EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017- Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, MI, USA
“Secure and Efficient Communication for Distributed IoT Network” Mentor: Prof. David Blaauw
High Data-rate Communication and Efficient Signal Generation for 5G and Beyond (In collaboration with U-M RADLAB and UCSB).
2012- 2017 PhD in Electrical Engineering (Electronic Circuits and Systems)
University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Thesis Title, “Enabling Mm-wave Circuit and Scalable System Techniques for High Data Rate Communication”
Advisor: Prof. James Buckwalter, Co-advisor: Prof. Peter Asbeck.
2009- 2011 Master of Science in Electrical Engineering with Honor
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
GPA: 19.15/20 (Ranked 1st).
Thesis Title, “Fabrication and Design of CMOS Interface Circuit for MEMS Capacitive Accelerometer with µg Resolution”
Advisor: Prof. Mohammad Yavari.
2005- 2009 Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with Honor
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran (Ranked 1st).
2001- 2005 Diploma in Mathematics & Physics
Farzanegan High School (NODET: National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents), Tehran, Iran.
- Broadband, energy-efficient, reconfigurable, and high data rate RF, mm-wave, and THz integrated circuits and systems for future wireless communications (5G and beyond) and imaging/sensing applications.
- Security and connectivity of IoTs, low-power IoT communication, cooperative and distributed communications, secret key generation in physical layer, and designing low-power protocols resilient to passive and active attacks.
- Biology and nature inspired electronics for bio applications.
- Selected as 2019 EECS Rising Star by MIT launched Rising Star Program.
- Selected as 2020 ISSCC Rising Star by IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.
- Awarded MTT-s Chapter Chair Travel Grant, 2019.
- Recipient of the University of Michigan Postdoctoral Fellowship, (2017-2020).
- Recipient of Departmental Fellowship of the University of California- San Diego (2012-2013).
- Recipient of the Exceptional Talents Award for Entering the Graduate School without Qualification Exam, 2009.
- Ranked 1st and Honored Member of Exceptional University Talents in Graduate Program, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic).
- Ranked 1st and Honored Member of Exceptional University Talents in Undergraduate Program, Shahid Beheshti University.
- Semi-finalist of Iranian National Physics Olympiad, 2004.
- Vice chair of IEEE Southeastern Michigan (Microwave Theory and Technique chapter).
- IEEE MTT-s Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (DML) talk series organizer at Southern Michigan
- Journal Reviewer for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (T-MTT), IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL), Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC), IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), and International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
- Invited Talk at UC-Irvine, Mar. 15th, 2019, Host: Prof. Payam Heydari.
- Invited Talk at IEEE MTT-AP Society, Columbus Chapter, Ohio State University, Mar. 4th, 2019, Host: Prof. Waleed Khalil.
- Conference Speaker at IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), Jun. 2019, Boston, USA.
- Conference Speaker at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlOBECOM), Dec. 2018, Abu Dahbi, UAE.
- Conference Speaker at IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Symposium (RFIC), Jun. 2017, Honolulu.
- Conference Speaker at IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Symposium (RFIC), Jun. 2016, San Francisco, USA.
- Conference Speaker at International Conference on Application in Nonlinear Dynamics (ICAND), Aug. 2016, Denver, USA.
- Conference Speaker at IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Aug. 2011, Seoul, South Korea.
- Teaching Assistant: Communication Circuit Design I and II, UC-San Diego.
- Teaching Assistant: Theory and Technology of Solid State Device I and II, Amirkabir University of Technology.
- Teaching Assistant: Data Converters (A/D and D/A), Amirkabir University of Technology.