Hamed Rahmani

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

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

Dr. Rahmani is the recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award (2025) and numerous other honors, including the IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship for medical applications and the Texas Instruments Distinguished Fellowship. His contributions have also been recognized with the 2023 Best Paper Award in the Journal of Microwave. He has served on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) 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.