Biography

Amin Arbabian received his Ph.D. degree in EECS from UC Berkeley in 2011 and in 2012 joined Stanford University, as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. His current research interests include mm-wave and high-frequency circuits and systems, imaging technologies, Internet-of-Everything devices including wireless power delivery techniques, and medical implants. Prof. Arbabian currently serves on the steering committee of RFIC, the technical program committees of RFIC and ESSCIRC, and as associate editor of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters (SSC-L) and the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (J-ERM). He is the recipient or co-recipient of the 2016 Stanford University Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2015 NSF CAREER award, 2014 DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) including the Director’s Fellowship in 2016, 2013 Hellman faculty scholarship, and best paper awards from several conferences including ISSCC (2010), VLSI Circuits (2014), RFIC symposium (2008 and 2011, 2nd place), ICUWB (2013), PIERS (2015), MTT-S BioWireless symposium (2016), and BioCAS (2017).  


Education:

PhD, UC Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 2011

Minor: Department of Physics

MSc, UC Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 2007

BSc, Sharif University of Technology, Electrical Engineering (major: Communications), 2005


Experiences:

  1. Berkeley Wireless Research Center, EECS Dept., UC Berkeley, Graduate Student Researcher, 2005-11

  2. UC Berkeley, EECS Dept., EE142 (Comm. IC) Course Instructor, Fall 2010

(http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/Classes/IcDesign/ee142_f10/instructor.html

  1. Qualcomm R&D, Circuit Design Group, Summer 2010 (New architectures for next generation ultra-low power radios)

  2. Tagarray Inc, RFIC Designer, Summers 2007, 2008 (Ultra-low power RFID circuit and system design)

  3. IUST, Electronic Research Center (ERC), Research Consultant, 2004-05 (Telecomm. access for remote and rural areas)


Awards:

  1. Stanford University Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, June 2016.

  2. IEEE MTT-S BioWireleSS Best Student Paper Award, 2016

  3. IEEE VLSI Symposium Best Student Paper Award, 2014 (Awarded 2015)

  4. PIERS 2015 Best Student Paper Award

  5. NSF CAREER Award 2015-2020.

  6. Google Faculty Research Award (Aug 2014).

  7. DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2014.

  8. Co-recipient of the best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB) 2013

  9. Hellman Faculty Scholar, Stanford University (2013)

  10. Stanford School of Engineering Terman Fellow (2012)


While at UC Berkeley:

  1. IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Best Student Paper Award (2nd Place, 2011).

  2. Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 2010.

  3. Winner of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Contest, QInF 2010-11.

  4. IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Best Student Paper Award (2nd Place, 2008).

  5. IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship (2009).

  6. CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society at UC Berkeley) 2009 BigIdeas Challenge Award. Also received the Bears Breaking Boundaries Award (UC Berkeley, 2009).

  7. Finalist in the Lightspeed Venture Partners summer grant competition, 2009 (300 applications from 70 universities).

  8. Analog Devices Inc. Outstanding Student Designer Award (2008).

  9. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC CGS) Canadian Fellowship (2008).

  10. University of California at Berkeley EECS Departmental Fellowship (2005-06).