Ali M. Niknejad (niknejad(at)eecs.berkeley.edu)
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Faculty Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center
(BWRC) and Co-Director of the Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC) and the Co-Director of the Center for Converged TeraHertz Communications and Sensing (ComSenTer).
Niknejad Research Group:
Ali Ameri
Postdoc
Ph.D. (2025)
THz CMOS Flow Cytometer for BioMedicine
Suhrith Sudhee Bellamkonda
Undergrad
B.S. (2026)
Frequency Synthesis for FMCM Radar
Hesham Beshary
Postdoc
Ph.D. (2025)
Massive CMOS mm-Wave MIMO Transceivers
Haley Dave
MS/Ph.D. (2026)
Wideband Efficient CMOS Power Amplifiers
Mohamed El Gamal
Ph.D. (2028)
mm-Wave CMOS MIMO RADAR
Jose Guajardo
Ph.D. (2028)
MIMO Spatial Filtering
Rami Hijab
Ph.D. (2028)
mm-Wave CMOS Dieletric Waveguides
Averal Kandala
Ph.D. (2027)
PLL's for FMCW Radar
Awani Khodkumbhe
Ph.D. (2028)
RF Over Fiber using Silicon Photonics
Kunmo Kim
Ph.D. (2025)
High-Speed Serial Links / DSP and ADC Design
Yu Chi Lin
Ph.D. (2027)
Low Power EEG Sensors (co-advised by Kris Pister)
Masoud Masoumizade
Ph.D. (2028)
AI/Optimization of Passives for RF/mm-Wave
Sasvath M Ramachandran
B.S. (2026)
Mixed-Signal Power Amplifiers for FR3
Micah Roschelle
Ph.D. (2025)
Optoelectronics for Implantables (co-advised by Mekhail Anwar)
Saleh Hassanzadeh Yamchi
Postdoc (2027)
mm-Wave and sub-THz Power Amplifiers
Recently Graduated:
Jongbeom Baek
Ph.D. (2026)
High Efficiency Transmitter Architectures
Rohit Braganza
Ph.D. (2025)
Wideband Microwave Power Amplifiers
Yikuan Chen
Ph.D. (2025)
140 GHz Radar / Sensors and Interference Cancellation
Sanjay Chintapally
BS (2025)
mm-Wave Massive MIMO
Alejandro Hernandez
BS (2025)
mm-Wave Massive MIMO DSP
Yahia Ibrahim
Ph.D. (2027)
mm-Wave Wideband Back-Off / VSWR Efficient PAs
Nikhil Jain
BS (2025)
mm-Wave Massive MIMO DSP
Tyler Weigand
BS (2025)
RF Over Fiber using Silicon Photonics
Rahul Lall
Ph.D. (2025)
Radiation Detection (co-advised by Prof. Mekhail Anwar)
Previous Graduate Students:
| Name | Degree Goal/Year | Research Topics |
|---|---|---|
| Ethan Chou | Ph.D./2025 | Ultrawideband sub-THz Receivers |
| Ben Liu | Ph.D./2024 | 140 GHz PLLs for Radar/Sensing |
| Meng Wei | Ph.D./2024 | mm-Wave Transmitters |
| Alex Moreno | Ph.D./2023 | System Calibration of Crystal Free Radios (co-advised with Prof. Pister) |
| Greg Lacaille | Ph.D./TBD | mm-Wave MassiveMIMO Systems (co-advised with Prof. Alon) |
| Matthew Anderson | Ph.D./2023 | Beamforming RFID |
| Rawan Al Kubaisy | M.S./2023 | Linear Microwave Wideband Receivers |
| Emily Naviasky | Ph.D./2021 | Spatial Filtering in mm-Wave and RF Arrays (co-advised with Prof. Alon) |
| Luya Zhang | Ph.D./2022 | Implantable EPR Sensor; mm-Wave Imaging/Sensors for BioMedical Applications |
| Nima Baniasadi | Ph.D./2021 | sub-THz CMOS Receivers |
| Sashank Krishnamurthy | Ph.D./2020 | High Linearity Receivers (RF and mm-Wave) |
| Yi-An Li | Ph.D./2020 | Phase Noise and Spur Cancellation and Reduction |
| Hossein Shirinabadi | MS/2019 | Sub-THz Transmitter Design |
| Kevin Chen | BS/2019 | Digital Transmitters for IoT |
| Kevin Zheng | BS/2019 | Automatied SerDes Framework |
| Amin Torabi | MS/2019 | Automated Framework for DAC Design |
| Andrew Liu | MS/2019 | Low Power Receivers for IoT |
| Kosta Trotskovsky | Ph.D./2019 | Low Power Receivers for Arrays (Co-advised with Prof. Alon) |
| Filip Maksimovic | Ph.D./2019 | Ultra low power radios (Co-advised with Prof. Pister) |
| Andrew Townley | Ph.D./2018 | THz Communications Links |
| Nai-Chung Kuo | Ph.D./2018 | Reconfigurable RF Transmitter; Active Antenna Modulator |
| Lucas Calderin | Ph.D./2017 | Full Duplex Communication; Transmitter Cancellation in FDD |
| Pramod Murali | Ph.D./2016 | Chip Scale Magnetic Particle based Flow Cytometer (Co-advised with Prof. Boser) |
