ICSL

People

 

  Mehdi Kiani, Ph.D.

  Director of Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory  

  Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

  University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  Email: mkiani [at] umbc.edu

 

Mehdi Kiani was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1983. He received his B.S. degree from Shiraz University in 2005 and his M.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology in 2008. Mehdi started his Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2012 and 2013, respectively. During his Ph.D., he developed novel circuit- and system-level techniques for wireless interfacing of advanced implantable medical devices. Mehdi continued as a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech in 2014 before joining Pennsylvania State University an Assistant Professor in Aug. 2014. He was promoted to Full Professor at Penn State in July 2025. He joined the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in August 2025.

Mehdi’s research interests include analog, mixed-signal, and power-management integrated circuits/systems and ultrasound-based systems for wireless healthcare monitoring, neural interfacing, implantable microelectronic devices, wireless sensing/actuating, energy harvesting, and low-power short-range telemetry.

Mehdi is the recipient of the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Award,  Georgia Tech Chih Foundation Research Award for excellent research in the fields of engineering and health sciences, the Penn State Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Professorship, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Award.

 

Postdoctoral Associates:

Ehab A. Hamed received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and communication engineering and the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Assiut University, Asyut, Egypt, in 2014 and 2018, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 2025. His research focuses on low-power integrated circuit design, with work spanning ultralow-power oscillators, robust wake-up timers, and energy-efficient power management and improvement solutions for miniature and field-deployed systems. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he works on the design of wireless integrated circuits.

 

PhD Students:

Ardavan Javid received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2011 and 2014, respectively. For his B.Sc. and MSc. theses, he developed wireless demodulator integrated circuits for implantable biomedical microsystems. From 2014 to 2018, he worked as an R&D electrical engineer in designing circuits and developing firmware for embedded systems in medical instruments and smart home companies while collaborating with K. N. Toosi Uni. of Tech. as an adjunct instructor in the electrical & computer engineering department. He joined the ICSL in August 2020 as a Ph.D. student. His research interests include integrated circuits, biomedical circuits & systems, and machine learning.

 

Sina Razaghi was born in Kermanshah, Iran, in 1997. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering (Integrated Circuits) from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2022. His thesis work focused on the design and implementation of a charge-based continuous-time ADC for biopotential signal recording systems. Sina began his graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Fall 2022 and received his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2025. During his time at UMass Amherst, he was awarded the First-Year Seminar Teaching Fellowship by the College of Engineering, where he developed and taught the course Implantable Biomedical Microsystems. For this work, he was recognized at the College of Engineering Graduate Student Excellence Celebration. He joined the ICSL in August 2025 as a Ph.D. student. His research interests include integrated circuits, and implantable biomedical microsystems.

 

 

MS Students:

 

Undergraduate Students:

  • Ikechukwu Mbaekwe

Alumni:

Sayan Sarkar, Post Doc, 2025 (Currently at Intel Corporation)

Sujay Hosur, PhD, 2025 (Currently at Synopsys Inc)

Shengtian Luo, MS, 2025

Ritwik Ashok, MS. 2025

Sheikh Jawad Ilham, PhD, 2024 (Currently at Qualcomm)

Arifur Sarker, MS, 2023 

Aaron Belkin-Rosen, MS, 2023 (Currently at Draper Laboratory)

Krishna Keshav Kodandapani, MS, 2023 (Currently at Microchip Technology Inc.)

Shashank Sagar Mamidi, MS, 2023 (Currently at Microchip Technology Inc.)

Zeinab Kashani, PhD, 2023 (Currently at Montage Technology, Inc)

Philip Graybill, PhD, 2022 (Currently an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Messiah University)

Chris Wible, MS, 2022 

Junda Feng, MS, 2021 (Currently at Qualcomm)

Jingqian Zhao, MS, 2021

Chenyuan Zhao, Post Doc, 2021 (Currently at Guangdong Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing)

Hesam Sadeghi Gougheri, PhD, 2020 (Currently at Ferric, Inc.)

Miao Meng, PhD, 2019 (Currently a Professor at Tongji University)

Ahmed Ibrahim, PhD, 2019 (Currently at Broadcom)

Sujay Sheshagiri Hosur, MS, 2019 (Digital Design Engineer at Codelucida; Current: PhD student at PSU)

Pin Tsai, MS, 2019 (Currently at Delta Electronics, Inc., CA)

Gaurav Ramesh Datta, MS (co-advisor), 2019

Amogh Adishesha, MS (co-advisor), 2018 (Currently a PhD Student at PSU)

Enhao Zhang, MS, 2018 (Currently at Maxim Integrated Products)

Shenqi Zhao, MS, 2017

Jinbo Liu, MS, 2016

Previous Undergraduate Students:

  • Philip Ray Han, 2025
  • Reilly Schaffer, 2025
  • Wooyong Shin, 2024
  • Arya Keni, BS, 2023
  • Hsin-Ho Chou, BS, 2021
  • Erica Venkatesulu, BS, 2020
  • Conghao Liu, BS, 2020
  • Gengfu Yang, BS, 2020
  • Shengkai Xu, BS, 2020
  • Mingkai Zhang, BS, 2020
  • Yixin Xiong, BS, 2019
  • Miral Gandhi, BS, 2019
  • John Stevens, BS, 2019
  • Jacob Haiman, BS, 2018
  • Ryan Mbagna-Nanko, BS, 2018
  • Cody Dillinger, BS, 2018
  • Ruixiao  Zhang, BS, 2017
  • Yida Yuan, BS, 2017
  • Alexander Wildgoose, BS, 2017
  • Richard Pier, BS, 2017
  • Ecenaz Asku, BS, 2016
  • Andrew Liu, BS, 2016
  • Jason Ling, BS, 2016
  • Meng Kry, BS, 2016
  • Yifan Zhang, BS, 2016
  • Mike Tran, BS, 2016
  • Matt Peretic, BS, 2016
  • Philip Graybill, BS, 2016
  • Kevin O’Donnell, BS, 2015
  • Zicheng Li, BS, 2015
  • Louis van der Elst, BS, 2015
  • Viraj Patel, BS, 2014-2015
  • John Duong, BS, 2014