NCIC Labs’ Director
Professor Payam Heydari
Current Ph.D. Students
1. Youssef Elmasry
Youssef Elmasry received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.
Youssef’s research interests include the design of millimeter-wave integrated circuits.
Email: ayohassan@uci.edu
2. Shan-Hsuan (Henry) Fu
Shan-Hsuan (Henry) Fu received his B.S. degree in communication engineering from Yuan-Ze University (YZU), Taoyuan, Taiwan, in 2018, focusing on microwave design and wireless communications. He received his M.S. degree in electronics engineering from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2021 and his thesis was on the design of a full W-band power amplifier and an E/W-band transmitter. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the NCIC Labs, University of California-Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA, focusing on analog/RF/mm-wave IC and system design.
From 2022 to 2023, he was an RFIC design engineer with MediaTek Inc., Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he was involved in the development of Wi-Fi transceiver SoC. During summer 2024, he was an RF system architect intern with Apple Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, where he worked on the circuits and system modeling of self-interference cancellation in RF front-end.
Email: shanhsuf@uci.edu
3. Mohammad Oveisi
Mohammad Oveisi received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (concentration on Electronics) from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2020. His B.Sc. thesis was on Analog Circuit Design for Biomedical Applications. Additionally, during his B.Sc. studies, he was a research assistant at Optical Network Research Laboratory (ONRL) at Sharif University of Technology where he worked on Visible Light Communication (VLC) Circuits.
Mohammad was a member of Iran’s National Elite Foundation (INEF). Moreover, He was a recipient of the UC Irvine EECS departmental fellowship in 2021. 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)/Terahertz (THz), and Microwave Circuits and System Design for Wireless Communications. Mohammad is the co-recipient of the 2024 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Paper Award.
Email: moveisi@uci.edu
4. Bassel Shafiq
Bassel Shafiq received his B.S. in Electronics and Electrical Communications from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, in 2020. His undergraduate thesis focused on the design of a low-power SAR ADC for Bluetooth Low Energy applications. From 2021 to 2024, he conducted MSc-level research at the same institution, specializing in 77 GHz FMCW automotive radar design. He then joined Si-Vision, a company located in Cairo, Egypt (2023-2024), where he contributed to the development of high-speed time-interleaved ADCs for 112 GSps high-speed SerDes.
Bassel currently pursues his Ph.D. research on mmWave circuits and systems at the NCIC labs, University of California, Irvine.
Email: bshafiq@uci.edu
5. Seungwoo Chae
Seungwoo Chae received the B.S degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea in 2024. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the NCIC Labs, UC Irvine.
My Seungwoo’s research interests include RF and analog integrated circuit design. During his spare time, he interested in hiking and playing basketball.
Email: chaes4@uci.edu
6. Xuyang Liu
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 pursuing his PhD at UC Irvine under advisorship of Professor Hamidreza Aghasi and co-advisorship of Professor Payam Heydari. His current research interest is in the area of analog/RF circuits design.
Email: xuyanl3@uci.edu
Alumni
35. Ahmadreza Danesh, Ph.D. 2024
Ahmadreza Danesh received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (Analog Integrated Circuit Design) from the Isfahan University of Technology in 2019, and his Ph.D. degree in 2024.
Ahmadreza’s research interests include the design of low-power analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits.
Email: ar.danesh@uci.edu
34. Zisong Wang, Ph.D. 2024
Zisong Wang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electronic Science and Technology from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China in 2012 and 2015, respectively, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA in 2017. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2024.
From 2012 to 2015, Dr. Wang was a research assistant at USTC, where he focused on the high-purity, high-efficiency oscillator design. From 2015 to 2017, he was a research assistant at USC, working on mixed-signal integrated circuits. His current research interests include analysis and design of RF/mm-wave IC.
Dr. Wang currently serves as a Staff Engineer at Marvell Technology, Inc., Irvine, CA. His research interests include high-speed, high-efficiency, low-noise IC design for next-generation communication systems.
Email: zisongw@uci.edu
Ph.D. Thesis: Analysis and Design of a Sub-THz 100 Gbps CMOS RF-64QAM Transmitter with On-Chip Antenna for FutureG Wireless Links
Current position: Staff Engineer, Marvell Technology.
33. Haoran (Alex) Pu, Ph.D. 2023
Haoran Pu received his B.S. degree with honor in Electrical and Computer engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus, in 2015 and his M.S. degree in Electronic Circuits and Systems from University of California, San Diego, in 2017.
