Principal Investigator
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.
Postdocs and Research Staff
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.
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.
Miguel Montalban
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.
PhD Students
Alexander Chou
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.
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.
Yuean Gu
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dhruv Vaish
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.
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.
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.
Shengya Zhang
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.
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.
You?
You are a prospective PhD student in the EECS department at UC Berkeley. To join the Muller Lab you must first be admitted to the PhD program in EECS.
You?
You are a prospective PhD student in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Bioengineering program. To join the Muller Lab you must first be admitted to the PhD program in Bioengineering.
Undergraduate Students
Vinay Agrawal
Vinay is a fourth-year undergraduate studying EECS and Engineering Physics at UC Berkeley. His interests include mixed-signal ICs, computer architecture, physics, and sports.
Savit Bhat
Savit is a fourth-year undergraduate studying EECS at UC Berkeley. His interests include analog and digital ICs, biomedical signal acquisition and processing, and music.
Mary Bokuchava
Mary is a fourth-year undergraduate double-majoring in EECS and Bioengineering at UC Berkeley. Her academic interests span biomedical circuits, artificial intelligence, and system architecture. Outside of her studies she enjoys hiking and traveling.
Kevin Gomes
Kevin is a fourth-year undergraduate in EECS interested in digital IC design, brain-computer interfaces, and deep learning. Outside of academia, he enjoys running, playing the guitar, and reading.
Pamela Herrera
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.
Chun-Yen Wu
Chun-Yen is a fourth-year undergraduate in EECS. His Interests include analog and digital IC design, computer architecture, and applying machine learning for parameter extraction. Outside of academics, I enjoy staying active through workouts and listening to Jay Chou.
You?
Our lab is always seeking outstanding undergraduates to participate in our research.
Lab Alumni
Doctoral
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
Ryan Kaveh, PhD
Benjamin Johnson, PhD
Maruthi Yogeesh, PhD
Visiting Scholars
Maarten Schelles, KU Leuven
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
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
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