Principal Investigator

Harish Krishnaswamy received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He joined the EE department of Columbia University as an Assistant Professor in January 2009.

He received the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper in 2007. He also received the Best Thesis in Experimental Research Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in 2009, and the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2011.

PhD Students

Jahnavi Sharma graduated with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in May 2009. In the summer of 2007, she did a three-month internship at the Microelectronics Center of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur with the late Dr. Shantiram Kal. She joined the group as a PhD student in August 2009.

Anandaroop Chakrabarti graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2010 with a Bachelor's degree in Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering. He spent the summer of 2009 at the University of Utah on a three-month internship under Dr. Richard Brown, Dean of Engineering. He joined Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy's research group in August 2010 as a PhD track student.

Jian (Johnny) Chen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, in 2008 and 2010 respectively. From 2007 to 2008, he served as the secretary of the University of Rochester IEEE student branch. In August 2010, he joined Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy's research group as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.

Ritesh A. Bhat graduated from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka in 2010 with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He interned at Texas Instruments, Bangalore under Dr. K Radhakrishna Rao for a period of two and half months in summer 2009. In Spring 2011, he joined Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy's research group as a PhD-track student.

Tsung-Hao (Jeffrey) Chuang graduated from National Taiwan University in 2010 with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He received the NTU EE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award and the Lam Research Award in 2010. In August 2011, he joined Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy's research group as a PhD-track student.

Mohammad Asgari graduated from Sharif University of Technology in 2010 with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He earned a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University in 2011. In Spring 2012, he joined Dr. Harish Krishnaswamy's research group as a PhD-track student.

MS Students

Linxiao Zhang (Fall 2011 - present): Broadband modeling of silicon-based passive components.

Former Visiting Students

Mohammad Asgari (Summer 2011 - present): Linear-yet-efficient RF power amplifiers.

Former MS Students

Jian Chen (Spring 2010 - Fall 2010): Construction of an anechoic chamber. Characterization of UWB antennas, antenna arrays and beamforming networks.
William Lee (Summer 2010 - Fall 2010): Investigation of flicker-noise mechanisms in LC oscillators. Waveform/code design for Multi-beam ST-RAKE RADARs.
Ritesh Bhat (Fall 2010): Design of a discrete, UWB, Multi-beam ST-RAKE RADAR testbed.
Luyao Shi (Fall 2011): Development of custom measurement automation software.