Recent News

• Invited Talk at Electromagnetics Workshop Simulation, Measurement, and Limits of Non-LTI EM Systems held at Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)– Nov 13-14, 2024.
• Our work on Kramers-Kronig based direct conversion receiver was selected at the IMS 2024 Postdeadline Session! 
• My work on physical layer security published in JSSC 2024. Link here.
• Speaker at the inaugural edition of World Microwave Congress -2024.
• Presented our work on RF computational imaging at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference 2024.
• Presented at Spring 2024 meeting of Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning – CAEML 
• Outreach: ASSIST Wearable Device Challenge: Served as a competition judge for high school and middle school teams.
• Our work on CMOS Cytometry accepted in TCAS Bio journal.
• Funding Award: Received seed funding from Institute for Connected Sensor Systems -ICONS on development of millimeter-wave harmonic radars.
• Invited Talk: Virginia Tech, Electrical and Computer Engineering Seminar, March 2024.
• Outreach: Engineering Place – Engineering Bits and Bytes – Circuits for elementary school. 
• Will be serving as Co-Chair for Technical Program Committee in World Microwave Congress 2024.
• Invited to serve on IMS Technical Program Review Committee 2024. 
• Will be serving at Region 3-USA Coordinator for IEEE-MTTS Young Professional Committee. 
• Presented an invited talk on RF computational Imaging at IEEE CAMA 2023.
• Our latest research on reconfigurable antenna surfaces, featuring large-area electronics RF Thin Film Transistors (TFT), is published in JSSC. 
• Origami-based Computational imaging RF cameras accepted in IEEE APS-URSI Conference 2023.
• Collaborative work on Wavefront manipulation attacks through programmable metasurfaces accepted in ACM WiSec 2023.
• Serving as a session chair at IEEE Wamicom 2023.
• I will be giving an invited talk at IEEE Wamicom 2023. I will be presenting my work on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces enabled through CMOS IC. 
• Invited Talk: “THz and mm-Wave Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces”, ECE NCSU Colloquium March 31, 2023. 
• Our Origami-based Computational Imaging work selected as the cover image of the Advanced Science August Issue. Check it here. 
• Promoted to IEEE Senior Member!
• Starting as an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, ECE Department.
• Our work on Origami-based microwave computational imaging system using broadband metasurfaces accepted in Advanced Science, Wiley. Check the paper here. 
• Presented my work on CMOS IC enabled active reflector arrays for resilent and secure communication links at RFIC 2022, Denver, Colorado.

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• Presented my work on time-modulated antenna arrays for physical layer security at Wamicom 2022, Clearwater Beach, Florida. 
• Our work on Spatio-Temporal Modulated Physical Layer Security presented in ACM Mobicom, mmNets 2021 workshop. Here is the link.
• Our collaborative work with AFRL (Dayton, Ohio) and CMU on stretchable RF transmission lines using liquid metal elastomers published in Advanced Engineering Materials, Wiley. Here is the link: 
• Our work on Reconfigurable Active mm-wave Mirror accepted in RFIC 2022.
• Promoted to Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University!
  https://ece.princeton.edu/people/suresh-venkatesh
• Press coverage of our wireless security work!
  https://ece.princeton.edu/news/new-chip-hides-wireless-messages-plain-sight
  https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/935848
• Our work on wireless security published in Nature Electronics, November issue. The link to the paper can be found here.
• Our work on THz Prism published in Journal of Solid State Circuits. This is the extended invited version of our ISSCC 2021 paper.
• I have been selected to serve as a an Affiliate Member for two IEEE MTTS committees, namely;  MTT-23 Wireless Communication Technical Committee and MMT-21 Terahertz Technology and Applications Committee.
• I am excited to announce that I have been awarded the prestigious Mistletoe Research Fellowship (’21-’22) by Momental Foundation. This award provides me unrestricted grant to develop technology with humanitarian impact. I will be spearheading work on the intersection of electromagnetics and integrated circuits, advancing autonomous end-to-end wireless systems.
  Press Coverage: https://ece.princeton.edu/news/wireless-systems-expert-venkatesh-wins-fellowship-develop-technology-humanitarian-impact
• I will be presenting my THz CMOS metasurface work at METAMATERIALS 2021 Conference on Sep 23.
• Our paper “Spectrum-to-space Mapping With 0.36-0.4 THz On-chip Transceiver For One-shot Localization” is one of the top 6 finalist for Best Paper Award in IRMMW-THz 2021. 
