People
Faculty:
Ulkuhan Guler (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Director of the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Laboratory at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Her research interests lie in the broad area of circuits and systems, with a primary focus on analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits, including the circuit design of sensing interfaces, bioelectronics, energy harvesting and wireless power transmission systems, and security for applications in healthcare. more
Post-doctoral Researcher:
Mohammad Abdolrazzaghi received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2014, the M.Sc. degree in Electromagnetics and Microwaves from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, in 2017, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronics from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, in 2026. He worked as Electromagnetics Lead at Phase Advanced Sensors Corp., where he directed sensor research and development for Baker Hughes. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher shared between the ICAS Lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and the Energy-Efficient Circuits and Systems Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he works on implantable antennas and analog front-ends for graphene-based biosensor readout. His research interests include CMOS analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit (IC) design, wireless power transfer, biosensors, antennas, and machine learning.
Ph.D. Students:
Amin Hazrati Marangalou received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Urmia University, Urmia, Iran, in 2016 and his M.Sc. degree in Integrated circuit (IC) design from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, in 2019. During his Master’s program, he focused on the design of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC) and the development of tunable RF filters for RF receivers. From 2019 to 2021, he worked as a junior scientist, conducting research in RFIC design at the research unit “Frontend Integrated Circuits and Systems” at Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) in Villach, Austria. more
Vladimir Vakhter received his Specialist (BS/MS) degree in Electronics & Automation of Physical Machines from Ural Federal University (UrFU), Russia, in 2016, and his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) as a Fulbright grantee in 2021. He is now a Ph.D. candidate at WPI, where his research focuses on custom mixed-signal integrated circuits and wearable systems for continuous, noninvasive, unheated monitoring of transcutaneous blood oxygen. more
Işıl Işıksalan earned her B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in February 2023. She completed an internship as a digital circuit design engineer at ATEK MIDAS during the spring break of 2020. In the Fall semester of 2021, she gained experience in semiconductor technologies while working as an external employee at TU-WIEN Institute of Solid State Electronics, during her Erasmus Mobility. During her senior year, Işıksalan began a long-term internship at TUBITAK BILGEM YITAL (Semiconductor Research Laboratory) with a focus on Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD). more
Gokalp Cevik received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2024. During his senior year, he worked on hardware-accelerated (FPGA-based) machine learning algorithms for computational fluid dynamics. He also completed his summer internship at the Integrated Circuits Research Group at Istanbul Bilgi University in 2023. He joined the Ph.D. program in ECE at WPI in the fall of 2024. His current research at the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab is focused on mixed-signal hardware design (PCB & IC), and embedded software development for transcutaneous gas sensing. He also worked on the design of a wearable coherent spatial imaging device for postpartum hemorrhage in collaboration with Hemorai, Inc. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. degree with ICAS Lab at WPI.
KyungRyeol Ko received his B.S. degree in Mechatronics and Electronic Engineering from Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, in 2024. During his senior year, he worked on embedded IoT sensing platforms for real-time environmental monitoring, gaining experience in sensor signal processing and system integration. He then gained industry experience at Coupang, contributing to large-scale data quality assurance and workflow automation to support reliable commercial operations. He joined the Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in the spring of 2026 and is currently with the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab. His research interests include wearable biosensing and low-power mixed-signal IC design for continuous physiological monitoring.
Irfan Tekin received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2025. During his undergraduate studies, he took part in analog and digital circuit design projects. He completed his summer internship at RFTR Electronics in 2023, where he designed a microstrip bandpass filter that was later fabricated. In 2024, he designed a CMOS capacitive sensor readout IC, which is currently in fabrication. He joined the Ph.D. program in ECE at WPI in the fall of 2026. His research at the ICAS Lab is focused on multimodal sensing and closed-loop temperature control for transcutaneous blood gas monitoring.
Master Students:
Sofia Xie is an undergraduate student receiving her B.S./M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and is expected to graduate in 2026. Motivated by a passion for engineering, she shares her expertise through her work as an Engineering Ambassador and ECE Teaching Assistant. With internship experience in RF circuit testing and system engineering she is focused on developing efficient technology for biomedical innovation.
Evan Haas is a graduate student pursuing his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from WPI in 2026. Evan works full-time as an Analog IC Designer at Draper Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has a deep interest in semiconductor physics, analog/mixed signal IC design, biological systems, machine learning, and artificial intelligence as a whole. His M.S. thesis in the ICAS Lab revolves around mixed-signal transcutaneous oxygen measurement design.
William Davenport received the Sc.B. degree in Applied Mathematics-Economics from Brown University in 2019. From 2019 to 2025, he worked in quantitative finance, first at Goldman Sachs and later at Two Sigma Investments, where he conducted statistical research and developed large-scale data pipelines. He joined the M.S. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in the fall of 2026 and is a member of the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab. His research interests include analog and mixed-signal IC design, sensing interfaces, and bioelectronics.
Undergraduate Students:
Pan Rasking is an undergraduate student receiving their B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from WPI in 2027. Through several internships at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD and an internship with DEKA Research Corp., Manchester, NH, they have gained a strong software engineering and project management skillset. In their undergraduate studies, they are focusing on analog electronics and are particularly passionate about contributing to the development of biomedical devices. Their senior capstone work focuses on a closed-loop heating system for transcutaneous blood gas sensing.
Domenico Bruno is pursuing his B.S./M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI. He expects to receive his B.S. in May 2027 and his M.S. in December 2027. In the summer of 2026, he interned at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he designed and characterized RF radar test hardware. He joined the ICAS Lab in the fall of 2026, and his research focuses on closed-loop temperature regulation for transcutaneous blood gas sensing. He is drawn to analog design for its problem-solving, where every decision balances competing tradeoffs such as power, noise, gain, and stability.
George Shi is an Electrical and Computer Engineering major at WPI graduating with his B.S. this spring 2027. He joined the lab in the fall of 2025 researching short pulsed laser drivers and temperature regulation for transcutaneous sensing. He has had internships at Infineon Technologies, Teradyne, and Fresenius Medical Care learning many disciplines from IC verification to hardware PCB design. He is interested in many areas of chip design which includes analog, mixed-signal, and RF.