Hamed Rahmani

Assistant Professor

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I am looking for motivated students to join my research group. Students who are passionate about system-on-chip (SoC) research topics and integrated circuits and systems for a wide range of emerging applications for sensing and communication, are encouraged to contact me to inquire about potential opportunities.

My group always has openings for talented post-doctoral candidates, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, and undergraduate researchers. Visit my lab site for more information.

Bio: Hamed Rahmani is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University (NYU). He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an M.Sc. from Rice University, Houston, TX, and a B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Before joining NYU, Dr. Rahmani held various industry and research positions. As a research scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, he worked on high-speed electrical and optical interconnects. He also served as a senior RFIC design engineer at Qualcomm Inc., contributing to advanced 5G transmitters for cellular applications and RF front-end designs. In academia, he was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in New York, NY, and a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, where he taught graduate-level courses in analog and RF circuit design.

Dr. Rahmani is the recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award (2025) and numerous other honors, including the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for medical applications and the Texas Instruments Distinguished Fellowship. His contributions have also been recognized with the 2023 Best Paper Award in the Journal of Microwave. He has served on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) since 2024, and the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) since 2021. Also, he is a member of "MTT-26: RFID, Wireless Sensors and IoT" and an affiliate member of " MTT-25: wireless power transfer and energy conversion" technical committees of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.

Research Interests

Integrated Circuits and Systems for Intelligent Sensing and Communication for emerging applications:

- RF/mm-Wave and THz circuits and applied Electromagnetics
- Low-Power Integrated Sensors and Systems for Biomedical and IoT Applications

Education

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, 2020

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rice University, Houston, TX, 2017

M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2014
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering

Experience

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 2022-2024

Research Scientist: Investigating Mixed-Signal CMOS circuits for high-speed electrical and optical data communication

Qualcomm, Inc. 2020-2021

Senior RFFE Design Engineer: Advanced 5G transmitters for cellular applications and RF front-end designs in BiFET, SOI, and HBT technologies.

Selected Publications

H. Rahmani and A. Babakhani, "A Wirelessly Powered Reconfigurable FDD Radio With On-Chip Antennas for Multi-Site Neural Interfaces," in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 3177-3190, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2021.3076014.

H. Rahmani and A. Babakhani, "A 1.6mm3 Wirelessly Powered Reconfigurable FDD Radio with On-Chip Antennas Achieving 4.7 pJ/b TX and 1 pJ/b RX Energy Efficiencies for Medical Implants," 2020 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Boston, MA, USA, 2020, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/CICC48029.2020.9075935.

H. Rahmani et al., "Next-Generation IoT Devices: Sustainable Eco-Friendly Manufacturing, Energy Harvesting, and Wireless Connectivity," in IEEE Journal of Microwaves, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 237-255, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.1109/JMW.2022.3228683.

H. Rahmani et al., "Towards a Machine-Learning-Assisted Dielectric Sensing Platform for Point-of-Care Wound Monitoring," in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 1-4, June 2020, Art no. 5501004, doi: 10.1109/LSENS.2020.2999031.

H. Rahmani, Y. Sun, M. Kherwa, S. Pal and A. Babakhani, "Coherent Radiation From a Swarm of Wirelessly Powered and Synchronized Sensor Nodes," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 20, no. 19, pp. 11608-11616, 1 Oct.1, 2020, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2020.2996571.

H. Rahmani and A. Babakhani, "A Dual-Mode RF Power Harvesting System With an On-Chip Coil in 180-nm SOI CMOS for Millimeter-Sized Biomedical Implants," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 414-428, Jan. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2018.2876239.

M. Wagih,..., H. Rahmani, "Microwave-Enabled Wearables: Underpinning Technologies, Integration Platforms, and Next-Generation Roadmap," in IEEE Journal of Microwaves, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 193-226, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.1109/JMW.2022.3223254.

J. Jang, I. Habibagahi, H. Rahmani and A. Babakhani, "Wirelessly Powered, Batteryless Closed-loop Biopotential Recording IC for Implantable Leadless Cardiac Monitoring Applications," 2021 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Berlin, Germany, 2021, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/BioCAS49922.2021.9644988.

H. Rahmani and A. Babakhani, "A 434 MHz Dual-Mode Power Harvesting System with an On-chip Coil in 180 nm CMOS SOI for mm-Sized Implants," 2018 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2018, pp. 1130-1133, doi: 10.1109/MWSYM.2018.8439642.

H. Rahmani and A. Babakhani, "An Integrated Battery-Less Wirelessly Powered RFID Tag with Clock Recovery and Data Transmitter for UWB Localization," 2020 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2020, pp. 460-463, doi: 10.1109/IMS30576.2020.9223821.

Awards

NSF CAREER Award 2025
Journal of Microwaves Best Paper Award 2023
NYU-IIT Joint Innovative Research Award 2023
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship for Medical Applications, 2019