Hossein Hashemi received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA in 2001 and 2003, respectively.
In 2003, he joined the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, where he is currently a Professor, Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow, and Co-Director of the Ming Hsieh Institute. His research interests include electronic and photonic integrated circuits and systems.
He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (2013-2019), a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (2013-14), member of the Technical Program Committees for the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) (2011-2015), IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium (2011-2019), and the IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Symposium (CSICS) (2012-2014), a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits (October 2013 & December 2013), and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I: Regular Papers (2006-2007) and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II: Express Briefs (2004-2005). He was the recipient of the 2008 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award, the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Junior Faculty Research Award (2008). He was recognized as a Distinguished Scholar for the Outstanding Achievement in Advancement of Engineering by the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (2011). He was a corecipient of the 2004 IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits Best Paper Award and the 2007 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper.
Dr. Hashemi was the cofounder and chief technology officer of Abtum Inc., a USC start-up company focusing on commercializing radio frequency frontend components. Abtum Inc. was acquired in December 2018.
Current PhD Students
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Samer Idres
- B.Sc., ECE, Ain Shams University, Egypt
- M.Sc., ECE, Ain Shams University, Egypt
- Ph.D. Student, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Vinay Chenna
- B.Tech., EE, IIT Madras, India
- Ph.D. Student, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Yongwei Ni
- B.S., Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
- M.S., ECE, University of Southern California, USA
- Ph.D. Student, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Thilina Ambagahawaththa
- B.S., University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
- M.S., University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
- Ph.D. Student, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Farshad Serat Nahaei
- B.S., University of Tabriz in Iran
- M.S., University of Tabriz in Iran
- Ph.D. Student, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Current Postdoctoral Scholars, Research Associates, and Visiting Scholars
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Masayuki Okano
- Ph.D., Physics, Kyoto University, Japan
- Visiting Scholar, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California
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Current MS Students
Current BS Students
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Matthew Liberson
- Sophomore, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Richard Huang
- Sophomore, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Will Volpe
- Freshman, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Abel Aguilar
- Junior, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Frida Hill
- Freshman, Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Leon Durrenberger
- Sophomore, Dept. of Computer Science
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Xiaoli Tang |
Former PhD Students
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Harish Krishnaswamy (Jan. 2009)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Architectures and integrated circuits for RF and mm-wave multiple-antenna systems on silicon [pdf]
- Current Status: Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
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Ta-Shun Chu (Sep. 2010)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Silicon-based broadband short-range radar architectures and implementations [pdf]
- Current Status: Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
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Ankush Goel (Sep. 2010)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Integrated multi-band and wideband reconfigurable wireless receivers [pdf]
- Current Status: Senior Member of Technical Staff, nusemi Inc., San Jose, CA
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Firooz Aflatouni (Sep. 2011)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Electronically assisted relative and absolute phase control of semiconductor lasers [pdf]
- Current Status: Associate Professor, Electrical & Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Zahra Safarian (Feb. 2014)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Energy aware integrated circuits for communication and biomedical applications [pdf]
