Our Team
Meet the researchers driving innovation in high-frequency integrated electronics at UCI.
Prof. Hamidreza Aghasi
Associate Professor of EECS
Education
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (2011); M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University (2015, 2017)
Research focus
mm-wave and terahertz electronics for applications in communication, biomedical imaging, and molecular spectroscopy
Experience
- Samsung Research America Display Lab Intern (Summer 2014)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan (2017–2018)
- mm-Wave Research Scientist, Acacia Communications Inc. (2018–2019)
Professional service
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (2025–present)
- Technical Program Committee, IEEE CICC (2020–present)
- Technical Program Committee, IEEE RFIC (2024–present)
Memberships
- Senior Member, IEEE
- IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
- IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Awards & honors
- NSF CAREER Award (2025)
- NeurIPS ML4PS Reproducibility Award (2024)
- Best Invited Paper Award, IEEE CICC (2019)
- Cornell Graduate Fellowship (2011)
- Jacobs Fellowship (2012)
- Cornell ECE Innovation Award (2013)
- Cornell Scale-Up and Prototyping Award (2017)
PhD Students
Current doctoral researchers advancing the frontiers of integrated electronics.
Md Hedayatullah Maktoomi
PhD student
RF/microwave and power amplifier design
B. Engg. from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2015), M.S. from Washington State University (2020). Intern and research assistant at IIIT Delhi (2016-2017) on passive RF/microwave circuits. RF engineering intern at Wolfspeed Inc. (2019) working on Doherty power amplifier design. Published in IEEE TCAS-II and IEEE TMTT. Frequent reviewer for multiple IEEE journals.
Mahdi Alesheikh
PhD student
Analog/RF circuits
BSc in Electronics from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. BSc thesis on IoT circuits under Prof. Safarian. MSc in ECE from University of Alberta, with master's work on RFIC and microwave circuits under Prof. Karumudi and Hossain. Currently pursuing PhD at UCI.
Yilun (Allen) Huang
PhD student
Analog, RF, and mm-wave circuits, AI-driven IC design
received the B.S. from Iowa State (2022) and M.S. from UCLA (2024). Currently a Ph.D. student at UCI, his research focuses on analog, RF, and mm-wave IC design, and AI-driven optimization for circuits and radar systems.
Zhengyang (Mark) Zhang
PhD student
Radar, Analog/mixed-signal/RF circuits
BSEE (2024) from SUSTech, Shenzhen, China, with work on integrated power management for wireline transceivers. MSEE (2026) from UCI. Currently pursuing PhD at UCI. Current research focuses on radar systems.
Mohammadamin (Amin) Montazar
PhD student
mm-wave and terahertz integrated circuits
B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis (2020, 2022). Under Prof. Omeed Momeni, designed LC VCO in C-band with thesis on low power, low phase noise VCO for PLL applications. Senior RF Design Engineer for two years specializing in military communication systems VHF to C-Band.
Yuncheng Tu
PhD student
Analog, RF, and mm-wave circuits
B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China (2025). Currently pursuing Ph.D. at UCI.
Undergraduate Researchers
Albert Huang
Undergraduate researcher
Analog circuit design
Pursuing BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCI, specializing in Electronic Circuit Design, Semiconductors, and RF, Antennas, and Microwaves.
PhD & Postdoc Alumni
Masoud Berahman
Ph.D./Postdoc
Completed PhD in electrical engineering and postdoctoral fellowship in physics. Primary research interests in two and one-dimensional materials applications in future electronic devices.
Xuyang Liu
2020-2025
Currently Staff Engineer, Marvell Technology
BS in Electronic Information Engineering from Jilin University, China (2018), MS in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University (2019), PhD from UCI (2025). Research interests in mmWave front-end, VCO and PLL, FMCW radar system.
Behnam Moradi Shahrbabak
2019-2024
Currently Senior RFIC Engineer, Kyocera
Research interests in analog, RF, millimeter-wave circuits, and system design.
Other Alumni
Xuzhe Zhao
M.S.
Tanqin He
M.S.
Pooya Khajeh
M.S.
Currently R&D Test Engineer, Broadcom
Wei Dai
B.Sc.
Mengjie (Kaylee) Xie
B.Sc.
Currently Graduate Student, Stanford
Kelly Aung Lu
B.Sc.
Annika Ageles Del Rosario
B.Sc.
Currently Hardware Engineer, Western Digital
Marcus Clark Wong
B.Sc.
Currently PhD Student, UCSC
Shihao Han
M.S.
Yankai Yang
M.S.