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), and an Investigator at the Weill Neurohub. 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 EEE 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 served as a Distinguished Lecturer of the Solid-State Circuits Society.

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Postdocs, Research Staff, Visiting Scholars

  • MunKyu

    MunKyu Kang

    POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR

    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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  • Miguel

    Miguel Montalban

    RESEARCH ENGINEER

    Miguel Montalban is a Research and Design Engineering staff member for the Muller Lab in the UC Berkeley Department of EECS. Miguel received his MEng degree at UC Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering. His interests include wearable sensor design, electrode fabrication, and device assembly.

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Graduate Students

  • Eda

    Demet Eda Akar

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Eda is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. She completed her undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering at Sabanci University. Her interests include design, simulation, and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and integration of 2D materials into MEMS.

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  • Savit

    Savit Bhat

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Savit is a PhD student studying EECS at UC Berkeley. He also completed his undergraduate degree in EECS at UC Berkeley. His interests include analog and digital ICs,  biomedical signal acquisition and processing, and music.

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  • Alex

    Alexander Chou

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Alex is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He received his undergraduate degree in EECS also from UC Berkeley. His interests include analog/mixed-signal ICs for medical devices, neural interfaces, and implantables.

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  • Yuean

    Yuean Gu

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Yuean is a PhD student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. She received her BEng 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

    Surin Gweon

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    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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  • Deniz

    Umut Deniz Kapici

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Umut Deniz is a PhD student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. He received his BS and MS degrees from METU. His research interests include mixed-signal IC design for wearable and implantable electronics. He enjoys playing the saxophone, improvisational music, and 3D printing.

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  • I-Ting

    I-Ting Lin

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    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

    Liz Murray

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    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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  • Jade

    Jade Pinkenburg

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    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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  • Dhruv

    Dhruv Vaish

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Dhruv is a PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. He completed his undergraduate degrees in EECS + BioE at UC Berkeley. His interests include analog and digital ICs, embedded software, medical devices, walking + hiking, teaching, and developing the web.

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  • Alec

    Alec Vercruysse

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    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

    Chun-Yen Wu

    MASTERS STUDENT

    Chun-Yen is a Masters student in EECS. His Interests include analog and digital IC design, computer architecture, and applying machine learning for parameter extraction. Outside of academics, he enjoys staying active through workouts and listening to Jay Chou.

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  • Chun-Yen

    Chun-Yen Yao

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    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 public transit adventure.

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  • Grace

    Grace (Shengya) Zhang

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Shengya (Grace) Zhang is a PhD Student in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. She received her BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience from the University of Southern California. Her research interests include wearable and implantable bioelectronics, neural interface, and analog IC. She likes hiking, driving, roadtripping, cars, and cats. 

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Undergraduate Students

  • Pamela

    Pamela Herrera

    UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT

    Pamela is a fourth-year undergraduate studying Bioengineering with a concentration in biomedical devices at UC Berkeley. Her interests include circuit design for medical devices, neuroimaging, sensor development, and traveling.

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  • Justine

    Justine Choueiri

    Justine is a fourth-year undergraduate studying EECS and Bioengineering at UC Berkeley. Her interests include biomedical devices, especially circuit design and signal processing for neurotechnology, as well as implantable and wearable systems. Outside the lab, she enjoys cooking, board games, and exploring the outdoors.

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  • Sean Isomatsu

    Sean Isomatsu

    Sean is a fourth-year undergraduate studying BioE at UC Berkeley. His research interests include MEMS, mixed-signal circuit design, and neurotechnology. Outside the lab, he enjoys cooking, playing music, and going on walks around campus.

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Lab Alumni

Doctoral

Rebekah Zhao, PhD, EECS UCB, 2025

Aviral Pandey, PhD, EECS UCB, 2025

Justin Doong, PhD, EECS UCB, 2024

Adelson Chua, PhD, EECS UCB, 2023

Nathan Tessema Ersaro, PhD, BioE 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

ChangUk Lee, PhD, 2025

Ryan Kaveh, PhD, 2024

Maruthi Yogeesh, PhD, 2018

Benjamin Johnson, PhD, 2017

Visiting Scholars

Pierangelo Maria Rapa, PhD Student, University of Bologna, 2025

Maarten Schelles, PhD Student, KU Leuven, 2023

Masters Students

Serene Azafrani, MEng, ME UCB, 2024

Hugo Hakem, MEng, BioE UCB, 2024

Leslie Pu, MEng, EECS UCB, 2024

Ashwin Rammohan, MS, EECS UCB, 2024

Jenny Vo, MEng, BioE UCB, 2024

Gabrielle Evans, MEng, BioE UCB, 2023

Madeleine Gorham, MEng, BioE UCB, 2023

Miguel Montalban, MEng, ME UCB, 2023

Khashayar Pirouzmand, MS, EECS UCB, 2023

Boxuan Song, MEng, ME UCB, 2023

Kieran Weiszmann, MEng, ME UCB, 2023

Andy Yau, MEng, BioE UCB, 2023

Braeden Benedict, MS, BioE UCB, 2021

Carolyn Schwendeman, MS, EECS 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

Savit Bhat, EECS, UCB, 2025

Mary Bokuchava, EECS & BioE, UCB, 2025

Kevin Gomes, EECS, UCB, 2025

Sasvath Ramachandran, EECS & Bus, UCB, 2025

Chun-Yen Wu, EECS, 2025

Vinay Agarwal, EECS, UCB, 2024

Alexander Chou, EECS, UCB, 2024

Neekon Saadat, EECS, UCB, 2024

Dhruv Vaish, EECS, UCB, 2024

Arya Bastani, EECS, UCB, 2023

Leslie Pu, EECS UCB, 2023

Ashwin Rammohan, 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

Carolyn Schwendeman, BS, EECS UCB, 2020

Yasmin Graham, BS, ME U Maryland, 2019

Sunny Singh, BS, BioE UCB, 2019