- Current Status: Senior Design Engineer, Movandi Corp., Newport Beach, CA
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Jonathan Roderick (Sep. 2014)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Silicon-based wideband & mm-wave power amplifier architectures and implementations [pdf]
- Current Status: High-Frequency RF Design Engineer, Teledyne Scientific Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA
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Run Chen (Oct. 2015)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Integrated reconfigurable wireless receivers supporting carrier aggregation [pdf]
- Current Status: Faculty, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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Kunal Datta (Oct. 2016)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: High power, highly efficient, millimeter-wave, switching power amplifiers for watt-level high-speed silicon transmitters [pdf]
- Current Status: Staff Electrical Engineer, Skyworks Solutions Inc., San Jose, CA
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Alireza Imani (Oct. 2016)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Wideband low phase-noise RF and mm-wave frequency generation [pdf]
- Current Status: Principal Analog Design Engineer, Inphi Corporation, Irvine, CA
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Hooman Abediasl (Jan. 2017)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Integrated large-scale monolithic electro-optical systems in standard SOI CMOS process [pdf]
- Current Status: Director of Sensing Technologies, Rockley Photonics, Pasadena, CA
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Sushil Subramanian (May 2017)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Mixed-signal integrated circuits for interference tolerance in wireless receivers and fast frequency hopping [pdf]
- Current Status: Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR
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Pingyue Song (October 2020)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: RF and mm-wave blocker-tolerant reconfigurable receiver frontends
- Current Status: Staff Engineer, MediaTek, San Jose, CA
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Aria Samiei (December 2021)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Bidirectional Neural Interfaces for Neuroprosthetics
- Current Status: Touch EE Engineer, Apple, San Diego, CA
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Masashi Yamagata (May 2021)
- Ph.D. Dissertation: Surface Acoustic Wave Waveguides for Signal Processing at Radio Frequencies
- Current Status: Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR
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Former Postdoctoral Scholars, Research Associates, and Visiting Scholars
- Mahmood Bagheri (12/08–04/09)
Current Position: Microdevices Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
- SangHyun Chang (01/09–07/11)
Current Position: Principal Engineer, Samsung Electronics, South Korea
- Behnam Analui (09/09–05/14)
Current Position: Cofounder, Stealth-mode startup company, Irvine, CA
- Hongrui Wang (02/12–09/13)
Current Position: RF/mm-wave IC Designer, Apple, Cupertino, CA
- Ankush Goel (05/12–02/15)
Current Position: Cofounder, Stealth-mode startup company, San Jose, CA
- Marcelo Segura (10/12–12/14)
Current Position: Project Manager CART, CONICET, Argentina
- Makoto Nakai (03/17 – 02/20)
Current Position: Engineer, Toyota Central R&D Labs, Japan
- SungWon Chung (10/2014 – 04/2019)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Utsunomiya University, Japan
- Keisuke Kondo (10/2018 – 03/2020)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Utsunomiya University, Japan
Former MS and MEng Students
- Kenneth Newton (MS, 03/04–05/05)
- Sunghwan Kim (MS, 05/04–05/05)
- Bizhan Delgoshaei (MS, 05/05–08/05)
- Sang Lee (MS, 05/05–03/06)
- Omeed Momeni (MS, 06/05–12/06)
- Darshan Kadia (MS, 06/07–12/07)
- Timothy Mercer (MS, 08/08–05/10)
- Chenliang Du (MEng, 05/10–09/14)
- Shirin Vakilian (MS, 01/11–01/13)
- Haotian Duan (MS, 01/14–06/14)
- Balkrushna Kankotiya (MS, 08/16–12/16)
- Kaustubh Chaudhari (MS, 01/16–12/16)
Former BS Students
- Richard Huang (01/19 – 01/20)
- Will Volpe (11/19 – 05/21)
- Anish Mondal (06/21–09/21)
- Kaushik Sengupta (06/05–08/05)
- Cindy Goh (05/05–10/05)
- Arka Majumdar (06/06–08/06)
- Timothy Mercer (05/07–07/08)
- Katherine Elis (09/08–09/09)
- Eric Kawalsky (09/08–12/08)
- Kunal Datta (06/09–08/09)
- Noam Weinberger (06/11–08/11)
- Soyoung Kang (01/11–04/11)
- Rittik Shah (01/11–08/11)
- Siddhartha Sarkar (06/13–08/13)
- Sudipta Biswas (06/14–08/14)
- Alex Allsup (09/16–12/16)
- Saransh Sharma (06/16–08/16)
- Richelle Smith (01/17–05/17)
- Ilija Hristovski (06/17–08/17)
- Abhishek Agarwal (05/18–07/18)
- Vinay Chenna (05/18–07/18)
- Vishal Choudhari (05/19–07/19)