Principal Investigator
Wooram Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Email: wbl5187[at]psu[dot]edu
(CV: updated in November 2024)
Wooram Lee received his B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2001 and 2003, and his Ph.D. degree at Cornell University in 2012. From 2015 to 2020, he was a Research Staff Member in the RF Circuits and Systems Group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he was involved with the development of high performance mmWave phased array circuits and systems and high-speed serial link transceivers for optical communication. He was also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University from 2017 to 2020. From 2012 to 2015, he was with Broadcom, CA, where he worked on multi-Gbps CMOS transceivers and data converters for broadband communication in optical, copper and backplane applications. From 2003 to 2007, he was a research engineer at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea, working on optical transceivers and links.
Prof. Lee serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE BiCMOS and Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuits and Technology Symposium (BCICTS), and International Microwave Symposium (IMS). He received the Best Student Paper Award (as a faculty advisor in 2023), and Best Industry Paper Award (in 2019) from IEEE Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2022 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) Prize (as a co-recipient), the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Predoctoral Fellowship (the sole winner) for 2010-2011 and the Samsung Graduate Fellowship for 2007-2012. He received the Best Paper Award of the IEEE Radar Conference in 2009.
Ph.D Students
Syed Mohammad Ashab Uddin received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical & Electrical Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) in 2016. He received his M.Sc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Irvine in 2020, where he worked on high resolution microscopy and spectroscopy. He is currently working towards his PhD at Penn State since 2021. His research interest includes mmWave/THz phased array IC and scalable phased array systems. Ashab received Henry Samueli Endowed Fellowship from UC Irvine in 2017. He has several high-impact publications including Nature Communications and CLEO.
Mohammadreza Abbasi received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Shiraz, Iran, in 2017, and his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran, in 2020. He is currently working toward his Ph.D degree at Penn State University starting from Spring 2022. His research interests include RF and mmWave integrated circuits design.
Liwen Zhong received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from South China University of Technology, China, in 2019, and his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania, USA, in 2021. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree at Penn State University starting from Spring 2022. His research interests include RF/Mixed Signal IC modeling and design.
Meijun Tian received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2019 and her M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2022 from South China University of Technology, China. She received her M.Sc. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, in 2024. She is currently working towards her Ph.D. degree at Penn State University starting from Fall 2024. Her research interests include sub-THz and mmWave integrated circuit design.
Ali Raza Mustafa received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, focusing on RF circuit design. From 2022 to 2023, he served as a research engineer at Pi Invent, Pakistan, working in Analog and 3D ICs. In 2024, he also contributed as an RF design engineer at RWR Pvt Ltd. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Penn State University starting from Fall 2024. His research interests include RF and mmWave integrated circuits design.
Dejan Joe Drazenovic Gomez (co-advised by Prof. Huff) received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University in 2023. He is currently working towards his PhD at Penn State since Fall 2023. His research interests include antenna and RFIC design.
Master Students
Michael Artlip (Schreyer Scholar, ARL Walker Assistantship)
Undergraduate Students
William Fleck (Schreyer Scholar)
Visiting Scholar
Alexander Stepko (Schreyer Scholar, ARL)
Alumni
Andrew Smith (Schreyer Scholar, BS,2022): PSU MS
Tanya Thapliyal (MS,2023): Western Digital, USA