People
Aydin Babakhani
Principal Investigator, Lab Director
Dr. Babakhani is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCLA and the Director of the UCLA Integrated Sensors Laboratory. Prior to joining UCLA, he was an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University and the Director of Rice Integrated Systems and Circuits Laboratory. He was a Louis Owen Junior Chair Assistant Professor (2016-2017) and Assistant Professor of ECE (2011-2016) at Rice University. He was a member of DARPA Microsystems Exploratory Council (MEC) from 2017 to 2021. He is a co-founder of Maxwell Biomedical Inc., Nervonik Inc., and MicroSilicon Inc. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2003 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech in 2009 and a research scientist at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 2010.
Dr. Babakhani has been awarded multiple best paper awards, including the Best Paper Award at the IEEE SiRF conference in 2016, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE RWS Symposium in 2015, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE IMS Symposium in 2014, and the 2nd-place in the Best Paper Awards at the IEEE APS Symposium 2016 and IEEE IMS Symposium 2016. He was a plenary speaker in the International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference in 2018 and a plenary speaker in the International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz) in 2017. He has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings as well as 30 issued or pending patents. His research is supported by NSF, NIH, DOE, DARPA, AFOSR, ONR, the W. M. Keck Foundation, SRC, and more than 10 companies. He won a Nokia Bell Labs Prize in 2018, a prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2015, an Innovation Award from Northrop Grumman in 2014, and a DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2012. He also received the Caltech Electrical Engineering Department’s Charles Wilts Best PhD Thesis Prize for his work titled “Near-Field Direct Antenna Modulation.” He was the recipient of the Microwave Graduate Fellowship in 2007, the Grand Prize in the Stanford-Berkeley-Caltech Innovators Challenge in 2006, the Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award in 2005, as well as a Caltech Special Institute Fellowship and an Atwood Fellowship in 2003. He was also the Gold Medal winner at both the National Physics Competition in 1998 and the 30th International Physics Olympiad in Padova, Italy, in 1999.
Current Students
Iman Habibagahi
PhD Student
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
BS: Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Hamid Jafari Sharemi
PhD Student
MS: Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
BS: Electrical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University
Wei Sun
PhD Student
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
BS: Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Jaskirat Singh Virdi
PhD Student
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
BS: Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Roshan P. Mathews
PhD Student
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
BS: Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
Benyamin Fallahi Motlagh
PhD Student
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
BS: Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Omid Farsi
MS/PhD Student
BS: Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Alumni
Dr. Sidharth Thomas
Senior Mixed Signal Design Engineer, Nvidia
PhD: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
BS: Electronics and Communication Engineer, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Dr. Sam Razavian
RFIC Design Engineer, Apple
PhD: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
BS: Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Arkaprova Ray
Design Engineer, Skyworks Solutions
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
BS: Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Dr. Mostafa Hosseini
Senior RFIC Design Engineer, Qualcomm
PhD: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
BS: Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Dr. Charles Chen
PhD Student, Senior RF/mm-wave IC Design Engineer, Samsung Electronics
PhD: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
MS: Electrical Engineering, Purdue University
BS: Electrical Engineering, University of Texas Austin
Dr. Peiyu Chen
Wireless Design Engineer, Apple Inc.
PhD: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
BS: Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University
Dr. Hongming Lyu
Postdoctoral Scholar
Postdoctoral Scholar: Rice University
Postdoctoral Scholar: University of California San Diego
PhD: Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
BS: Electrical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Dr. Babak Jamali
Postdoctoral Scholar
PhD: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
BS: Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Dr. Jaeeun Jang
Postdoctoral Scholar
Postdoctoral Scholar: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
PhD: Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
MS: Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
BS: Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Dr. Xuebei Yang
Analog IC Design Engineer, Apple
PhD: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
BS: Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Mrunmayee Wankhade
Platform Architect, Intel Corporation
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
BS: Visveswaraya National Institute of Technology
Dr. Mohammad M. Assefzadeh
Analog RF IC Design Engineer, Keysight
Postdoctoral Scholar: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
PhD: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
BS: Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Dr. Yuxiang Sun
Senior Analog and Mixed-signal Circuit Design Engineer, Marvell Semiconductor
PhD: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
BS: Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University
Dr. Hamed Rahmani
Assistant Professor, New York University
PhD: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
BS: Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Yash Mehta
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
BS: Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Hanni Alhowri
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
BS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Haven
Sai Kumar Madem
Electrical Engineer at Tesla
MS: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
BS: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Sakthi Visalakshi Chidambaram: MS Student, Analog Design Engineer at Texas Instruments
Zeyu Wang: MS Student, Software Engineer at Yahoo
Suparno Pal: MS Student, iPhone Hardware Design Engineer at Apple
Hidemasa Mitsui: MS Student, iPhone System Design Engineer at Apple
Tulong Yang: MEE student, Design Engineer at Texas Instruments
Yaswanth Cherivirala: Master’s student, Graduate Student at University of Michigan
Michelle Jin: Undergraduate student, Hardware Engineer at Oracle
Luis Flores: Undergraduate student, Software Developer at General Motors
Fabio Usher: Undergraduate student, Graduate Student at Caltech
Xuyang Lu: Undergraduate student, Graduate Student at Princeton
Zehua Arthur Jin: Undergraduate student, Graduate Student at Rice
Eddie Reyes: Undergraduate student, Graduate Student at Rice
Previous Faculty Visitors and Research Scholars:
Dr. Hua Xia: Chief Scientist at Oil/Gas Energy Company
Prof. Weidong Kuang: Associate Professor at UTPA