Principal Investigator
Negar Reiskarimian
Negar Reiskarimian received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering, from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2011 and 2013 and the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University, New York, NY, in 2017 and 2020.
She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. She is a core faculty member of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL). Her research group interests include RF and millimeter-wave microelectronic devices, circuits and systems and applied electromagnetics for a variety of applications.
She serves as a technical-program committee (TPC) of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, and International Microwave Symposium (IMS). She was a guest editor of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS) in 2021.Dr Reiskarimian received the ISSCC 2024 Jack Kilby Outstanding Student Paper Award, the 2024 IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award (1st place), the 2021 IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award and 2020 Best Student Paper Award (2nd place) at IEEE IMS. She was also the receipient of Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, the Morton B. Friedman Memorial Prize for Excellence at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Columbia University in 2020 and Columbia University Electrical Engineering Department Jury Award for outstanding achievement in the areas of circuits, systems and communications, and signal processing in 2019.
PhD Students
Haibo Yang
Haibo Yang received her bachelor’s degree in Integrated Circuits Design from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2022. Before joining MIT, Haibo worked as a research assistant in the Wireless Technology and Integrated System Lab at UESTC, the Wireless Lab at the National Institute of Scientific Research, Canada, and UIUC, encompassing research interests in RF and mmWave IC, beamforming, Software-Defined Radio, and LPTV circuits. In September 2023, Haibo joined Radius Lab at MIT to pursue her Ph.D. degree. Haibo was the recipient of Jacobs Fellowship from MIT EECS department in 2023.
Melania St. Cyr
Melania received her B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in 2023. She is the receipient of Draper Scholars Fellowship and has been working with Draper since 2022. In September 2023, Melania joined Radius Lab at MIT to pursue her Ph.D. degree.
Sarina Sabouri, co-advised with Prof. Chandrakasan
Sarina Sabouri received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley in 2023. She is currently a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her research interests include mixed-signal integrated circuits for biomedical and wireless applications. Sarina was a winner of the UC Berkeley EECS Microelectronics scholarship in 2022, MIT's Analog Devices Graduate Fellowship in 2023 and Siebel Scholar Award class of 2025.
Arda Ozdemir
Arda Ozdemir received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2025. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. During his undergraduate studies, he was a member of the Sabancı University Microelectronics Research Group, where he worked on FMCW radar front-ends. He also completed a research internship with the mmWave & THz Sensor Circuits group at IHP Microelectronics, Germany, designing D-band power detectors. His current research interests include RF/mmWave integrated circuits for phased-array and MIMO systems.
Masters and Undergraduate Students
Min Khant Zaw
MIT Undergraduate Student, 2025-2026
Ann Liu
MIT Undergraduate Student, 2026
Alumni
Soroush Araei, PhD, now at Apple
Soroush received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2016 and 2018 and the PhD degree in EECS from MIT in 2025. Soroush is a recipient of the ISSCC 2024 Jack Kilby Outstanding Student Paper Award, the 2024 IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award (1st place), 2024 SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award, 2025 MTT-S Graduate Fellowship, 2025 MIT School of Engineering Graduate Student Teaching and Mentoring Award, the 2024 MIT RLE Claude E. Shannon RA fellowship, 2024 MIT EECS Hennie Teaching Award, 2023 Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award and 2020 CICC Student Education Grant Award.
Mohammad Barzgari, Previously postdoc at MIT, now postdoc at UCSB
Mohammad received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and Ph.D. degree in microelectronics from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2014, 2016 and 2022 respectively. He was working as an Associate Postdoc researcher at MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) from 2023-2025. He was a recipient of the 2024 IEEE RFIC Best Student Paper Award (1st place).
Omozusi (Mozi) Guobadia
MIT MEng Student, 2024-2025
Will Vu
MIT Undergraduate Student, SuperUROP 2024-2025
Jose Guajardo
MIT Undergraduate Student, 2020
Deniz Erus
MIT Undergraduate Student, 2023
Samuel Calvert
MIT Undergraduate Student, 2025
Yidong Fang
Visiting Master Student from Columbia University, 2023
Olaolu Olugbenle
Clarkson University, MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) Participant, 2023
Matthew Crespo
University of Central Florida, MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) Participant, 2023