• I will be the Millimeter-Wave Components & Systems session chair in IRMMW-THz 2021.
• I will be presenting couple of THz works in ANTEM 2021. 
• Our programmable CMOS THz Metasurface work highlighted in Tech Briefs Magazine! Link here
• Three papers accepted in CLEO 2021! Congrats Hooman and Xuyang! 
• Some popular press coverage of the THz metasurface work here:
  1) https://sciencex.com/news/2020-12-electromagnetic-circuit-co-design-approach-dynamically-programmable.html
• 2) https://ee.princeton.edu/news/super-surfaces-use-terahertz-waves-help-bounce-wireless-communication-next-generation
• 3) https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2020/12/14/super-surfaces-use-terahertz-waves-help-bounce-wireless-communication-next
• Our work on dynamically programmable THz holographic metasurface using CMOS chip tiles published in Nature Electronics, Dec 2020. This work is also the Cover Feature article! 
• Our work on Optimized Sparse Array for millimeter-wave Computational Imaging is published in IEEE Transaction of Antennas & Propagation. We device a mathematical optimization tool for the design mm-wave computation imaging apertures that performs under SWaP-C constraints. Congrats Naren!
• Our work on “Giga-Hertz Large-Area-Electronics RF Switch and its Application to Reconfigurable Antennas”, accepted in IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, 2020. This work was in collaboration with Prof. Naveen Verma’s group at Princeton. Congrats Can Wu! 
• Our work on “THz Prism: One-shot Simultaneous Multi-node Angular Localization using Spectrum-to-Space Mapping with 360-400 GHz Broadband Transceiver and Dual-port Integrated Leaky Wave Antennas”, accepted in ISSCC 2021. This is also the Highlight Paper of the session. Congrats Hooman and Xuyang!
• Our work on “Terahertz to Bits and Bits to Terahertz: Universally Programmable Chip-scale TeraHertz Systems” was accepted in 7th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication 2020. 
• Our work on “Spatio-Temporal Modulated Millimeter-wave Antenna Arrays for Secure Wireless Links” accepted in APS/URSI 2020.
• Two papers accepted in International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Both work deals with new mm-wave power amplifier circuits using InP process.  Great work from Tushar Sharma and Zheng Liu! 
• Our work on “Physically Secure sub-THz Wireless Links”  accepted in IEEE ICC 2020 Workshop on Terahertz Communications. 
• Will be attending ISSCC-2020 in San Francisco, CA. We will be presenting two papers this time.
• I will be serving as the IEEE MTTS Young Professionals Region 1-6 Coordinator – Jan 2020 – Present.
• Attending IMARC 2019, IIT Bombay. 
• I will be serving in the EE Climate Committee, Princeton University, Nov 2019. https://ee.princeton.edu/about/climate-committee 
• Attending Young Professionals in Space, Dubai UAE, Nov 2019. http://ypinspace.ae 
• Two submissions accepted at ISSCC 2020! One work deals with Spatio-Temporal scheme for physical layer security in millimeter wave communications and other work is on 420 GHz power generation in CMOS.  Great work from Xuyang Lu & Hooman Saeidi!
• Attending a NSF Workshop on Hardware Security, Washington DC, Oct 2019.
• Invited talk at a startup company in Raleigh and visit to my alma mater NC State University, Sep 2019.
• Visit to a startup company in Boston, Aug 2019.
• Attending IMS Conference, Boston,  June 2019. 
• AFOSR MURI grant review, Dayton OH, May 2019.
• Attending ISSCC 2019, San Francisco, Feb 2019.
• Will be part of the Prison Teaching Initiative Program, Princeton. Will be teaching Physics 130 (Astronomy) at Wagner Youth Correctional Facility, NJ this spring.  Great initiative and encourage others to join this movement!
• Our work on 2D Magnetic sensing array using CMOS accepted in CICC 2019! Great work by Hao Tang.
• Visit to Caltech for MURI grant review.  http://origami.caltech.edu/ 
• Our work on Near field magnifier design using Transformation Optics published! 
• Invited talk at IIT Bombay, Jan 2019.
• Invited talk at IIT Madras, Jan 2019.  
• Attending IMARC 2018, Kolkata. Will be delivering an invited talk at YP sessions.
• Invited to participate in STEM faculty workshop at WPI, Oct 2018.