| Jun-Chau Chien (Prof. at UCB) | Ph.D./2015 | Near Field Imaging for Medical Applications |
| Steven Callender | Ph.D./2015 | Novel Wideband ADC Architectures; Picosecond Timing for Imaging Applications |
| Paul Swirhun | M.S./2014 | 90 GHz Radar/Imaging |
| Shinwon Kang | Ph.D./2014 | THz Chip-to-Chip Communicaiton; mm-Wave Frequency Synthesis |
| Siva Thyagarajan | Ph.D./2014 | THz Chip-to-Chip Communicaiton; mm-Wave Switching Power Amplifiers |
| Maryam Tabesh | Ph.D./2014 | RFID; 60 GHz Phased Array in CMOS |
| Jiashu Chen | Ph.D./2013 | mm-Wave Power Transmitters |
| Ashkan Borna | Ph.D./2012 | COGUR Receivers (RF-FPGA) |
| Lu Ye | Ph.D./2013 | "Digital" PA Transmitter |
| Sriramkumar Venugopalan | Ph.D./2013 | RF Compact Modeling and Power Amplifier Design |
| Jung-Dong Park (Prof. at Dongguk Univ.) | Ph.D./2012 | THz Imaging, Radar, and Communication |
| Juan Yaquian | Ph.D./2015 | High Frequency Sigma-Delta |
| Cristian Marcu | Ph.D./2011 | 60 GHz PLL and frequency synthesis |
| Amin Arbabian (Prof. at Stanford) | Ph.D./2011 | TUSI (mm-Wave UWB Imager) |
| Debopriyo Chowdhury | Ph.D./2010 | 60 GHz Power Amplifiers; Transformers for mm-wave and RF design |
| Zhiming Deng | Ph.D./2010 | Frequency Synthesis; Microwave VCOs ; Phase Noise; CMOS LNB for satellite communications |
| Omar Bakr | Ph.D./2010 | Beam forming WLAN transceiver. |
| Ehsan Adabi | Ph.D./2010 | 60 GHz Phase Shifters and Switches |
| Bagher (Ali) Afshar | Ph.D./2010 | 60 GHz CMOS Front-Ends; TUSI (mm-Wave UWB Imager) |
| Shijing Yao (co-advised with Prof. Hu) | M.S./2009 | BSIM: Compact Modeling (Multi-Gate Transisors) |
| Nuntachai Poobuapheun | Ph.D./2008 | COGUR Project: Highly linear broadband front-end designs for software defined or multiband cognitive radios |
| Wei-Hung Chen | Ph.D./2008 | COGUR Project: Broadband highly linear RF CMOS Amplifiers |
| Reza Zamani | M.S./2008 | Digital RF Power Amplifiers |
| Sohrab Emami | Ph.D./2008 | 60 GHz CMOS mixers, frequency dividers, and multipliers (co-advised with Brodersen) |
| Mounir Bohsali | Ph.D./2008 | 60 GHz CMOS Power Amplifiers |
| Babak Heydari | Ph.D./2008 | CMOS Circuits and Devices beyond 100 GHz |
| Mohan Dunga | Ph.D./2008 | Nanoscale CMOS Modeling (co-advised with Hu) |
| Joe Chien | M.S./2007 | mm-Wave Power Coupling |
| Gang Liu | Ph.D./2007 | RF CMOS Power Amplifiers (co-advised with King) |
| Axel Berny | Ph.D./2006 | Wideband RF VCOs (co-advised with Meyer) |
| Yuen Hui Chee | Ph.D./2006 | RF CMOS Low Power Transmitters (co-advised with Rabaey) |
| Stanley Bo Wang | Ph.D./2006 | CMOS UWB LNA Design; UWB Antenna Modeling (co-advised with Brodersen) |
| Matthew Muh | M.S./2005 | 60 GHz Push-Push VCO Design |
| Mark Chew | M.S./2004 | RFID Passive Component Design |
| Hanching Fuh | M.S./2003 | CMOS Power Amplifiers |
| Eddie Ng | M.S./2003 | SiGe and CMOS mm-wave design |
Post-Graduates and Industrial Visitors:
| Name | Dates | |
|---|---|---|
| Yoshiaki Yamagishi | 2022-2023 | Industrial Visitor (Azbil) |
| Dr. Ananda Chakraborty | 2020-2021 | Post-doc |
| Dr. Lorenzo Iotti | 2015-2020 | Post-doc |
| Dr. Vincent Bourguet | 2016-2017 | Visiting Professor |
| Dr. Bo Zhao | 2015-2016 | Post-doc |
| Dr. Byron Wicks | 2009-2010 | Post-doc |
| Dr. Jean-Michel Redoute | 2009-2010 | Post-doc |
| Michiaki Matsuo | 2008-2010 | Industrial Visitor (Panasonic) |
| Dr. Yanjie Wang | 2007 | University of Alberta |
| Dr. Joel Dunsmore | Fall 2007 | Keysight (Agilent) |
| Toshiya Mitomo | 2007-2008 | Industrial Visitor (Toshiba) |
| Kyeongtae Moon | 2007-2008 | Industrial Visitor (MewTel Technology Inc.) |
| Dr. Patrick Reynaert | 2006-2007 | Now Professor at Leuven |
| Dr. Ichiro Seto | 2005-2006 | Industrial Visitor (Toshiba) |
| Prof. Ana Cunha | 2005-2006 | Federal University of Bahia |
| Dr. Hirotaka Tamura | 2006 | Industrial Visitor (Fujitsu) |