During summer 2016, he worked as an analog IC design intern in NXP Semiconductor, Suzhou, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2023 with research interest on biomedical circuit design for brain-computer interface. Dr. Pu is currently an analog and mixed-signal IC design engineer at Empower Semiconductor.
Email: haoranp1@uci.edu
Ph.D. Thesis: Toward Future Brain-Computer Interface: Concurrent Neural Signal Acquisition and Brain Stimulation in CMOS
Current position: Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Deigner, Empower Semiconductor.
32. Omid Malekzadeh Arasteh, Ph.D. 2021, Post-Doctoral Scholar 2022
Omid Malekzadeh Arasteh received his BSEE with a minor in Economics from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL in 2015. Dr. Arasteh received his Ph.D. in 2021. He has been a member of IEEE-HKN and Amateur Radio Society, W9BGX at Northwestern University. He was a recipient of 2017 IEEE-MTT Graduate Student Challenge Award and IMS PhD Student Sponsorship Initiative. His research was focused on design of biomedical circuits for brain-computer interface. He is currently an Anlog IC Design Engineer at Apple Corporation.
Ph.D. Thesis: Energy-Efficient CMOS Integrated Circuits and Systems for Brain-Machine Interfaces
Current position: Staff Design Engineer, Apple Corporation.
31. Huan Wang; Ph.D. 2020
Huan Wang received the B.S. degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 2011, and the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX in 2013. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with the University of California, Irvine in 2020.
From 2013 to 2015, he was an Analog Design Engineer with Cirrus Logic, Austin, TX, USA, where he was involved in the design of audio class-D amplifiers for mobile applications. In 2012 and 2016, he was an Engineering Intern with Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, USA, where he worked on the design of RF transceiver building blocks for cellular applications. His research interests include RF, millimeter-wave (mm-wave)/terahertz (THz) circuits, and system design for wireless communications. Dr. Wang is the co-recipient of the 2024 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Darlington Best Papers Award.
Email: huanw@uci.edu
Ph.D. Thesis: Transceiver Design for Mobile Networks: Tackling mm-Wave High-Speed Link Challenges and Sub-6GHz Mobile Terminal Blocking Problems
Current position: Staff Design Engineer, Qualcomm Corporation.
30. Hossein Mohammadnezhad; Ph.D. 2019
Seyed Mohammad Hossein Mohammadnezhad received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree from University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA. He was with Qualcomm as an Engineering Intern in 2015 and 2016, where he was involved in RF circuit design in advanced CMOS technology for LTE applications. His research interests include analog/RF circuit design and mm-wave transceiver design for high data rate applications in silicon technology. He was a recipient of the 2014 Henry Samueli Fellowship and the 2016–2017 Broadcom Foundation Fellowship.
Email: mohammhm@uci.edu
Ph.D. Thesis: Circuits and Systems for Millimeter-Wave Frequencies
Current position: Cellular RFIC Designer, Apple Corporation.
29. Alireza Karimi Bidhendi; Ph.D. 2019
Alireza Karimi Bidhendi (S 15) received his B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology in 2013 and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine in 2018 and 2019, all in electrical engineering.
In summers of 2015 and 2016, he was with Indie Semiconductor, Aliso Viejo, CA, as an engineering intern, working on low-power oscillators and analog-to-digital converters. His research interests are analog, RF and mixed-signal circuit design for biomedical applications. Mr. Karimi-Bidhendi is the recipient of 2013-2014 departmental fellowship and 2014 Henry Samueli fellowship. He is a student member of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He has served as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and II, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, and IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
Email: akarimib@uci.edu
Webpage: http://sites.uci.edu/alireza/
Ph.D. Thesis: Low-Power Integrated Circuits for Biomedical Applications
Current position: RFIC Designer, Apple Corporation.
28. Razieh Abedi; Ph.D. 2018
Razieh Abedi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1991. She received the Bachelor degree in Electronics and electrical engineering from Sharif University of technology in 2013 and Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Irvine in 2018 under supervision of Dr. Payam Heydari in the area of high-frequency integrated circuits. Her current interests include design and analysis of Analog, RF, and mm-wave IC for application in bio-medical instruments and wireless transceiver.
