Principle Investigator

Assistant Professor

Office: 370 Jay Street, Room 906, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Lab: 370 Jay Street, 9th floor, Room 918, Brooklyn, NY, 11021

Email: hamedrahmani[AT]nyu.edu

Hamed Rahmani is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University (NYU). He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), an M.Sc. degree from Rice University, Houston, TX, and a B.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Before joining NYU, he held multiple industry and research positions. As a research scientist, he worked with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights on high-speed electrical/optical interconnects. He was an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in New York, NY, and a visiting lecturer at Princeton University, where he offered graduate-level courses in analog and RF circuit design. He was also a senior RFIC design engineer at Qualcomm Inc., where he focused on advanced 5G transmitters for cellular applications and RF front-end designs.

He is also the recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships including the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for medical applications and the Texas Instruments Distinguished Fellowship. He has been a member of the Custome Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) Technical Program Committee (TPC) since 2024 and the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) since 2021. Also, he is a member of “MTT-26: RFID, Wireless Sensors and IoT” and an affiliate member of ” MTT-25: wireless power transfer and energy conversion” technical committees of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.

Graduate Students

	Wenpu Xia, Graduate Research Assistant Wenpu received his B.A degree (Physics) at Denison University and B.S. degree (EE) at Columbia University in a Combined plan program in May 2023, and an M.S. degree (EE) at Columbia University in May 2024. My research interests include CMOS-based millimeter-wave front-end components design, RF integrated circuits, and microwave circuit design.
	Yingrui Wei, Graduate Research Assistant Yingrui received his B.S. degree in Physics from Wuhan University and his M.S. degree from Columbia University. He has a background in semiconductor devices and analog mixed-signal IC design. He joined RAISE Lab in the fall of 2025 and is now working on ultra-low-power wireless data links.
	Chuhan Xue, Graduate Research Assistant Chuhan received his B.S. degree from South China University of Technology in 2023 and his M.S. degree from Columbia University in 2024. His research interests include Wireless Power Systems, Analog Front End, and RFIC design.
	Peijie Yang, Graduate Research Assistant Peijie received B.E degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Sichuan University (SCU), Chengdu, China, in 2023. He received his M.Sc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2025. He joined the NYU Raise Lab in 2025 fall as a PhD student, focusing his studies and research on RF and mmWave IC for communication and sensing.

Undergraduate Students

Desmond Wong

Desmond is a current bachelor’s student at Tandon School of Engineering. His research interest involves investigating the relationships between power, system design, and end-user experience in consumer applications. He is also a fan of chess, writing epic fiction, and video games.

Visiting Students

Gregorio Bacinelli

Gregorio Bacinelli is a Master’s student in Electronic Engineering for IoT at University of Perugia. He is a visiting student at NYU Tandon School of Engineering for the 2025 spring semester.
He studied primarily antenna design, RF systems, and RF integrated circuits and his research at NYU focuses on metasurfaces for Wireless Power Transfer applications.

Former Students and Visitors

Siqi Bai, M.Sc. Student, 2025

Project: D-band transmittarrays and beamformers

Heng Wang, M.Sc. Student, 2024

Project: Ultra-Low-Power Neural Recording Front-Ends

Yuheng He Visiting Research Intern, Summer 2024.

Project: Large Language Models (LLMs) for Analog and RF Circuits

Wenpu Xia Visiting Research Intern, Summer 2024.

Project: A 6-GHz beamforming Transmitter front-end IC with vector-sum phase shifter

You?

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