Principal Investigator
Ruonan Han
Associate Professor
Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, 2014
M. S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Florida, 2009
B. S. in Microelectronics, Fudan University, 2007
Ruonan is a core faculty member of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL). His research group aims to explore microelectronic circuit and system technologies to bridge the terahertz gap between microwave and infrared domains. He served on the committees of a few conferences, including the technical-program committee (TPC) of IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium and 2019 International Microwave Symposium (IMS) Steering Committee. He is the recipient of the ECE Director's Best Thesis Research Award and Innovation Award from Cornell University, the Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Pre-Doctoral Achievement Award and Microwave Theory Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship Award from IEEE, two Best Student Paper Awards from IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (2012 and 2017), as well as NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Award.
Administrative Assistant
Research Associate
Joanna Maclver
Xiang Yi
Ph. D., Nanyang Technological University
M. S., South China University of Technology
B. S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Graduate Students
Jack Holloway
M. S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B. S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cheng Wang
M. S., China Academy of Engineering Physics
B. S., Tsinghua University
Zhi Hu
M. S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B. S., Fudan University
Mohamed I. Ibrahim
M. S., Ain Shams University
B. S., Ain Shams University
Mina Kim
M. S., Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea
B. S., Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea
Muhammad I. Khan
M. S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
B. S., National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan
Visiting Scholars
Rui Ma (Visiting Scientist)
Principal Research Scientist, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)
Ph.D., University of Kassel
Visiting Students
Lingshan Kong
Visiting Student
B. Eng., Nanyang Technological University
Joshua Lewis
Visiting Student
Undergraduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Undergraduate Students
Ronald A. Davis
SuperUROP Student
MIT Undergraduate Student
Nestor Franco
SuperUROP Student
MIT Undergraduate Student
Weerachai (Junior) Neeranartvong
SuperUROP Student
MIT Undergraduate Student
Aaron Pfitzenmaier
SuperUROP Student
MIT Undergraduate Student
Alumni
Pranav Kaundinya, M.Eng. Student. Currently at Silicon Labs
Luis Valenzuela
Summer intern. Currently a Ph.D. student at UC Santa Barbara
David (Elliott) Williams M.Eng Student. Currently a Ph.D. student at Caltech
Tingting Shi
Visiting Student. Currently pursuing Ph.D. at Fudan University
Jimmy Mawdsley SuperUROP Student. Currently at SpaceX
Guo Zhang
M.S. Student. Currently at Prof. Dina Katabi’s group
Zihan Wang
Visiting Student. Currently at Fudan University
Aaron Pfitzenmaier (apfitzen@mit.edu) is a junior working towards a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. His interests include CMOS design, electromagnetics, analog circuit design, and physics. He enjoys doing origami and going for walks.
Lingshan Kong received the B.Eng. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2014, where she is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree.
Her research interests are focused on analog baseband design and wireline backplane transceiver design.
Weerachai (Junior) Neeranartvong (weeracha@mit.edu) is a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and Theoretical Mathematics. He has broad interests in analog/RF circuit designs, signal processing, wireless communications, algorithms, and control systems. He loves exploring new things.
Nestor Franco (nfranco@mit.edu) is a senior working towards a B.S. in Electrical Science and Engineering. He has a wide range of interests including microelectronic and circuit design, electromagnetic applications, neurophysiology, digital circuit design, and high speed photography. His hobbies include learning new languages, playing computer games, and playing and composing music.
Mina Kim (minahkim@mit.edu)was born in Ulsan, Korea, in 1992. She received the B.S. degree (summa cum laude) and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea, in 2013 and 2016. Her research interests include innovative mm-wave and THz integrated circuit and system designs. From Sep. 2017, She is a Ph.D. student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Publications
Ibrahim (ibrahimw@mit.edu) received the B.S. degree in Electrical engineering from National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2012, and the M.S. degree in Electrical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2016. His research interests include THz integrated circuits especially THz detectors and THz imaging systems.
Selected Awards
Potential Publications
Ronald Davis III (radavis4@mit.edu) is a senior majoring in Electrical Engineering and Physics. His research interests include signals processing, communications, and applied physics, among other areas. He enjoys playing tennis, writing, video games, and philosophy.
Xiang Yi (S’11–M’13) (xiangyi@mit.edu) received the B.E. degree, M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST) in 2006, South China University of Technology (SCUT) in 2009, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2014, respectively.
He is currently working as a Postdoctoral Associate in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Research Fellow in NTU from 2014 to 2017. His research interests include radio frequency (RF), millimetre-wave (mm-wave), and Terahertz frequency synthesizers and transceiver systems.
AWARDS
PUBLICATIONS
Email: jmac_3@mit.edu
Tel #: (617) 253-6857.
