins HIE Lab as undergraduate researcher
Milestone - Jan
Marcus Clark Wong joins HIE Lab as undergraduate researcher
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