Principal Investigator

Rikky Muller, PhD

Rikky Muller, PhD

Rikky Muller, PhD is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley where she holds the S. Shankar Sastry Professorship in Emerging Technologies. She is a Co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), a Core Member of the Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses (CNEP) and an Investigator at the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub (CZB). Prof. Muller received her BS and MS degrees from MIT and her PhD from UC Berkeley all in EECS, and was a McKenzie Fellow and Lecturer of EE at the University of Melbourne in Australia. She was the Co-founder of Cortera Neurotechnologies, Inc. a medical device company that was acquired in 2019, where she held positions as CEO and CTO. Prior to her PhD she was an IC designer at Analog Devices.

Prof. Muller was named one of MIT Technology Review's top 35 global innovators under the age of 35 (TR35), and one of MedTech Boston's top 40 healthcare innovators Under 40. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the IEEE SSCS New Frontier Award, the McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award, National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lectureship, the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigatorship, the Keysight Early Career Professorship, the Hellman Fellowship, the Bakar Fellowship, the Bakar Prize, the NSF CAREER Award, and is a Distinguished Lecturer of the Solid-State Circuits Society.

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Postdocs

MunKyu Kang

Dr. MunKyu Kang is a postdoctoral scholar in the UC Berkeley EECS department. He received his BS and PhD degrees from Korea University, South Korea. His interests are holographic imaging, wavefront shaping, optical devices, and music instruments. MunKyu is co-advised by Prof. Laura Waller.

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Ryan Kaveh

Dr. Ryan Kaveh is a postdoctoral scholar in the UC Berkeley EECS department. He received his BS from UC Santa Barbara and his PhD from UC Berkeley. His interests involve building biopotential recording electrodes, designing neural recording wearables, surfing, running, and making amateur Star Wars fan films.

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ChangUk Lee

Dr. ChangUk Lee is a postdoctoral scholar in the UC Berkeley EECS department. He received his BS and PhD degrees from Yonsei University, South Korea. His interests are mixed-signal circuit design for wearable and implantable devices, soccer, and tennis.

PhD Students

Justin Doong

Justin is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS degree from Stanford University. His interests include dry electrode e-phys recording, biomedical circuits, playing violin and basketball.

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Yuean Gu

Yuean is a PhD student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. She received her BS degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is interested in biomedical circuits and systems design, baking and fishkeeping.

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Surin Gweon

Surin is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. She received her BS from Korea University and MS degree from KAIST. She is interested in biomedical circuits and freediving. Surin is co-advised by Prof. Mekhail Anwar.

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I-Ting Lin

I-Ting is a PhD Student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS degree and MS degree in EE from National Taiwan University. His research interests include digital circuits and computer architectures for machine learning, signal processing, and numerical optimization.

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Liz Murray

Liz is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. She received her BS and MEng degrees from MIT. Her research interests lie in biomedical circuits and signal processing.

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Aviral Pandey

Aviral is PhD Student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, where he also received his BS in 2019. His interests are circuit design for wearable and implantable devices, mixed signal design automation, and hiking.

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Jade Pinkenburg

Jade is a PhD student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS degree in EE from Cornell University. His interests include circuit design for implantable devices, sensor development, hiking, and musical instruments.

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Alec Vercruysse

Alec is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College. His research interests include mixed-signal IC design and system integration, and he also enjoys hiking and water sports. Alec is co-advised by Prof. Mekhail Anwar.

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Chun-Yen Yao

Chun-Yen is a PhD Student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS degree in EE with a minor in ME and his MS degree in EE from National Taiwan University. His current interests include low-noise current sensing frontends for biomedical circuits, Japanese anime, cooking, and BayPassing.

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Rebekah Zhao

Rebekah is a PhD student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. She received her BS degree in ECE and BME at Carnegie Mellon University in 2018. Her interests are biomedical circuit design, magnetic resonance imaging, running and singing. Rebekah is co-advised by Prof. Miki Lustig.

