Nezih Tolga Yardimci

yardimci@ucla.edu

Nezih Tolga Yardimci received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 2012, his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in 2014, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles in 2017. He was a member of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory during his graduate studies and conducted research on large area plasmonic nanoantenna arrays for high-power terahertz generation and high-sensitivity terahertz detection. He served as a postdoctoral scholar at the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory from 2017 to 2018. The outcome of his research has appeared in 20 journal and 60 conference papers. Tolga has received many prestigious awards during his graduate studies including the Henry Samueli UCLA School of Engineering Fellowship, SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics, Best Student Paper Award (3rd Place) at the International Conference of International Society of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves,and the UCLA Biomedical Innovation Award. In 2019, he co-founded Lookin, Inc, a spinoff company from Terahertz Electronics Laboratory with the aim of commercializing the terahertz scanner technologies developed in the group. He is currently the CEO and President of Lookin, Inc. and an Assistant Researcher at UCLA.

Xurong Li

xurongli@ucla.edu

Xurong Li received his B.S. degree in Microelectronics from Peking University in 2016 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles in 2018 and 2022. His research is focused on terahertz focal-plane arrays for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and imaging. He is the recipient of CESASC scholarship in 2018 and summer mentor research scholarship in 2021. He is now a postdoctoral scholar in Terahertz Electronics Laboratory.

Anis Moradikouchi

anismrd@g.ucla.edu

Anis Moradikouchi has been a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA Terahertz Electronics Laboratory since July 2023. Her research interests include terahertz sensing systems with a focus on pharmaceutical applications. As an industrial PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, Anis worked with AstraZeneca from 2018 to 2023 on the characterization of pharmaceutical powders and tablets using terahertz radiation.

Yifan Zhao

yifanzhao@ucla.edu

Yifan Zhao received his B.S. degree in Physics from Peking University in 2017. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Joseph Hwang

jjasper@ucla.edu

Joseph Hwang received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2019. He is currently pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Xinghe Jiang

xinghej@g.ucla.edu

Xinghe Jiang received his B.S. degree in Electronics and Information Science and Technology from Peking University in 2018, and his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles in 2020. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Parimi Vivek Muralikrishna

vivekparimi@g.ucla.edu

Vivek Parimi received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore in 2020. He is currently pursuing his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Anika Tabassum

atabassum@g.ucla.edu

Anika Tabassum received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2018. She is currently a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Tianyi Gan

tygan@g.ucla.edu

Tianyi Gan received his B.S. degree in Physics from Peking University in 2021. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Szu-An Tsao

sean821115@g.ucla.edu

Szu-An Tsao received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in 2016 and his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018. He served in DiCon Fiberoptics as a product engineer from 2019 to 2021. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Shahed-E-Zumrat

sezumrat@g.ucla.edu

Shahed-E-Zumrat received her B.Sc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2021. She is currently pursuing her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ali Jabbari

alijabbari33@ucla.edu

Ali Jabbari received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Physics from Sharif University of Technology in 2022. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ali is the recipient of a gold medal at the Iranian National Physics Olympiad in 2016. As extracurricular activities, he plays Violin and Viola and enjoys playing in classical orchestras.

Sung Ho Park

Sung Ho Park received his B.S. degree from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2012. He was a member of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory during his undergraduate studies and received the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Undergradute/Pre-Graduate Scholarship for his research on developing antenna models for photoconductive antennas radiating at terahertz frequencies. Additionally, he won the 3rd and 5th place in International Marine Advanced Technology Education ROV Competition in 2007 and 2008, and received a letter of recognition from U.S. congress and Texas Senate. Sung Ho is currently a hardware development engineer at Microsoft.

Shenglin Li

Shenglin Li received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2011. He received his M.S. degree from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2012. He was a member of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory during his graduate studies and conducted research on reconfigurable meta-surfaces for broadband terahertz modulation. He is currently a Wireless SOC Test Engineer at Apple.

Mehmet Unlu

Mehmet Unlu received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey in 2001, 2003, and 2009, respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at METU-MEMS Center in 2009. He served as a research scientist at Cornell Nanoscale Science and Technology Facility (CNF), Ithaca, NY between 2009 and 2011, while he was working for Utah State University, Logan, UT. He served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 2011 to 2012. Between 2012 and 2018, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University. He is currently an Associate Professor at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. His major research interests are terahertz components, plasmonics, optoelectronics, NEMS, and reconfigurable circuits and antennas for microwave and millimeter-wave applications. Prof. Unlu received the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Ph.D. Scholarship between 2003 and 2009, the Prof. Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation-METU Thesis of the Year Award in 2009 for his Ph.D. dissertation, Best Student Paper Award (2nd place) in IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and Best Student Paper Award (3rd place) in IEEE International Microwave Symposium in 2013, Prof. Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation Research Encouragement Award in 2013, International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award in 2014, and Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award in 2015. Prof. Unlu is a senior member of IEEE.

