Rate My Professor Hamidreza Aghasi

Hamidreza Aghasi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2011, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 2015 and 2017, respectively. During his doctoral studies, he interned at Samsung Research America Display Lab in San Jose, California, in summer 2014. Following his Ph.D., Aghasi served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan from 2017 to 2018 and as a mm-wave research scientist at Acacia Communications Inc. from 2018 to 2019. He joined UC Irvine in 2019. His research focuses on mm-wave and terahertz electronics for applications in communication, biomedical imaging, and molecular spectroscopy, including analog circuit design, high-resolution integrated sensing and imaging, neuromorphic computation, and emerging device technologies. Aghasi leads the High-speed Integrated Electronics Lab at UC Irvine, advancing scalable radar systems and bio-inspired super-resolution techniques at mm-wave and sub-THz frequencies.

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.