PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Negar Reiskarimian will join MIT as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science starting from Fall 2019. Her research interests include integrated circuits and systems, applied electromagnetics, and nanophotonics, with a focus on analog, radio-frequency, millimeter-wave and optical integrated circuits, metamaterials and systems for a variety of applications, from emerging wireless communications paradigms to Internet of Things, imaging, sensing, and opto/bio-electronics.

She received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2011 and 2013 and is currently a PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. She is a recipient of the Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award, the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Predoctoral Achievement Award, the ISSCC Analog Devices Outstanding Student Designer Award, and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship. She is also featured as a DARPA Riser and in Forbes “30 under 30” list and participated in Caltech’s Young Investigator Lecture series in Engineering and Applied Sciences and 2017 Stanford’s EECS Rising Star workshop.