Postdoc Fellows
Aboozar Ghorbani-Nejad 
Aboozar Ghorbani-Nejad received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Shahid Chamran Technical College, Kerman, Iran, in 2007, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran, in 2013 and 2019, respectively. He received the Best Thesis Award for his M.Sc. dissertation from TMU in 2013. His Ph.D. work involved studies on the efficiently generation of harmonic power from transistors near their fmax and related problems. His current research interests include the design of integrated circuits at millimeter-wave and terahertz frequencies with particular emphasis on high-performance voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs), frequency synthesizers, and power amplifiers.
Ph.D.
Chen Yuan 
Chen Yuan received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.Tech) in Electronic Science and Technology from Xidian University, Xi’an, China in 2012 and his M.A.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering from UBC. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree as a Graduate Research Assistant, and working full-time at Marvell. From 2012 to 2015, he was a research assistant with Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology, where he worked on millimeter-wave receiver design. From 2015 to 2017, he was a graduate research assistant at UBC, where he workd on All-digital Phase-locked loops. He was a recipient of National Scholarship of China (2008-2009, 2009-2010), Top Scholarship of Xidian University (2009-2010), and Excellent Graduate of Xidian University (Class of 2012). He was an intern at Marvell and Intel in 2020-2021. His current research focuses on Phase-Locked Loops and wireline links.
Md Nazmul Hasan 
Md Nazmul Hasan was born, and schooled at Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received B.Sc. Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar (UET Peshawar), Pakistan in 2011, and M.S. in ECE from Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea in 2019. He is now working towards his Ph.D. in ECE at UBC. He launched the world’s first CST-based antenna engineering YouTube channel called Tensorbundle in 2011. From 2011-2016, he worked at Tensorbundle as the founding engineer. He was the recipient of Presidential Scholarship in B.Sc. from Ministry of Education Bangladesh (2007-2011), and Outstanding STEM Student Scholarship in M.S from Sungkyunkwan University (2016-2019). He is a current recipient of Four Year Fellowship (FYF) in Ph.D. at UBC. His research interests include microwave and mm-wave antennas and smart surfaces.
Omid Esmaeeli 
Omid Esmaeeli finished his B.Sc. program in Bioelectric Engineering in 2016. He received his M.Sc. degree in Integrated Circuit Design from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2019. Now he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree at UBC as a research assistant. Between 2016 and 2019 he worked as a research assistant at Advancom lab at the University of Tehran, where he designed and taped-out RF and Mixed-Signal building blocks. The main focus of his M.Sc. research was design of injection-locked quadrature voltage-controlled oscillators. His research interests include circuit design for silicon photonic systems and lasers.
Pegah Tekieh
Pegah received her B.Sc in Electrical Engineering-Electronics stream from the Isfahan University of Technology in 2020 and M.A.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2024. She is currently working towards her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include silicon photonics, RF and mixed-signal integrated circuits.
Jiacong Ke
Jiacong Ke received his B.S. and M.Phil. degrees from the South China University of Technology in 2020 and 2023, respectively. He is currently working towards her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia.
His research bridges millimeter-wave integrated circuit design and microwave photonics, as well as silicon photonics for high speed communications. He has authored or co-authored peer-reviewed papers in leading IEEE journals and conferences with over 50 citations to date.
Jiaqin Fang
Jiaqin Fang received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from South China University of Technology (SCUT) in 2020, and the M.Sc. degree in Microelectronics from SCUT in 2023. During his master’s studies, he worked on the design of millimeter-wave transmitters and power amplifiers. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree at the University of British Columbia, where his research focuses on the design of high-speed, high-linearity electro-optic transmitters through electronic-photonic co-design.
M.A.Sc.
Ben Cohen
Ben received his Bachelor’s Degree (BaSc.) in Nanotechnology Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2022, graduating with the Dean’s Honour List of distinction. Currently, he is a first year MASc. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at University of British Columbia and a Graduate Research Assistant in the System-on-chip (SoC) lab. In January 2019, he spent four months as a research assistant at Soochow University in Suzhou, China, where his research was focused on perovskite quantum dot solar cells. Here, he co-authored two peer-reviewed papers focusing on ligand management for improving material stability and the impacts of substituent group substitution on PV performance for all-polymer solar cells. In September 2019, he spent a semester abroad at the Hamburg University of Technology in Hamburg, Germany, studying the micromechanics of thin-film ceramics. Next, Ben completed two internships at Toyota Motors as a manufacturing engineer for upcoming vehicle powertrain and front suspension assembly. Lastly, Ben was one of the first members in a U-Ottawa based startup called Ekidna Sensing. He was a key member in developing an electrochemical biosensor into an on-the-market product. His work efforts here are currently patent pending. His research interests include silicon photonics, lasers, biosensing, and lab on a chip technologies.
Dante Prins
Dante received his BASc in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia in 2023. He is now working towards an MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UBC. His research interests include Laser design and locking on integrated circuits and silicon photonics systems.
Zahra Jamalouei
Zahra received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering focusing on Electronics circuits and systems. She then joined the University of Tehran and received her Master’s degree in Digital System Design, focusing on high-performance computing and number systems. In 2023, she joined the University of British Columbia, where she works on integrated circuits and photonic systems. Her research interests include silicon photonics, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuits.
Alumni:
 Ahmed Elsayed MASc 2016 Marvell |  Sang-Pil (Peter) Woo MEng 2016 AMD |
 Mohammed AlTaha MASc 2017 Coherent |  Spoorthi Nayak MASc 2017 Semtech |
 Hasitha Jayatilleka Ph.D. 2017 LightIC |  Ajith S. R. MASc 2017 Bonsai Micro |
 Anthony Park MASc 2018 Nokia |  Sam Lightbody MASc 2018 Qualcomm |
 Abdelrahman Ahmed Ph.D. 2020 Attotude |  Amir Masnadi Ph.D. 2018 Eliyan |
 Leanne Dias MASC 2021 Xscape Photonics |  Hossam Shoman Ph.D. 2020 Nokia |
 Mohammadreza (Reza) Nezami PDF 2022 Jabill Photonics |  Ahmad Sharkia MASc 2015, Ph.D. 2021, PDF 2022 Apple |
 Amit Mishra Ph.D. 2022 Cisco |  Sarthak Panda MASc 2024 Qualcomm |
 Dias Azhigulov MASc 2024 Synopsys |  Kithmin Wickramasinghe MASc 2024 Dream Photonics |
 Hosna Haghighat MASc 2025 Axonal Networks |  Ensiye Ghorbanpour MASc 2024 PingDSP |
 Sean Lam MASc 2024 Ayar Labs |  Daneil Julien-Neitzert MASc 2025 Quantum Recon |
 Victor Sira MASc 2025 Qualcomm |  Hassan Talaeian MASc 2025 EmtarTech |
 Hany Abdelraheem Ph.D. 2025 Nokia |  Abdelrahman Afifi Ph.D. 2024 Psiquantum |
 Mohammad Alqadasi Ph.D. 2026 Marvell |  Avilash Mukherjee Ph.D. 2026 AMD |
 Ata Khorami PDF 2026 Marvell |  Iman Taghavi Ph.D. 2026 Photonic Inc. |