New MTL Core Faculty: Negar Reiskarimian

Professor Negar Reiskarimian will join the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor on July 1.
February 6, 2019

Professor Negar Reiskarimian will join the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as an assistant professor on July 1. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and is currently a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at Columbia University.

She has published in top-tier IEEE IC-related journals and conferences, as well as broader-interest high-impact journals in the Nature family. Her research has been widely covered in the press and featured in IEEE Spectrum, Gizmodo, and EE Times, among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including Forbes' “30 under 30,” a Paul Baran Young Scholar award, a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, and multiple IEEE awards and fellowships. She was a participant in the Rising Stars in EECS academic-careers workshop for women at Stanford University in 2017 and a speaker at the 2018 workshop at MIT.