Faculty

Mekhail Anwar

Mekhail Anwar is an Associate Professor in Residence in the Radiation Oncology Department at UCSF, with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. Professor Anwar's research areas include many areas within the broad area of electronic circuits and devices.

Dr. Anwar's goal is to solve the fundamental and persistent challenge in cancer – identifying where all tumor cells are and how patients respond to treatment – opening the door to truly precision, personalized medicine.

Postdocs and Visiting Scholars

Abijeet Mehta

Abijeet is a postdoctoral scholar, and he is heading our translational efforts in implantable imagers and sensors, as well as novel chemistries for chip-scale molecular detectors. At UC Berkeley, he works on the assembly and characterization of biophotonic biosensors (CMOS based Image Sensors) for multiplexed fluorescence-guided cancer surgery. He earned the Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award and the Best Teacher Award from the University of Dayton, where he completed his doctoral studies. His research interests focus on the application of biosensors and bioelectronics in biomedical sciences. In his free time, he enjoys bike riding and meditation.

Yazhi Liu

Yazhi is a postdoctoral researcher at UCSF. She received her PhD degree from Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany. Her interests include fluorescent nanocrystals and molecules, polymer functionalization, bioconjugation, bioimaging and dancing.

Behnoush Rostami

Behnoush is a postdoctoral researcher focusing on developing computational solutions for biomedical imaging and sensing applications. She received her PhD in EECS from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She obtained her BS and MS degrees in EE from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Her research interests include electronics, sensors, and brain-computer interfaces. Additionally, she enjoys running, practicing yoga, and drawing.

Azam Gholizadeh

Azam is an associate specialist focusing on developing micro and nanodevices for diagnosis of diseases and biomedical imaging. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She has PhD in Nanotechnology, and BS, MS in Chemistry from Sharif University of Technology. Her research interest is developing portable and point of care biosensors to early diagnosis of disease and continuous monitoring of therapy. She is also interested to develop microfluidic and bioMEMS based chips for studying biological reactions such as cell-cell communications especially cancer and immune cells and using machine learning to develop -omics techniques for system biology.

Alyssa Cartwright

Alyssa is a postdoctoral researcher working on the development of an intraoperative fluorescence imaging platform for tumor resections. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Her research interests include optical biosensing and system integration for point-of-care applications. Outside of the lab, she enjoys biking, playing clarinet, and cooking.

PhD Students

Micah Roschelle

Micah is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS degree from Columbia University. His interests include biomedical circuits, implantable electronics, optics, jazz, and skiing.

Rahul Lall

Rahul is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and is working on a wearable electronics solution to optimize radiotherapy for cancer treatment. He received his BSH degree in EE from Stanford University, conducting research on giant magnetoresistive (GMR) biosensors for point-of-care diagnostics. His interests are biomedical devices, radiotherapy, basketball, and hiking.

Surin Gweon

Surin is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. She received her BS degree from Korea University and MS degree from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. She is interested in biomedical systems and freediving.

Alec Vercruysse

Alec is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College. His research interests include mixed-signal IC design and system integration, and he also enjoys hiking and swimming.

Jade Pinkenburg

Jade is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS degree in EE from Cornell University. His interests include circuit design for implantable devices, sensor development, hiking, and musical instruments.

Chandrahaas Vadali

Chandrahaas is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He received his BTech from IIT Madras and an MS from Stanford University. Before his PhD, he spent three years at Intel in Logic Technology Development. His research interests include mixed-signal IC design and personalized biomedical hardware. In his free time, he enjoys running, biking, and backpacking.

Joosung Moon

Joosung is a PhD student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS degree in ECE from Seoul National University and MS degree in EE from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include mixed-signal circuit and sensor design. Outside of research, he loves playing piano, basketball, and tennis.

Richard McManus

Richard is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS degree in EE from the University of Notre Dame. His interests include IC and quantum devices, mountain sports, and DIY projects.

Sarah Cynthia

Sarah is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. She received both her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in EEE from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. After 3.5 years of working as a Lecturer, she is now focusing on becoming a researcher. Her research interests include electronics, optics, and wearable/implantable biomedical devices/sensors. Beyond academics, she enjoys baking, painting and traveling.

You?

We are looking for students with skills across EECS, BioEngineering and Physics. Students interested in joining should apply through UC Berkeleys EECS, or Bioengineering Programs.

Undergraduate Students

Kingshuk Daschowdhury

Kingshuk is an undergrad at UC Berkeley studying Bioengineering. He is interested in chip-based biomedical imaging and optics. In his free time, he likes playing chess, piano, and watching soccer.