Email: rabedi@uci.edu
27. Amir Esmaili; M.S. 2018
Amir Esmaili received the B.S. degrees in electrical engineering in 2011 from the University of California, Irvine, where he received the MS degree in electrical engineering. In 2012, he joined Sabertek,Inc. Irvine,CA as a Design Engineer. His research Interests include high-frequency integrated circuit design wireless communications. He is currently working at Anokiwave Inc. San Diego, CA which He is working of mm-wave front end circuit design Mr. Esmaili is the recipient of 2011 Fellowship Award winner of University of California Irvine, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science .The undergraduate Research Fellowship Award winner of university of California Irvine, January 2010.
Email: ababaesm@uci.edu
26. Peyman Nazari; Ph.D. 2017
Peyman Nazari received his PhD and MSc. degree in electrical engineering from UCI in 2015 and 2017 respectively. He received his B.S degree also in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2010. His research at NCIC labs was on sub-THz RF transceiver and radiator design in CMOS and BiCMOS technology. He has been with Qualcomm as an engineering intern in Summer 2012 and 2013 where he worked on design on power amplifiers and power detectors in advanced CMOS technology. His research interests include analog /RF circuit design, mm-wave and sub-THz signal generation, power amplification and receiver design in silicon technology. He has published six journal papers and 10 conferences papers.
Email: pnazari@uci.edu
Ph.D. Thesis: Millimeter-Wave and Sub-THz Signal Generation and Detection in Silicon Technologies
Current position: Staff Design Engineer, Qualcomm Corporation.
25. Anupama Bhat; M.S. 2016 Anupama Bhat received her M.S. degree under the supervision of Professor Payam Heydari in 2016. Her M.S. thesis was on “High Power and High Efficiency Doherty Power Amplifier Design at 8 GHz for Drone Applications.”
Email: anupama.bhat.ps@gmail.com
24. Akshay Mahajan; M.S. 2015
Akshay Mahajan received the B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communications from National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India, in 2012 and the M.S degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, USA in 2015. He is currently working at Apple Corporation.
Email: akshaym@uci.edu
M.S. Thesis: Design of Ultra-Low Power Amplifier Array in Weak Inversion Region for Electrocorticography (ECoG) Signal Acquisition
Current position: Wireless Module Engineer, Apple Corporation.
23. Francis Caster; Ph.D. 2014
Francis received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from UCI in 2014. His research in the Nanoscale Communications Integrated Circuits Lab at UCI focused on silicon-based millimeter-wave and sub-millimeter-wave circuits and systems-on-chip at frequencies from 5GHz up to 500GHz. His research here led to the first completely integrated silicon imaging receiver to demonstrate a measurable NETD sensitive enough for passive imaging systems. It was also the biggest RF/MMW chip designed to date by the lab, a 6mm x 6mm area-efficient beam-steerable sub-terahertz imaging receiver array. In addition to silicon-based imaging systems, his research also included investigation into silicon-based power-efficient sub-terahertz radiators, along with the development of a novel complementary mixer. Prior to his graduate studies he worked as an analog/mixed-signal design engineer at Rockwell International, and also briefly held positions at VTC and Globespan. In 1990 he started a consulting company providing design and layout services for CMOS/BiCMOS circuits and systems primarily covering baseband mixed signal ICs in analog front ends for both disk drives and DSL chipsets. He has since expanded to sub-THz frequencies. His present interests include CMOS/BiCMOS circuits and systems covering baseband through sub-THz frequencies. He holds two patents and is the co-author of several papers.
E-mail: fcasteri@uci.edu
22. Zheng Wang; Ph.D. 2014
Zheng received the B.S and M.S degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2007 and 2010, respectively and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Irvine in 2014. In 2011 and 2012 he was with Broadcom Corp., Irvine, where he was involved in the design of 60GHz CMOS radio and E-band PtP communication. He is now with Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, working on the RFIC design for cellular applications. His research interests include RF, mm-wave/THz integrated circuits design for wireless communication systems, and imaging applications.
Email: wweett9176@gmail.com
21. Pei-Yuan Chiang; Ph.D. 2014
Pei-Yuan received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in communication engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2006 and 2008,respectively. In 2014, he received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at University of California, Irvine. His research interests include millimeter-wave (mm-wave) and terahertz integrated circuit design for wireless and high speed data communication. From June 2012 to December 2012, he was with Wireless/Bluetooth Group, Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA, where he involved in the development of 60 GHz CMOS radio chip. He is now a Senior RFIC Design Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor Inc. San Jose, CA.
E-mail: peiyuanc@uci.edu
Ph.D. Thesis: Performance-Optimized Terahertz Signal Sources in Silicon
Current position: RFIC Design Engineer, Qualcomm Corporation.