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Masters Students

Ashwin Rammohan

Ashwin is a 5th year MS student studying EECS at UC Berkeley, where he received his BS in 2023. His interests include mixed-signal IC design, wearable devices, Formula 1 racing, and golf.

Leslie Pu

Leslie is pursuing an MEng degree in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, where she received her BS in 2023. Her interests include wearable medical devices, marine science, and food.

Serene Azafrani

Serene is an MEng student studying Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley with a specialized focus on Product Design. She received her BSE in BME from Tulane University in 2022. Her areas of interest include human-centered design, surgical devices, painting, and hiking.

Hugo Hakem

Hugo is a graduate student in Meng program in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley after having graduated from CentraleSupélec, a French elite engineering school. His interests include neuroscience, computational genomics, programming besides being funds of all kind of sports with a deep passion for rowing and trail.

Jenny Vo

Jenny Vo is pursuing an M.Eng. degree in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley. Her interests includes biosensor for disease detection, and explore restaurants with friends.

Undergraduate Students

Dhruv Vaish

Dhruv is a fourth-year undergraduate in EECS + BioE. His interests include analog and digital ICs, embedded software, medical devices, walking + hiking, teaching, and developing the web.

Alexander Chou

Alex is a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in EECS. His interests include analog/mixed-signal ICs for medical devices, neural interfaces, and implantables.

Savit Bhat

Savit is a third-year undergraduate studying EECS. His interests include analog and digital ICs,  biomedical signal acquisition and processing, and music.

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Lab Alumni

Doctoral

Adelson Chua, PhD, EECS UCB, 2023

Nathan Tessema Ersaro, PhD, Bioengineering UCB, 2023

Cem Yaclin, PhD, EECS UCB, 2023

Sina Faraji Alamouti, PhD, EECS UCB, 2022

Mohammad Meraj Ghanbari, PhD, EECS UCB, 2022

Ryan Kaveh, PhD, EECS UCB, 2022

Andy Zhou, PhD, EECS UCB, 2021

Postdoctoral

Benjamin Johnson, PhD

Maruthi Yogeesh, PhD

Visiting Scholars

Maarten Schelles, KU Leuven

Masters Students

Miguel Montalban, MEng, ME UCB, 2023

Gabrielle Evans, MEng, Bioengineering UCB, 2023

Madeleine Gorham, MEng, Bioengineering UCB, 2023

Boxuan Song, MEng, ME UCB, 2023

Kieran Weiszmann, MEng, ME UCB, 2023

Andy Yau, MEng, Bioengineering UCB, 2023

Khashayar Pirouzmand, MS, EECS UCB, 2023

Carolyn Schwendeman, MS, EECS UCB, 2021

Braeden Benedict, MS, BioE UCB, 2021

Zhaoxin Gu, MEng, EECS UCB, 2019

Andy Wang, MEng, EECS UCB, 2019

Chen Fu, MEng, EECS UCB, 2018

Zhi Yuan Sherwin Lau, MEng, EECS UCB, 2018

Mary Lee Lawrence, MEng, EECS UCB, 2018

Ka Yiu Li, MS, EECS UCB, 2018

Paul Meyer-Rachner, MEng, EECS UCB, 2018

Jingbo Wu, MEng, EECS UCB, 2018

Winston Ng, MEng, EEE U Melbourne, 2014

Undergraduates

Neekon Saadat, EECS, UCB, 2024

Arya Bastani, EECS, UCB, 2023

Sarina Sabouri, EECS, UCB, 2023

Inga Zhuravleva, EECS, UCB, 2023

Connor Kennedy, EECS, UCB, 2022

Rahul Kumar, EECS, UCB, 2022

Niki Shakouri, BioE UCB, 2022

Yonatan Nozik, BS, EECS UCB, 2020

Yasmin Graham, BS, ME U Maryland, 2019

Sunny Singh, BS, BioE UCB, 2019