Ph.D. Students
1. Omid Malekzadeh Arasteh [Post-Doctoral Scholar]
Omid Malekzadeh Arasteh received his BSEE with a minor in Economics from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL in 2015. He has been a member of IEEE-HKN and Amateur Radio Society, W9BGX at Northwestern University. Since September 2015, he’s been working on his MS/PhD studies at UC Irvine. He is a recipient of 2017 IEEE-MTT Graduate Student Challenge Award and IMS PhD Student Sponsorship Initiative. His research is focused on design of biomedical circuits for brain-computer interface.
Email: omalekza@uci.edu
2. Zisong Wang
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. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at University of California, Irvine (UCI).
From 2012 to 2015, Mr. 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.
Mr. Wang was the recipient of UCI EECS departmental fellowship in 2017. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, and IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).
Email: zisongw@uci.edu
3. Haoran Pu
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 is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at University of California, Irvine, with research interest on biomedical circuit design for brain-computer interface.
Email: haoranp1@uci.edu
4. Ahmadreza Danesh
Ahmadreza Danesh received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (Analog Integrated Circuit Design) from the Isfahan University of Technology in 2019. He was the recipient of the University of California, Irvine EECS departmental fellowship in 2019 and currently, he is working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.
Ahmadreza’s research interests include the design of Low-Power High-Speed Analog, Digital, Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits, VLSI Circuits, Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and Smart Image Processors. During his academic studies, he worked on designing high-speed digital image processors based on on-chip architectures and also on the designing of ultra-low-power Level-Crossing Analog to Digital Converters (LC-ADCs) for biomedical and internet-of-thing applications. His current research focuses on designing low-power implantable biomedical circuits for Brain-Computer Interfaces.
Email: ar.danesh@uci.edu
5. Youssef Osama Hassan
Youssef Osama Hassan received his B.S. with honors in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt in 2019. Since September 2020, he’s been working on his M.S./Ph.D. studies at UC Irvine. In 2017 he worked as a research assistant at Opto-nano-electronics lab (ONELab) at Cairo University where he was working on the circuit’s implementation of biologically inspired neuron models, and from August 2019 to Sept 2020 He has been working as an Analog Physical design Engineer at Goodix Tech. Inc.
He is a recipient of the 2019 Microelectronics Olympiad participation award. And his research is focused on the analysis and design of RF/mm-wave/THz IC.
Email: yohassan@uci.edu
6. 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.
He 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.
Email: moveisi@uci.edu
7. Mahyar Safiallah
Mahyar Safiallah received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), in 2018 and his M.Sc. degree in Integrated Circuit Design from Sharif University of Technology (SUT), in 2021.
His research interests include Low-Power Circuit Design, High-Speed Analog / Digital, Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits, Optical Communication, Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and Wireline and Serial Link Design. During his academic studies, he worked on designing a High-Speed PAM-8 Li-Fi Receiver and also a Wireless Power Transfer for Biomedical Implants. His current research focuses on designing low-power implantable biomedical circuits for Brain-Computer Interfaces.
Email: msafiall@uci.edu
8. 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
9. Md Hedayatullah Maktoomi
Hedayatullah Maktoomi is currently a Ph.D. student under the advisor-ship of Professor Hamidreza Aghasi and co-advisorship of Professor Payam Heydari. He received his B. Engg. degree from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India in 2015, and M.S. degree from Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA in 2020.
From 2016 to 2017, he was an intern and subsequently a research assistant at IIIT Delhi, where he worked on the passive RF/microwave circuits. In summer 2019, he joined the Research & Development department of Wolfspeed Inc., CA, USA as an RF engineering intern where he was involved in Doherty Power Amplifier module design, and Python programming based load-pull data analysis. He has published several conference and journal papers including in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II and IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Technique. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, IET Microwaves Antennas & Propagation, IET Electronics Letters, and Progress in Electromagnetics Research (PIER).
Email: mmaktoom@uci.edu