Christopher Berry

Christopher Berry received his BSE, MSE, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2007, 2010, 2013). He was a member of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory during his graduate studies and conducted research on plasmonic photoconductors for high-performance terahertz radiation sources. He has received several prestigious awards and scholarships during his undergraduate and graduate studies including the William J. Branstrom Freshman Prize, James B. Angell Scholar Award, Michigan Merit Award, Regent Merit Scholarship, Motorola Merit Scholarship, Michigan Space Grant Consortium Fellowship, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award, International Microwave Symposium Best Student Paper Award (3rd place), and IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting Best Student Paper Award (2nd place). He is currently a Postdoctoral Appointee at Sandia National Laboratories. He is currently an Optical Engineer at Facebook.

Soroosh Hemmati

Soroosh Hemmati received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering with minors in pure mathematics and physics, from the University of Calgary in 2014 and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Los Angeles in 2015. He was a member of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory during his masters studies and conducted research on three-dimensional plasmonic photoconductors for high-efficiency terahertz sources. He was the top student of class of 2014 at the University of Calgary for which he was awarded the APEGA Past Presidents' Gold Medal in Electrical Engineering and featured as a distinguished graduating student on the university website. In addition, he was a recipient of Seymour Schulich Academic Excellence Entrance Scholarship (2010-2013), Louise McKinney Scholarship (2010-2013), NSERC Scholarship for Undergraduate Research (2012), Dean Wirasinghe Scholarship in Engineering (2011), Henry Samueli Fellowship (2015), and was the sole male nominee of University of Calgary for C.D. Howe scholarship (2011). He competed in numerous mathematics and physics Olympiad competitions in Canada, in which he scored consistently among the top three in the province of Alberta, and top ten nationally, in AHSMC, COMC, CMO, USAMO, APMO, and CAP exam, and was therefore selected as a finalist for both the mathematics and physics international Olympiad teams of Canada (2010). He is currently a Software Developer at Yahoo.

Xiao Li

Xiao Li received her B.S. degree in optoelectronic engineering from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in 2014 and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016. She was a member of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory during her graduate studies and conducted research on tunable terahertz wave generation based on photomixing of telecommunication lasers. She is currently an Optical Engineer at Magic Leap, Inc.

Mohammed Reza Hashemi

Mohammed Reza M. Hashemi received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with highest honor from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2004, M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2006, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011. Dr. Hashemi was a postdoctoral scholar at the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory from 2011 to 2016 and conducted research on reconfigurable metamaterials for terahertz wave modulation and beam-forming. In 2015 he was nominated by UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering Department for the prestigious Chancellor's Postdoctoral Award and he was selected among the top 26 UCLA postdocs from all departments and recognized for his excellent research achievements. He was also the recipient of Melvin P. Bloom Memorial Graduate Fellowship, Hervey Engineering Scholarship, Educational Opportunity Grant, Charles Chun Engineering Scholarship, and University of Nevada, Reno General Scholarship. He is currently a Design Engineer at Samsung Research America, Inc.

Ning Wang

Ning Wang received her B.S. in electrical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China in 2010 and her MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in 2012 and 2016, respectively. She was a member of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory during her graduate studies and conducted research on high-sensitivity terahertz receivers based on plasmonic photoconductors. She has received the University of Michigan College of Engineering Graduate Fellowship, Nanotechnology and Integrated Microsystems Student Association (NIMSA) Outstanding leadership award and the best student poster award (2nd) from the International Workshop on Optical Terahertz Science and Technology. She is currently a Research Engineer at Bosch Research and Technology Center North America.

Shang-Hua Yang

Shang-Hua Yang received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 2007, M.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2009, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in 2016. He was a member of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory during his doctoral studies and conducted research on advanced plasmonic photoconductive sources for pulsed and continuous-wave terahertz generation. He has received several prestigious awards and scholarships during his undergraduate and graduate studies including the United Microelectronics Corporation Scholarship (2007), Rotary Education Foundation Best Student Award (2008), SPIE Scholarship in Optics and photonics (2012), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award (2014), Rackham Summer Graduate Student Award (2015), and Taiwanese Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (2015). He was also invited to attend the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 2016. He is currently an assistant professor at the Electrical Engineering department at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