Mohamed I. Ibrahim (ibrahimm@mit.edu) received the B.Sc. (with honors) and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2012 and 2016, respectively. From 2012 to 2016, he was working as a teaching/research assistant at the Microwave and Antenna Research Lab (MARL) at the Electronics and Communication Engineering department at the same university developing Metamaterial inspired antennas and microwave passive planar structures. Currently he is a graduate Ph.D. student at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Publications
[1] M. I. Ibrahim and A. M. E. Safwat, “Metamaterial inspired penta-band monopole antenna,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 12, pp. 1684-1687, 2013.
[2] M. I. Ibrahim, S. I. Elhenawy and A. M. E. Safwat, “Dual-Band Orthogonal-Beam Multi-Standard CRLH Loop antenna,” in Proc. of European Microwave Conference (EuMC), Nuremberg, Germany, Oct. 2013.
[3] M. I. Ibrahim, S. I. Elhenawy and A. M. E. Safwat, “60 GHz Artificial Magnetic Conductor Loaded Dipole Antenna in 65 nm CMOS Technology,” in Proc. of European Microwave Conference (EuMC), Rome, Italy, Oct. 2014.
[4] M. I. Ibrahim, A. M. E. Safwat and H. El-Hennawy , “Single/Dual-Band CSRR-Loaded Differential-Fed Square Patch Antenna with Monopolar Radiation Pattern,” in proc. of the National radio science conference (NRSC), Aswan, Egypt, Feb. 2016.
[5] M. M. Mostafa, M. I. Ibrahim, T. M. Abuelfadl and A. M.E.Safwat, “An optically transparent wideband high impedance surface,” in Proc. of European Microwave Conference (EuMC), London, England, Oct. 2016.
Jimmy (jpmawd@mit.edu) is currently pursuing a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at MIT, expected 2018. In addition to THz imaging, he has a strong interest in RF/microwave integrated circuit design and industry trends surrounding 5G millimeter-wave communications, GaN, and consumer radar.
Tingting (ttshi@mit.edu) received her B.S. degree in Electronic Science and Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2008 and received her M.S. degree in microelectronics from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2011. Then, she joined China electronics technology corporation 14th research institute from 2011 to 2014. Now, she is pursuing her Ph.D. degree at State key Laboratory of ASIC and system, Auto-ID Lab, School of Microelectronics, Fudan University.
Rui Ma (rma@merl.com) received the Bachelor degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Kassel, Germany, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. From 2007-2010, he was with the Microwave Electronics Labs at University of Kassel as research fellow working on the transistor modeling and power amplifier design. From 2010-2012, he was a Senior Research Engineer with Nokia Siemens Networks (now Nokia Networks), where he focused on the R&D of enabling technologies for wideband radio research. Since March 2012, he is with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Currently, he is a Principal Research Scientist leading research projects on PA, digital transmitter, THz, as well as emerging applications of GaN. In 2013, he received the specification award by MIPI Alliance for the development of Analog Reference Interface (ACI) for Envelope Tracking eTrak specification. Dr. Ma is a senior member of IEEE and inventor or co-inventor for more than a dozen patents and patent applications.
Elliott (gadgy@mit.edu) received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2015 and is expected to receive his M. Eng in Electrical Engineering in 2016. Previously he interned at Apple in the prototyping group. His primary research interest is in exploring non-traditional circuits and devices in order to maximize performance at THz frequencies. His current research focuses on the high frequency behavior of avalanche breakdown. In his free time Elliott enjoys studying Russia, building analog synthesizers, and listening to music.
Selected Awards:
Texas Instruments Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar, 2013
Cheng Wang (wangch87@mit.edu) (URL: wangcheng.mit.edu) was born in Sui Ning, Si Chuan, China, on March 8, 1987. He received his B.S. degree in engineering physics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2008. He received his M.S. degree in radio physics from China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang, China, in 2011. After graduation, he joined Institute of Electronic Engineering, Mianyang, China, where he had worked as an assistant research fellow from 2011 to 2015.
Currently, he is pursuing his Ph.D. degree at Terahertz Integrated Electronics Group, Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Awards and Honors:
ADI Outstanding Student Designer Award, 2016
Deng Jiaxian Young Scientist Award, 2012.
Qu Yuzhi Scholarship, granted by Tsinghua University, 2007.
Publications:
Guo Zhang (guozhang@mit.edu) received his B.S. degree in microelectronics in 2015. He worked on novel electronic device simulation during his undergraduate in Tsinghua University and summer intern in UCLA. He is now trying to develop new circuits in THz range. He enjoys running, workout, traveling, music and photography in life.
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Jack Holloway (holloway@mit.edu) works on high-frequency integrated circuit design, with a current focus on technologies addressing the THz gap. He has served as a United States Marine Corps officer, an F/A-18 pilot, and a project officer at the Office of Naval Research.
Zhi Hu (zhihu@mit.edu) received his B.S. degree in microelectronics from Fudan University in 2015. Currently as a graduate student he is exploring novel ways to develop circuits and systems in the terahertz range.