Mehdi Kiani, Ph.D.
Director of Integrated Circuits and Systems Laboratory (ICSL)
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Email: mkiani [at] psu.edu
Mehdi Kiani was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1983. He received his B.S. degree at Shiraz University in 2005 and his M.S. degree at Sharif University of Technology in 2008. He designed RF circuits such as oscillators and synthesizers during his MS studies. Mehdi started his Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2009 in GT-Bionics lab under the supervision of Dr. Maysam Ghovanloo. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2012 and 2013, respectively. In his Ph.D., he developed novel circuit- and system-level techniques for wireless interfacing of advanced implantable microelectronic devices. Mehdi was a postdoctoral fellow at GT-Bionics lab in 2014 prior to joining Penn State as an assistant professor in Aug. 2014.
Mehdi’s research interests include analog, mixed-signal, RF, and power-management integrated circuits and systems for wireless healthcare monitoring, neural interfacing, implantable microelectronic devices, wireless sensing/actuating, energy harvesting, low-power short-range telemetry, assistive technologies, and structural health monitoring.
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:
PhD Students:
Sheikh Jawad Ilham has received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2014. He has received his M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, in 2018. In his master’s thesis, he developed an ultrasonic stimulation and single unit recording setup, and studied the neuromodulatory effects of ultrasound on neuronal conductivity. He also, worked with ultrasonic spinal cord stimulation, electrophysiological recordings, and cystometric evaluations to study altered bladder functions, in vivo. He is an artificial intelligence (AI) enthusiast. He joined the ICSL in August 2019 as a PhD student. His major research focus includes developing instrumentation and systems for ultrasound neuromodulation and implantable medical devices.
Sujay Hosur received his B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India, in 2017. He received his M.S. degree from Penn State University in 2019. For his undergraduate final year project, he worked on optimization problems such as Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) applied to PID controllers. For his master’s thesis, his research focused on the Multi-modal Eyelid Drive System at ICSL. Starting 2020, he is working towards his Ph.D. degree at ICSL. His research interests include machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), integrated circuit design and biomedical devices.
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.
Md Arifur Rahman Sarker received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2017. He joined Oklahoma State University in August, 2019 where his research focus was to develop radiation hardened analog and RF circuits for extreme-environment applications. He joined ICSL in Spring, 2022 as a Ph.D. student. His research interests include analog-mixed signal IC design for biomedical applications, mmWave and RF integrated circuit design, and health monitoring systems.
Rudra Biswas received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2022. In his undergrad thesis, he developed a model of Nanoscale Depletion mode MESFET design and conducted comparative study using different semiconductor materials. After his graduation he worked as a Research Assistant on Nanoelectronic Memory Devices. His interests span nanoelectronics, semiconductor fabrication and Machine Learning. He joined the ICSL in January 2023 as a PhD student. His major research focus includes developing instrumentation and systems for ultrasound neuromodulation and implantable medical devices.
MS Students:
Undergraduate Students:
Alumni:
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:
- 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