HIE Lab | UC Irvine - High-speed Integrated Electronics

People

Our Team

Meet the researchers driving innovation in high-frequency integrated electronics at UCI.

Prof. Hamidreza Aghasi

Assistant 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, IEEEIEEE Solid-State Circuits SocietyIEEE 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)

Researchers

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.

Allen (Yilun) Huang

PhD Student

Analog, RFmm-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.

Mark (Zheng-yang) Zhang

PhD Student

Analog/mixed-signal/RF circuits

BSEE from SUSTech, Shenzhen, China, with work on integrated power management for wireline transceivers. Currently pursuing PhD at UCI. Research interests in analog/mixed-signal/RF circuits and 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, RFmm-wave circuits

B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China (2025). Currently pursuing Ph.D. at UCI.

Undergrads

Undergraduate Researchers

Wei Dai

Undergraduate Researcher

Digital and analog circuits

Pursuing BSc in Electrical Engineering at UCI with specialization in Electronic Circuit Design.

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.

Alumni

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

Now at 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.