Oregon State High-Speed Integrated Circuits Lab


Principal Investigator: Dr. Arun Natarajan

Dr Natarajan's research focuses on integrated circuits and systems for high-datarate wireless communication and imaging.


  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
    Thesis: Millimeter-Wave Phased Arrays in Silicon
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
  • B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai


Dr. Natarajan is a Professor in the School of EECS at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR where he directs the High Speed Integrated Circuits Lab. His research is focused on analog, RF and mm-wave integrated circuits and systems for wireless communication and imaging. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Caltech where he developed the first integrated phased-array transmitter and transceivers at mm-wave frequencies. From 2007 to 2012, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY and worked on 60GHz and 94GHz phased arrays for multi-Gb/s data links and airborne radar and on self-healing circuits for increased process yield. Since joining Oregon State University, his research group has focused on low-power integrated circuits for sensors and on architectures for interferer-tolerant RF/mm-wave MIMO arrays. Dr. Natarajan served as an IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2018-2019, received the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2017, the NSF CAREER Award in 2016, the Oregon State University Engelbrecht Young Faculty Award in 2016, the Pat Goldberg Memorial Award at IBM Research in 2011, the IBM Research Fellowship in 2005, and the National Talent Search Scholarship from the Government of India [1995-2000]. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques and IEEE Trans. of VLSI Circuits. Since 2019, he has been part of the leadership team of Mixcomm Inc., a venture-capital funded semiconductor startup focused on integrated transceivers for 5G and Satcom. Mixcomm Inc. was acquired by Sivers Semiconductors in Feb. 2022







Doctoral Students:

  • Hayden Bialek
  • B.S. (Honors), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
  • Email Hayden Bialek





  • Mostafa Essawy
  • B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
  • M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
  • Email Mostafa Essawy





  • Amin Aghighi
  • M.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Faculty of Engineering, Mashhad, Iran.
  • Email Amin Aghighi





  • Paul Dania
  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with Minor in Mathematics, University of Idaho (UI), Moscow, ID
  • Email Paul Dania





  • Soumya Gupta
  • B. Tech., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.
  • Email Soumya Gupta





  • Kareem Rashed
  • B. S., Cairo Univeristy, Egypt.
  • M. S., Cairo Univeristy, Egypt.
  • Email Kareem Rashed





M.S. Students:

  • Kuei-Jih Lu
  • Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA
  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA
  • Email Kuei-Jih Lu





Group Alumni:

  • Jiao Cheng (co-advised by Professor Chiang)
  • Bachelor's Degree, Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • Ph.D., Oregon State University, 2014 Thesis: Analysis and Design on Low-Power Short-Range Radios for Wireless Body Area Networks
  • Currently at Maxim in Oregon






  • Abhishek Agrawal
  • B. Tech., Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
  • Lead Design Engineering (NFC Radios), Texas Instruments (India)
  • Ph.D., Oregon State University, 2017 Thesis: Scalable Array Transceivers with Wide Frequency Tuning Range for Next Generation Radios
  • Currently at Intel Research Labs in Oregon
  • Abhishek's Personal Website: link





  • Jian Kang
  • Bachelor of Science, Information and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
  • Master of Science, IC Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
  • Ph.D., Oregon State University, 2018
    • Thesis: Wirelessly Powered cm-Scale Sensor for Small Insect Localization Applications
  • Currently at Qualcomm, San Diego





  • Yao Liu
  • Bachelor's Degree, EM Field and Radio Tech., Univ. of Electronic Science and Tech. of China, Chengdu, China
  • Ph.D., Oregon State University, March 2019, Thesis: Millimeter-Wave Transmitter and Receiver with Efficient IC-Antenna Interface for Sensors, Phased-arrays and Polarization-Duplexing
  • Currently at Anokiwave, Boston






  • Kai Zhan
  • Bachelor of Science, Optical Information Science and Technology, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
  • Master of Science, Physics, Oregon State University, Corvallis
  • Ph.D., Oregon State University, March 2019, Thesis: Low Power mm-Wave Transceiver for Short-Range MIMO Wireless and Guided Metal Wires Links
  • Currently at Qualcomm





  • Sanket Jain
  • B.E. (Hons) Electronics & Instrumentation, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.
  • Master of Science, Microelectronics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Ph.D., Oregon State University, Aug. 2019, Thesis: Integrated receiver architectures tolerant to co-channel and in-band self-interfering blocker signals for MIMO and digital beamforming applications
  • Currently at Apple




  • Kamala Raghavan
  • B. Tech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
  • M. Tech, Microelectronics and VLSI, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.
  • Ph.D., Oregon State University, Sep. 2020, Thesis: A Wireless Energy Harvester for Powering Event-driven Internet-of-things Applications and Battery Charging
  • Currently at Qualcomm




  • Manoj Johnson
  • B. Tech., Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India.
  • M. Tech., Microelectronics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
  • Ph.D., Oregon State University, Dec. 2020, Thesis: RF and Millimeter-wave Techniques to Improve Scalability and Efficiency of Digital Beamforming Arrays
  • Currently at Sivers Semiconductors




  • Robin Garg
  • B. Tech. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
  • M.S., Oregon State University, 2016, Thesis: Design of 28 GHz Low-Power Phased-Array Receiver Frontend in CMOS
  • Ph.D., Oregon State University, June 2021









  • Dan Taylor
  • M.S., Oregon State University, 2018


  • Anoop Sheokand
  • Lingaya's Institute of Management & Technology
  • RF/Analog Design Engineer, Texas Instruments
  • M.S., Oregon State University, 2018




  • Anindita Borah
  • B. E. (Hons.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India
  • Analog Design Engineer, Texas Instruments
  • Email Anindita Borah




  • Yunqi Wang
  • Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • Master’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  • M.S., Oregon State University, 2015
    • Thesis: High-Resolution mm-wave Digitally Controlled Oscillator in CMOS
  • Currently at Spreadtrum Communications
  • Email Yunqi Wang