Researcher

Hamidreza Afzal

Postdoctoral Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)
PostDoc 2025 to present

Hamidreza Afzal (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2015, and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, in 2017. He received his Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA in 2024. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include radio frequency (RF), millimeter-wave (mm-wave), and terahertz integrated...

Venkata Alapati

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)
M.S. 2025 (Anticipated)

Alexander Alvara

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Liwei Lin (Advisor)
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2025 (Anticipated)

Alexander Alvara is a final year Ph.D. Candidate in mechanical engineering who earned his 3 BS degrees from UC Irvine '17 concurrently in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and materials science and engineering. Alexander is interested in extreme conditions applications and performance of MEMS devices as well as nanoscale materials engineering that investigates the interplay of materials with electromagnetism and light.

Carla Bassil

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Ali Javey (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2028 (Anticipated)

Suhrith Bellamkonda

Undergraduate Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Ali Javey (Advisor)
B.S. 2029 (Anticipated)

Kyeongjae Byeon

Visiting Scholar Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Ali Javey (Advisor)
VSR 2024 to present

Yu-Chen Chang

Visiting Scholar Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)
VSR 2025 to present

Neil Chen

Postdoctoral Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Clark T.-C. Nguyen (Advisor)
PostDoc 2024 to present

Benjamin Cook

Visiting Scholar Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2007, Visiting Scholar 2025 to present.

Victor Couedel

Graduate Student Researcher
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Rayne Zheng (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2026 (Anticipated)

Mechanical Engineering Ph.D Student in Dr. Xiaoyu 'Rayne' Zheng's Additive Manufacturing and Metamaterials laboratory.
Interested in new additive manufacturing processes and printable materials.

Currently working on 3D printing of piezoelectric architected ceramics for underwater acoustic applications.

BSAC Fall 2024 Research Review Presenter