Rate My Professor Aydin Babakhani

Aydin Babakhani serves as Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University within the Engineering faculty. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2003, M.S. degree in 2005, and Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology in 2009, where he was awarded the Charles Wilts Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in electrical engineering. Babakhani joined Rice University in 2011 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, advancing to Louis Owen Junior Chair Assistant Professor in 2016-2017 and Associate Professor until 2017. During his tenure at Rice, he established and led the Rice Integrated Systems and Circuits Laboratory. Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he directs the Integrated Sensors Laboratory.

His research interests encompass millimeter-wave and terahertz integrated circuits and on-chip antennas, wirelessly-powered CMOS sensors and actuators, biomedical circuits, and medical implants. At Rice, his team set a record for generating and transmitting eight-picosecond terahertz pulses and pioneered terahertz technologies for high-speed communications, advanced imaging, and sensing applications including security screening and spectroscopy. Babakhani has received numerous accolades, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2016 for a five-year $500,000 grant to develop terahertz chips, DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2012, Keck Foundation Award in 2014, DURIP Award from AFOSR in 2014, and multiple best paper awards such as first place at IEEE International Microwave Symposium in 2014, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium in 2015, and IEEE SiRF Symposium in 2016. His publications include "A Full-Duplex Single-Chip Transceiver With Self-Interference Cancellation" (IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2016) and "Solving Large-Scale Hybrid Circuit-Antenna Problems" (IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2011). With over 6,400 citations on Google Scholar, his contributions have significantly influenced integrated sensors, antennas, energy harvesting, and millimeter-wave systems.