Team

Hossein Naghavi

naghavi@uw.edu

Hossein Naghavi is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington and PI of the Terahertz Integrated MicroElectronics Lab (TIME Lab). He received his Ph.D. in 2023 from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, focusing on terahertz integrated circuits. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology and the University of Tehran, Iran, respectively. From 2016 to 2018, he was with the Radiation Lab at the University of Michigan as a research scholar, where he contributed to the development of the first fully integrated terahertz inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging system. Also, from 2012 to 2016, he worked at the Antenna Type Approval Laboratory at the University of Tehran, where he implemented several antenna and radio frequency measurement setups based on IEEE, FCC, and ETSI standards. His research focuses on the mm-wave and terahertz integrated circuit design, especially for imaging, spectroscopy, metrology, and communication applications.

Xiangyu Zhao

xyzhao1@uw.edu

Xiangyu Zhao received his M.Sc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Michigan in 2024. He received B.Eng. in Electronic Information Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2022. He joined the TIME Lab in 2024, focusing his studies and research on mm-wave and terahertz integrated circuits.

Zi Zhang

zzhang02@uw.edu

Zi Zhang received her B.E. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2023. From 2023 to 2024, she was a research assistant at the IPG Lab at UESTC, where she worked on chips for molecular clocks. Her research interests include RF/mm-Wave communication and sensing circuits.

Shruti Chakraborty

shrutic2@uw.edu

Shruti Chakraborty received her B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Merced, where she modeled drone collision patterns for safe flight operations and applied fractional order calculus to complex mechanical systems. From 2021 to 2023, she worked as a Thermal-Mechanical Engineer at Intel and Solidigm on Client SSD technology. She joined the TIME Lab in 2024, where her research focuses on plasma-wave microelectronics for terahertz integrated circuit design.

Zhuoran Wu

zw200104@uw.edu

Zhuoran Wu received his B.E. degree in Automation from South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China, in 2023, and his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. He worked with the TIME Lab during his master’s studies and joins as a Ph.D. student in Fall 2026. His research focuses on sub-THz dielectric resonator antenna design.

Denil Sabu

denils@uw.edu

Denil Sabu is an aspiring analog design engineer pursuing his masters of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. He received his B.Sc. in 2024 from the University of Washington focusing on integrated circuits. His current research at the TIME Lab focuses on delayed injection-locked oscillators.

Robert Walker

rwa1050@uw.edu

Robert Walker received B.Sc. degree in Physics and Computer Engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2024. He is now pursuing an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. As a member of the TIME Lab he works on sub-THz radar imaging systems with an emphasis on reflector antenna design.

Ahmad Inayatulla

ahmadi4@uw.edu

Ahmad Inayatulla is a M.Sc. student in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. He received his B.Sc. in 2024 from the University of Washington, with his field of interest tailored to integrated circuit practices. He joined the TIME Lab in 2025, with his current research focusing on Phase Shifter technology.

Chloe Boland

cb816@uw.edu

Chloe Boland is an Engineering Instructor at Whatcom Community College, with prior experience in the commercial space sector as a design and manufacturing engineer at SpaceX. She holds a B.Sc. in Plastics and Polymer Engineering Technology and an M.B.A., and plans to pursue a Ph.D. bridging engineering, education, and workforce development. As a participant in the UPWARDS RET Program, her work at the TIME Lab translates research in integrated circuit design and fabrication into practical educational materials for the future STEM workforce.

Fargol Fallahi

Fargol Fallahi earned her B.Sc. in Computer Science (Software Engineering) and her M.Sc. in Information Technology Engineering (Computer Networks). She has over six years of professional and industrial experience in computer networks and telecommunications. She is currently a Technical Support Engineer with the Seattle Community Network, where she works on communication network infrastructure. Her research interests include applying machine learning techniques to networking and security, radar signal processing, and emerging wireless applications. At the TIME Lab, her current work focuses on applying nonlinear signal processing and machine learning techniques to rapidly detect hidden objects and defects using a single-shot terahertz processor.

Katharine Lundblad

klundb@uw.edu

Katharine Lundblad is passionate about contributing to the new frontier of radar systems, as she hopes to enter a Ph.D. program in the upcoming cycle, specializing in integrated circuits. She received her B.Sc. in 2024 and M.Sc. in 2025 from the University of Washington, focusing on RF hardware and Computer Architecture. Her research at TIME Lab focuses on sub-THz power amplifiers for communication and radar systems.

Yannan Liu

liuy78@uw.edu

Yannan Liu is a Ph.D. graduate of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. Since 2018, he has worked under Professor Yasuo Kuga’s instruction. In 2023, he joined the TIME Lab and worked under the co-instruction of Professor Hossein Naghavi and Professor Yasuo Kuga. His research focuses on antenna design, especially for harsh environments and material characterization.

Chuyang Peng

Chuyang Peng received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Washington in 2024. He received his B.Eng. in Electronic Information Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China. He joined the TIME Lab in 2023, focusing his studies and research on terahertz circuit design. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA.

Arjun Manu

Celina Liao

Adarsh Thallikar

Neha Krishnakumar

Nathan Luong

Noah Yoon

Amanda Zhang

Emily Nong