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 researcher at UCSF and he is heading our transnational efforts in implantable imagers and sensors, as well as novel chemistries for chip-scale molecular detectors. His hobbies are bike riding and playing cricket.
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.
PhD Students
Rozhan Rabbani
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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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.
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.
Zarah 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.
Alumni
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rohan Kumar
Rohan is an undergrad studying EECS at UC Berkeley. He is interested in circuit design and programming and enjoys playing basketball.