Aneri Sheth

Aneri is an undergraduate student in the EECS department. She is interested in applying microcircuits and machine learning towards medical devices and imaging. Outside of research, Aneri enjoys playing basketball, reading mystery novels, and hiking.

Lukas Harris

Luke is an undergrad studying EECS at UC Berkeley. He is interested in digital chips and analog circuit design. Outside of research he enjoys bouldering, making espresso, and hiking.

Yashna Hasija

Yashna is an undergrad student studying Chemical Biology and Computer Science. She is interested in nanochemistry and computational methods for diagnostics and imaging. Outside of the lab, you can find her listening to Hans Zimmer, reading sci-fi, and playing the guitar.

Aarnav Sanghvi

Aarnav is an undergraduate student studying EECS at UC Berkeley. His interests include digital and analog design, along with biomedical sensing. Out of the lab, he loves to hike, listen to horror podcasts, and try new food

Yena Kang

Yena is an undergrad studying CS at UC Berkeley. She is interested in digital chip and analog designs along with wearable biomedical devices/sensors. Outside of the lab, Yena likes reading novels and trying new things

Research Staff

Jack Bartley

Jack is a Junior Specialist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UCSF. He received his BS and MS degrees in materials science from Stanford University. His interests are flexible electronics, bioelectronics, cooking, hiking, and movies.

Alumni

Rozhan Rabbani

Now at Apple, Rozhan is PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. She received her BS degree from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. Her interests are biomedical circuits and sensors, biomedical implants, and basketball.

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Hossein Najafiaghdam

Hossein is a PhD graduate of the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS degree from Sharif University in Tehran, Iran. His research included design of imager arrays for microscopic cancer detection and use of machine-learning to enhance their resolutions. He joined Apple in 2021 and is now an algorithm/system designer for mixed-mode systems.

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Efthymios Papageorgiou

Efthymios is a PhD graduate of the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He received the B.Sc. degree from Columbia University, His PhD research was focused on biomedical circuits and systems, especially concerning devices for intraoperative detection of microscopic residual cancer. He has worked as a senior manage with SilLC Technologies. Currently, he is with Qualcomm Inc.

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Sevda Mohammadi

Now at Apple, Sevda was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. She achieved her PhD in EE from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She received M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in EE from K. N. Toosi University of Technology and Urmia University, respectively. Her research interests include, but are not limited to, circuit and system design for biomedical applications as well as sensing and detection applications.

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Kyoungtae Lee

Now a professor at DGIST in Korea, Kyoungtae received his BS degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, MS degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked on designing delta-sigma ADCs, and PhD in EE from UC Berkeley, with a focus in ASIC design for implantable bio-sensors, for cancer radiotherapy. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with Radiation Oncology Department, UCSF where he is working on applying his work to animal models.

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Masoumeh Sabzi

Now at Apple, Masoumeh was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley, focusing on developing wireless power and data transfer solutions for mm-sized biomedical implants. She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc degrees in EE from Sharif University of Technology, Iran and her joint PhD in EE from University of Tehran, Iran and University of Nantes, France. Her research interests include RF circuit and system design and wireless power transfer for biomedical applications.

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Asmaysinh Gharia

Asmay is a PhD student in the NIH-Oxford-Cambridge scholars program and studies microfluidic devices for high through-put cell modification. He received his B.A. in molecular and cell biology from UC Berkeley in 2018. His interests include autologous cell therapies, automating biomanufacturing, bouldering, and travel.

Eric Yang

Eric is a M.S. student in the ECE Department at CMU. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley. His interests include biomedical systems, robotics, artificial intelligence, NBA, and F1.

Christos Adamopoulos

Christos received his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2021. During his research at Berkeley on mixed-signal integrated circuit design and photonics, he developed the world’s first fully integrated electronic-photonic System-on-Chip for Point-of-Care biosensing applications. He received the Best Ph.D. Research David Sakrison Memorial Prize. After his Ph.D., he has been working on ultra-low-power IC design.

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Hyeong Seok Oh

Hyeong-Seok is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS from Seoul National University. His interests are Electronic-Photonic Integrated Systems, tennis, and swimming

Rohan Kumar

Rohan is an undergrad studying EECS at UC Berkeley. He is interested in circuit design and programming and enjoys playing basketball.

Averal Kandala

Averal is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley, supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. He previously received his MS and BS degrees in EECS also from UC Berkeley. His interests include implantable circuit design for disease tracking, yoga, board games, and language learning.

Zara Taufique

Zarah is an undergraduate at San Jose State University pursuing Computer Engineering. She is interested in robotics and circuit design. In her free time, you can find her reading or at a cafe sipping on coffee.

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