Najme Ebrahimi

Najme Ebrahimi is an assistant professor at the University of Florida. She was a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor from 2017 to 2020. She is mainly conducting research on both mm-Wave/THz high data rate communication and sensing in addition to the security and connectivity of the next generation of distributed Internet-of-Things (IoT) network. She earned her PhD from the University of California, San Diego in June 2017, with an emphasize on enabling high data rate and scalable mm-wave phased array for the next generation of smart wireless world. She received her master of science degree, with highest honors, from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnique) in 2011, with thesis emphasize on low-power low-resolution electronic interface for capacitive sensor interface. She received her BS degree from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, in 2009, with the highest honor.

She is recipient of 2021 DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA). She is also a member of IEEE Solid-State Circuits and IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques societies. She is the recipient of PhD Endowed Graduate Fellowship from UC-SanDiego (2012-2013) and U-M Departmental Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-2020). She was serving as the vice-chair of IEEE Southeastern Michigan for Microwave Theory and Techniques Chapter where she was awarded MTT-s Travel Grant (2019). She was selected as 2019 EECS Rising Star by MIT launched Risingstars program and 2020 ISSCC Rising Star by IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society.