Since 2000, more than 30 PhD and 29 MASc students graduated from the Centre for Integrated RF Engineering (CIRFE) are currently working in well known industries or in academia.
Nino Zahirovic, Phd: Director of Engineering: System Design, IGNIS Innovation
Sara Attar, PhD
Arash Fomani, PhD
Fengxi Huang, PhD
Siamak Fouladi, PhD
Sormeh Setoodeh, MSc
Maher Bakri-Kassem, PhD: Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah
Saman Nazari, PhD: Senior Software Developer at GHD
Ahmed Bayoumy, PhD
PhD, PEng: Program Chair, Electronic Systems Engineering; Director, Co-operative Education and Work Study Programs; Associate Professor, Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Regina
Mojgan Daneshmand, PhD: Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta
Reena Dahle, PhD: Assistant Professor SUNY New Paltz
Academic Positions
Mojgan Daneshmand, PhD
Currently: Associate Professor and Tier II Canada Research Chair, University of Alberta, AB, Canada
Paul LaForge, PhD
Currently: Associate Professor, University of Regina, SK, Canada
John Saad, PhD
Currently: Instructor/Lecturer, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
Soren Piek, PhD
Currently: Associate Professor, Technical University of Bremen, Germany
Reena Al-Dahle, PhD
Currently: Assistant Professor, State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz, NY, USA
Maher Bakri-Kassem, PhD
Currently: Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Mohamed Mahmoud, PhD
Currently: Assistant Professor, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Mostafa Soliman, PhD
Currently: Assistant Professor, German University, Cairo, Egypt
Positions in US or International Industry
Gorden Coutts, PhD
Currently: Google, California, USA (Previously with Apple Inc., California, USA)
Dong (Winter) Yan, PhD
Currently: Co-Founder, W9 Technologies and Vice-President, AdHawk Microsystems, ON, Canada (Previously: New Product Integration Engineer, Avago Technologies, California, USA)
Siamak Fouladi, PhD
Currently: R&D Engineer, Avago Technologies, California, USA
Vahid Miraftab, PhD
Currently: Principal Design Engineer, Broadcom Limited, California, USA (Previously: Senior mmWave Engineer, Huawei)
Salam Gabran, PhD
Currently: Director of Engineering, Novella Neurotech, California, USA (Previously: Senior Engineer, InvenSense Inc., California, USA)
Mehrnaz Motiee, PhD
Currently: Staff MEMS Engineer and Project Lead, Analog Devices, Boston, USA
Arash Fomani, PhD
Currently: Staff Research Scientist, Synaptics Inc., California, USA (Previously: Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Hamid Salehi, PhD
Currently: Co-founder and CEO, PerchBaby, California, USA (Previously: Sr. Staff Analyst, Broadcom Limited, California, USA)
Jianwei Liu, PhD
Currently: Senior Lead Engineer/Project Manager, PJM Interconnection, Pennsylvania, USA (Previously: Lead EMS Specialist, ISO New England, USA)
Rui Zhang, PhD
Currently: AsiaSat, HongKong
Desireh Shoejaei-Asanjan, PhD
Currently: RF Design Engineer, Apple Inc., California, USA
Tejinder Singh, PhD
Currently: Postdoctoral Scholar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), California, USA and Research Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
Positions in Canadian Industry
Brian Keats, PhD
Currently: Principal Engineer, COM DEV (Now Honeywell Aerospace), ON, Canada
Sara Attar, PhD
Currently: EMC Test Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace, ON, Canada
Ahmed Bayoumy, PhD
Currently: RF Design Engineer, Nanowave Technologies, ON, Canada
Fengxi Huang, PhD
Currently: RF Design Engineer, Nanowave Technologies, ON, Canada
Nino Zahirovic, PhD
Currently: CTO and Co-Founder, AdHawk Microsystems, ON, Canada and Director of Engineering: System Design, IGNIS Innovation Inc., ON, Canada
Daryoosh Saeedkia, PhD
Currently: Founder and CEO, TeTechS Inc., ON, Canada (Previously: Chief Technology Officer, Verisante Technology Inc., ON, Canada and Visiting Faculty, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), California, USA
Recipient of the 2008 CMC Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence
Neil Sarkar, PhD
Currently: Co-Founder and CEO, AdHawk Microsystems, ON, Canada and Co-Founder, ICSPI Corp., ON, Canada. (Previously: Senior Engineer, Zyvex Labs, TX, USA)
Recipient of the 2008 CMC Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence
Wei Ting Chen (Scott), PhD
Currently: Sober Steering Inc., ON, Canada
Saman Nazari, PhD
Currently: Senior Software Engineer, GHD, ON, Canada
Mostafa Azizi, PhD
Currently: RF Design Engineer, Skyworks Solutions Inc., ON, Canada
Ka Wai Wong (Oliver), PhD
Currently: Senior Engineer, Huawei Technologies, ON, Canada
Ahmed Abdel Aziz, PhD
Currently: Principal Microfabrication Engineer at GlobalFoundries, VA, USA
Junwen Jiang, PhD
Currently: Senior RF Engineer, Redline Communications, ON, Canada