20. Leland Gilreath; Ph.D. 2013
Leland was born in California in 1982. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in 2005, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from UC Irvine in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at UC Irvine with an emphasis on silicon based millimeter wave circuits and systems-on-chip in 2014. Since 2005, he has been working as an RF/MMIC design engineer in the Advanced Technologies Department at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA. Dr. Gilreath was the recipient of the Northrop Grumman Space Technology Ph.D. Fellowship Award in 2008 and the UC Irvine Brython Davis Fellowship in 2013. He is now an RFIC Design Engineer in Anokiwave Corporation ( a startup developing mm-wave IC products).
E-mail: lgilreat@uci.edu
Ph.D. Thesis: Novel W-Band Passive Imaging Receivers in Silicon
Current position: Senior Principal Engineer, Skyworks Solutions.
19. Byung-Kwan Chun; Ph.D. 2013
BK received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2002 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine, CA, in 2013. Dr. Chun is currently a Senior Engineer with the Flash Memory Design Group, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea. From 2002 to 2006, he was with Samsung Electronics as an Engineer in the DRAM Design Group, where he worked on the design and development of advanced high speed DRAMs. He interned in the Wireless Connectivity Group of Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA, in summer and fall 2008. His research interests include high-frequency and low-power integrated circuits and systems design in silicon technology.
E-mail: bchun@uci.edu
Thesis: Polar Quantizers for Next Generation Wireless Receivers
Current position: Design Engineer, Samsung Electronics, Inc; Korea.
18. Behrooz Javid; Ph.D. 2012
Behrooz received the B.S. (Hons.) and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology and Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1993 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, in 2012. He joined Valence Semiconductor in 1999, as a Senior Design Engineer. From 2003 till 2015, he has been with Maxim Integrated after the acquisition of Valence Semiconductor. In 2015, the Human Interface Business Unit (where he was a member of design team) was acquired by Qualcomm, Irvine, CA. He has been involved in design and development of multiple product lines including GPS receivers, power line communication AFEs, and is currently highly sensitive and immune to noise touch screen controllers. He is the co-author of four patents in the area of capacitive touch-screen controller architectures. His current research interests include highly integrated mixed-signal analog front ends used in communication systems, and high-speed data converters. He has extensive experience with different EDA tools and methodologies in analog and digital flows covering chip-level and back-end verifications.
E-mail: bjavid@uci.edu
Thesis: Design and Implementation of High-Speed CMOS Data Acquisition Integrated Systems
Current position: Senior Principal Design Engineer, MACOM, Irvine, CA
17. Zhiming Chen; Ph.D. 2012
Zhiming received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2007, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering under the supervision of Prof. Payam Heydari at the University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. From June 2010 to November 2011, he was with Broadcom Corporation, where he was engaged in 60-GHz phased-array radio development. In Spring 2012, he joined the faculty of the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, where he is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information and Electronics. As a former member of the NCIC Labs, he continues to do research in the areas of analog, RF, and millimeter-wave (MMW) integrated circuit design.
E-mail: zhimingc@uci.edu
Thesis: Silicon-Based Integrated Circuits for W-Band Fully Integrated Passive Imaging
Current position: Associate Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology
16. Chun-Cheng Wang; Ph.D. 2012
Chun-Cheng received the B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 2003 and 2004 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California, Irvine in 2012. From 2004 to 2007 he was with Realtek Semiconductor Corp. as an Analog/RF Design Engineer, where he was involved in the design of 802.11 a/b/g/n CMOS radio. From 2012 to 2013, he was with Peregrine Semiconductor, San Diego, CA. Dr. Wang is now a Principal Engineer working on RF/mm-wave IC design at Anokiwave Inc., San Diego, CA. His research interests are in RF and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) integrated circuit design for wireless communications, automotive radars, and imaging applications. During his Ph.D., he interned at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Sunnyvale, CA and Broadcom Corp., Irvine, CA, both involved in the design of 60GHz CMOS radio. He was the recipient of the Mindspeed Fellowship in 2011, the Center of Pervasive Communications and Computing (CPCC) Fellowship Award in 2010, the School of Engineering Research and Travel Grant Award in 2009 and the EECS Department Fellowship in 2007 at University of California, Irvine. He is a member of Golden Key Honor Society and Eta Kappa Nu.