Nezih Tolga Yardimci

Nezih Tolga Yardimci received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 2012, his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor in 2014, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles in 2017. He was a member of the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory during his graduate studies and conducted research on large area plasmonic nanoantenna arrays for high-power terahertz generation and high-sensitivity terahertz detection. He served as a postdoctoral scholar at the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory from 2017 to 2018. The outcome of his research has appeared in 20 journal and 60 conference papers. Tolga has received many prestigious awards during his graduate studies including the Henry Samueli UCLA School of Engineering Fellowship, SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics, Best Student Paper Award (3rd Place) at the International Conference of International Society of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves,and the UCLA Biomedical Innovation Award. In 2019, he co-founded Lookin, Inc, a spinoff company from Terahertz Electronics Laboratory with the aim of commercializing the terahertz scanner technologies developed in the group. He is currently the CEO and President of Lookin, Inc. and an Assistant Researcher at UCLA.

Semih Cakmakyapan

Semih Cakmakyapan received his B.S. (2009) and Ph.D. (2015) degrees in physics from Bilkent University. He is the recipient of Ihsan Dogramaci Education Foundation Scholarship (2005-2009) and the Graduate Scholarship of Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey (2009-2015). His research interests include plasmonics, metamaterials, and silicon photonics. He is the author/co-author of 25 SCI papers. Dr. Cakmakyapan was a postdoctoral researcher in Terahertz Electronics Laboratory between 2015 and 2018 and he conducted research in plasmonics-based broadband photodetectors. He is currently a Scientist at Fraunhofer IZM Berlin.

Yen-Ju Lin

Yen-Ju Lin received her B.S and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2014 and 2016, respectively. She is currently working toward her Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She received the Presidential Award from National Taiwan University three times and is the member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society since 2014. She is a recipient of Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship: Asia Pacific (2015), Garmin Scholarship (2015), UCLA Samueli Fellowship (2016-2020), UCLA School of Engineering Dean's Scholar Award (2016), Taiwanese Government Scholarship to Study Abroad (2017), IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship for Medical Application (2018), Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California Scholarship (2018), Grace Hopper Scholarship (2018) and Yin-Chin USA Scholarship (2018). Additionally, her master's thesis won the Best Thesis Award for Young Scholars (Third place) issued by the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in Taiwan (2016). She also won the Best Student Poster Award at the UCLA ECE Annual Research Review in 2018. She has served as the OSA vice president in OSA/SPIE student chapter at UCLA since September 2018. She was also invited to attend the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 2019.

Alex Tzu-Heng Hung

Alex Hung received his B.S. degree with first class honors in Physics and Mathematics majors from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2016 and his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCLA in 2019. He was the recipient of UCLA ECE Department Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. He is currently a Software Engineer at Plume Design, Inc.

Shao-Shiuan Chiang

Shao-Shiuan Chiang received his B.S. degree in Photonics from National Chiao Tung University in 2017 and his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCLA in 2019. He was the recipient of the Irma Polaski Fellowship by the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2019. He is currently a Process Engineer at TSMC.

William Fong

William Fong received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2018 and his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA in 2020. He is a recipient of the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship in collaboration with Los Angeles Air Force Base. He is also an Asian and Pacific Islander Association (APIA) Scholar as a Laotian graduate student. He has worked with Air Force Research Labs, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Pacific, and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT). He is currently a Researcher at Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific.

Ruixuan Zhao

Ruixuan Zhao received his B.S. degree in Optics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2019 and his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCLA in 2021. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Deniz Turan

Deniz Turan received his B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 2014 as well as his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016 and 2021. He is the recipient of the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society Doctoral Grant, and UCLA Henry Samueli Fellowship. His research results have appeared in 12 peer-reviewed journal papers and 31 conference proceedings. His research interests include designing terahertz sources and detectors with unique functionalities using plasmonic nanoantennas. He is currently an Optical Engineer at Intel.

Ping Keng Lu

Ping Keng Lu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (2012/2014). He is currently working toward a Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles. He is the recipient of the UCLA Living Spring Electrical Engineering Fellowship (2015), the Henry Samueli Fellowship (2016), Government Scholarship to Study Abroad from Taiwanese Ministry of Education (2017), the Chinese-American Engineers and the Scientists Association of Southern California Scholarship (2017), Best Student Paper Award (2nd place) at International Microwave Symposium (2022), and Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Research Award from UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (2022). For his doctoral research, he worked on Telecommunication-Compatible, Plasmonics-Enabled Terahertz Sources and Detectors without Short-Carrier-Lifetime Photoconductors. His research results have appeared in 10 peer-reviewed journal papers, 24 conference proceedings, and 1 book chapter. He is currently a Sensor System Architect at Apple.