Rate My Professor Hamidreza Aghasi

Aghasi has received numerous awards, including the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2025 for $550,000 to enhance radar scalability and efficiency for security, healthcare, and industrial monitoring; the NeurIPS ML4PS Reproducibility Award in 2024; second-place in the 2026 IEEE MTT-S Student Paper Competition for work by his team; the 2019 Best Invited Paper Award at IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (co-recipient); Cornell Graduate Fellowship (2011), Jacobs Fellowship (2012), ECE Innovation Award (2013), and Scale-up and Prototyping Award (2017); and selection as 'Article of the Month' in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (June 2016). He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems since 2025 and on the Technical Program Committees for IEEE CICC since 2020 and IEEE RFIC since 2024. Key publications include 'A CMOS 49–63-GHz Phase-Locked Stepped-Chirp FMCW Radar Transceiver' (IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2025), 'Broadband Harmonic-Assisted Power and Efficiency Enhancement in a 174–232 GHz SiGe Voltage-Controlled Oscillator' (IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2024), 'Sub-THz Communication Systems in Silicon: Combating the f max Barrier' (Nature Communications Engineering, 2025), 'A 0.92 THz SiGe Power Radiator Based on a Nonlinear Harmonic Generation Theory' (IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2017), and 'Millimeter-Wave Radars-on-Chip Enabling Next Generation Cyberphysical Infrastructures' (IEEE Communications Magazine, 2020). His work contributes to energy-efficient terahertz communication and advanced sensing technologies.