E-mail: ccw@uci.edu
Ph.D. Thesis: Silicon-Based Millimeter-Wave Circuits for W-band Applications
Current position: RFIC Designer, Project Kuiper, Amazon
15. Eric Middleton; M.S. 2012
Eric is currently at Tesla Motors in Palo Alto, CA working with the Firmware group. He spent four years with Broadcom’s RF group doing some RF design and simulation methodology alongside RFDVT work. M.S. EE from UCI in 2012, B.S. EE from UCI in 2010. He is now an RFIC Design Engineer at Tesla, Inc.
Thesis: Design of CMOS RF Mixer and OTA for a 2.1GHz LTE Radio Receiver
E-mail: emiddleton@gmail.com
14. Amin Jahanian; Ph.D. 2011
Amin received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Irvine, in 2011. In Summer 2007, he was with Fujitsu Laboratories of America, where he was involved with modeling and design of millimeter-wave frequency synthesizers. In Summer 2008 and 2010, he was with Qualcomm Inc., where he designed an ultra-compact on-chip tone generator for calibration purposes and a real-power detector for Bluetooth and wireless local area network (WLAN) transmitter modules. In 2011, he joined Qualcomm Atheros Inc., Irvine, CA as a Senior Engineer. Mr. Jahanian was the recipient of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering Fellowship Award in 2006, the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing (CPCC) Fellowship Award in 2007, and Mindspeed Fellowship Award in 2010. He was a corecipient of the Eighth International Low-Power Design Contest Award presented at ISLPED 2008.
E-mail:jahanian@uci.edu
Thesis: Design of Optimized Distributed Circuits for Broadband Applications
Current position: Staff Scientist and Circuit Designer, Qualcomm
13. Fred Tzeng; Ph.D. 2010
Fred received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. He is currently with Oakgate Technology, a storage and software test company based in Loomis, CA, USA. Prior to that, he was with Sabertek, Inc., working on RFIC design. Prior to that, he co-founded and led the product development at ZeroWatt Technologies. Fred was the lead member of a team that won the 2009 Business Plan Competition at the Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine.
E-mail: ftzeng82@gmail.com
Thesis: Novel Multi-Channel and Signal Modulation Integrated Circuit Techniques
Current position: Engineer, OakGate Technology
12. Lei Zhou; Ph.D. 2010
Lei received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2002, the M.Eng. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of California, Irvine, in 2010. He was with Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore, in 2003, where he did his Master research on analog correlator design for IR-UWB receivers. He worked at Atheros Communication, Inc. and at Broadcom Corp. as a Design Engineer intern in summers 2006, 2007 and 2009. His research interests include analog/RF/MMW integrated circuit design for wireless communication systems.
E-mail: leiz@alumni.uci.edu
Thesis: Silicon-based RF/MMW IC’s for Gbps Wireless Communication, Automotive Radar and Imaging
Current position: Analog IC Design Engineer, Xilinx
11. Vipul Jain; Ph.D. 2009
Vipul was born in India in 1983. He received the B.Tech. degree in electronics engineering from the Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology (KNIT), Sultanpur, India, in 2004, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Irvine, CA, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He was a summer intern at Skyworks Solutions, Irvine, CA, and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Sunnyvale, CA, in 2005 and 2006, respectively. During the summer of 2008, he was a research intern at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he worked on integrated circuits for millimeter-wave imaging. From 2009 to 2012, he was with SaberTek, Inc., Irvine, CA, as a Senior Design Engineer. Since 2012, he is with Anokiwave Inc., San Diego, CA, where he is involved in the design of mm-wave integrated circuits for 5G applications. His research interests include silicon-based mm-wave integrated circuit for millimeter-wave wireless communication, automotive radars and imaging applications. Dr. Jain served as the President of the IEEE student branch at KNIT in 2003. He was the recipient of the 2009 EECS Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship and the 2005 Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing Fellowship at UC Irvine. He was also a member of the team that won the 2009 Business Plan Competition at the Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine.
