Mona Jarrahi
Mona Jarrahi (Persian: مونا جراحی; Jan 1979) is an Iranian Engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She investigates novel materials, terahertz/millimeter-wave electronics and optoelectronics, microwave photonics, imaging and spectroscopy systems. Jarrahi was honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2013 for her work on Terahertz Optoelectronics. Early life and career Jarrahi was born in Tehran and received her high school education in Iran. In 1995 she got a silver medal at the Iranian National Physics Olympiad. She got her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2000. She then joined Stanford University in 2001 as a graduate student where she got her MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2003 and 2007, respectively. In 2016 she received the "Sharif University of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award". She served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley from 2007 to 2008. After earning her Ph.D, Jarrahi joined University of Michigan Ann Arbor as an assistant professor (2008-2013). Afterward, she joined UCLA as an associate professor (2013-2017) and from 2017 she became a professor at UCLA in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Prof. Jarrahi has made contributions