E-mail: vjain@alumni.uci.edu
Thesis: Design of Novel Millimeter-Wave (MMW) Integrated Circuits for Automotive Radar Transceivers
Current position: Principal RFIC Design Engineer, Anokiwave Corporation
10. Le (Lewis) Zheng; M.S. 2009
Le received the B.S. in EE from Fudan University in 2007. He received his M.D. degree in EE at UCI in 2009. While he was in the NCIC Labs, he was working on mm-wave integrated circuits design. He received his Ph.D. degree in EE at UC Santa Cruz in 2014.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhengle
Thesis: Design and Analysis of a Current-Reuse Transmitter for Ultra-Low Power (ULP) Applications
9. Ramin Miri; M.S. 2008
E-mail: rmiri@uci.edu
Thesis: Analog Timing Synchronization and Coarse Tuning in an Impulse Radio UWB Receiver:
Trends and Challenges
8. Vipul Kumar; M.S. 2008
E-mail: vipulk@uci.edu
Thesis: Design of Concurrent Dual-Band Bandpass Filters
Current position: Principal Engineer, Broadcom Corporation
7. Deyi (Dave) Pi; M.S. 2007
Deyi received the B.E. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2005, and the M.S. degree from the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA, in 2007, both in electrical engineering. While he was with NCIC Labs, he extended the bode theory of bandwidth enhancament networks and designed several broadband amplifiers and buffers in CMOS based on this theory. He interned in the Mixed Signal Engineering Department of Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA, USA, in summer 2006 and 2007. In 2008, he became full time with the same group, where he worked on optical/backplane transceivers. In 2011, he joined ZTE Corporation, where he led the development of high-speed SerDes. In 2012, he founded NewCoSemi Technology, Beijing, China, where he is now serving as the CTO. Mr. Pi was a recipient of the 2007 AMD/CICC Student Scholarship Award and Gold Medal in the National Olympiad in Informatics, China
E-mail: dpi@broadcom.com
Thesis: Novel Bandwidth-Enhanced Silicon-Based Integrated Circuits
Current position: Co-Founder and CTO, NewCoSemi Technology
6. Aminghasem (Amir) Safarian; Ph.D. 2006
Amir (Aminghasem) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Irvine, in 2006. While he was doing his Ph.D. in the NCIC Labs, he designed a number of wideband CMOS integrated circuits based on the distributed architecture, including a distributed broadband mixer, distributed IF and zero-IF receivers, and distributed power combiner and splitter for multi-antenna radios. From 2006-2015, he was at Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA, where he was involved in the design and implementation of RF ICs for wireless communication systems. In 2015, he joined Sharif University of Technology as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering.
E-mail: safarian@sharif.edu
Thesis: Integrated Circuits for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Radio
Current position: Assistant Professor, Sharif University of Technology
5. Sriramkumar Sundararaman; M.S. 2006
Sriram received his M.S. in EE from UCI in 2006. He and Vipul designed and measured one of the first UWB 24 GHz radar-on-chip receiver in CMOS. After the school, he worked for Avago Technologies almost 7.5 years. Since 2015, he works as Junior Associate in McKinsey and Company, Mumbai, India.
Linkedin: https://in.linkedin.com/in/sriramkumar-sundararaman-92701612
Thesis: Design and Implementation of an Ultra-Wideband 24 GHz Front-End
Current position: Junior Associate, McKinsey and Company, Mumbai, India
4. Jeffery Johnson; M.S. 2006
E-mail: Jeffery.R.Johnson@ngc.com
Thesis: A Study of Phase Noise in LC Oscillators Due to High-Power Environmental Noise
Current position: Design Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation, CA
3. Ying Zhang; Ph.D. 2005
E-mail: yzhang3@uci.edu
Thesis: Design and Implementation of RF CMOS Power Amplifiers
2. Ravindran Mohanavelu; M.S. 2004
Ravi received the B.S. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, in 1998, and the M.S. degree in material science and engineering and from The Iowa State University, Ames, in 2000. He received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine. While he was in the NCIC Labs he studied the CML buffers and amplifiers design for broadband and ultra-high speed communications. He was with Int’l Rectifier from 2000-2004. From 2004-2014, he worked at Intel as staff design engineer. He is currently working at Inphi, designing 56G and 100G PAM4 transceivers. His research interests include broadband integrated circuit design.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravimohanavelu
Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Delay-Locked-Loop-Based Clock and Data Recovery in 180nm CMOS
Current position: Staff IC Design Engineer, Inphi Corporation, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
1. Weiteh (Denis) Lin; M.S. 2004
E-mail: wei-teh.lin@intel.com
Current position: IC Design Engineer, Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA
Former Visiting Scholars and Post-Docs
1. Professor Jin-Ku Kang, Associate Professor, Inha University, Korea
Research Interests: Design of High-Speed Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) Circuits and High-Speed I/O in CMOS Technologies
E-mail: jkang@inha.ac.kr
2. Professor Omeed Momeni, Ph.D. from Cornell University, Assistant Professor of UC Davis
Research Interests: Design of THz Integrated Circuits in Silicon
E-mail: omomeni@ucdavis.edu