Khan Lab @ USC

Khan Lab group photo

Principal Investigator

Yasser Khan

Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California

Yasser Khan is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair and an Assistant Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California, which he joined in 2022. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas and KAUST, respectively. Dr. Khan completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018, and later conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Khan’s research focuses on additive manufacturing and hardware-enabled AI to develop next-generation wearables, implantables, and ingestibles for precision health and psychiatry. He has received several prestigious honors, including the 2026 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2025 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, the 2025 IEEE Sensors Council Early Career Technical Achievement Award, the 2025 USC Viterbi Junior Faculty Research Award, the 2024 Packard Fellowship, and the 2023 Google Research Scholar Award. Earlier in his career, he received the EECS Departmental Fellowship at UC Berkeley, the Discovery Scholarship and Graduate Fellowship at KAUST, and the Academic Excellence Scholarship at UT Dallas. His work has been published in Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS, Advanced Materials family of journals, and other leading platforms, and has been featured by major outlets including BBC News, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and NSF News.

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Open Positions ✨

Prospective students and postdocs: If you want to work on exciting bioelectronics and medical devices at the intersection of engineering and medicine, please feel free to reach out to Prof. Khan. We are always looking for candidates with experience and interests in additive manufacturing, flexible and stretchable electronics, bioelectronics, sensors, embedded systems, and hardware AI.

PhD Students

Mohammad Shafiqul Islam

email: islamm@usc.edu
years: 2022 –

Shafiq is from Bangladesh. He completed his BSc, MSc, and MSE in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and Princeton University, respectively. His research interests include designing and fabricating devices and circuits for biosensing. Currently, he is working on sensors and transistors and their system-level implementation for near- and in-sensor computing. He enjoys hiking and trying different cuisines in his free time.

Md Farhad Hassan

email: mdfarhad@usc.edu
years: 2022 –

Md Farhad Hassan graduated from the Islamic University of Technology (IUT) with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2018 and 2021, respectively. He also served as a faculty member at the same institution. His undergraduate and graduate studies focused on the design and numerical analysis of photonic biosensors for lab-on-a-chip applications. He received Best Student Paper Awards at ISITIA 2020 and TENCON 2020, two IEEE conferences held in Indonesia and Japan, respectively. His research focuses on the development of wearable medical devices, with particular interest in printed bioelectronics and biophotonics.

Lama Almofeez

email: lalmofee@usc.edu
years: 2025 –

Lama was born and raised in Saudi Arabia. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University and her master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), where she is now pursuing her PhD. Lama is currently working on temperature sensing of cardiac implant leads inside MRIs. Her broader research interests include developing medical devices and wearable technologies to advance women’s health. In her free time, Lama enjoys baking, playing board and video games, traveling, and spending time with family.

Munia Ferdoushi

email: ferdoush@usc.edu
years: 2023 –

Munia Ferdoushi is a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on developing flexible, wearable, and implantable bioelectronic systems for continuous physiological, biochemical, and neural monitoring. She integrates nanoscale transistors, electrochemical biosensors, microfluidics, and machine learning to create multimodal platforms for applications in precision psychiatry, traumatic brain injury, and neurological disorders. Her expertise involves aptamer-based biomarker sensing, implantable neural interfaces, and micro- and nanofabrication. Before joining USC, she served as a faculty member at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Thilina S. Ambagahawaththa

email: ambagaha@usc.edu
years: 2025 –

Thilina was born and raised in Sri Lanka and joined the Khan Lab in the Summer of 2025. He received his B.Sc. in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (2011) and M.Sc. in Power Electronics (2021) from the University of Moratuwa (UoM), Sri Lanka, where he currently holds a Lecturer position on study leave. He completed his M.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California in 2024. His previous research focused on DC-DC converter synthesis, mm-wave oscillator design, algorithmic design of mm-wave ICs, and mm-wave power amplifiers. He was a member of the second runner-up team in the IEEEXtreme Programming Competition in both 2012 and 2014. At the Khan Lab, Thilina is interested in wearable systems and analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits for biomedical sensing. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, listening to music, and playing the concert flute and alto saxophone.

Sandra Lara Galindo

email: laragali@usc.edu
years: 2024 –

Sandra is from Tampico, Mexico. She received her BS degree in Biomedical Engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida and her MS degree in Bioengineering from San Diego State University. She joined USC as a PhD student in Fall 2021. Her research focuses on developing wearable and ingestible sensors to detect neurotransmitters in sweat and the gastrointestinal tract. She enjoys going to the beach, traveling, swimming, and finding the best matcha ice cream in LA.

June Shao

email: juneshao@usc.edu
years: 2025 –

Sudipta Saha

email: sudiptas@usc.edu
years: 2026 –

Seunghee (Clara) Han

email: shan9760@usc.edu
years: 2026 –

Masters Students

Wenxin Cai

email: wenxinc@usc.edu
years: 2024 –

Wenxin recently earned his M.S. in Materials Engineering from USC, following his B.S. in Materials Chemistry from Nanjing University. His research at the Khan Lab centers on the development of wearable bioelectronics for precision psychiatry, particularly electrochemical aptamer-based sensing platforms. Beyond research, he enjoys exploring art museums and galleries, photography, and track driving.

Suhail Hooker

email: shooker@usc.edu
years: 2026 –

Suhail Hooker is a Master’s candidate in Biomedical Engineering (Neuroengineering track) researching in the Khan Lab under Md Farhad Hassan. Currently developing racially unbiased, flexible printed pulse oximeters, Suhail focuses on the intersection of printed bioelectronics and neuro-monitoring. By advancing equitable optical sensor design on skin-like substrates, he seeks to adapt flexible printed wearables for next-generation non-invasive neural interfaces, bridging the gap between peripheral vascular optics and continuous brain and autonomic health tracking.

Preeti Ramesh

email: preetira@usc.edu
years: 2025 –

Preeti is a master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at USC, specializing in Machine Learning and Data Science. She received her bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India. She is passionate about applying machine learning and signal processing to biomedical devices and developing technologies that can meaningfully improve healthcare. Outside of academics, Preeti enjoys blogging, meditating, gardening, and spending an unreasonable amount of time on jigsaw puzzles.

Undergraduate Students

Lehar Goenka

email: lgoenka@usc.edu
years: 2025 –

Lehar Goenka is a third-year majoring in Biomedical Engineering with an emphasis in Electrical Engineering from Mumbai, India. In the lab, her research focuses on electrochemical sensing. Outside the lab she is a part of the Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering as well as Illumin Magazine. She enjoys hiking, reading, and trying different food spots in LA.

Hansini Ramachandran

email: hramacha@usc.edu
years: 2024 –

Hansini is a sophomore studying Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Dance. Her research interests include hardware and circuit design for medical devices. She is also an active member of USC Makers and an undergraduate course producer. In her free time, she enjoys dancing, singing, and performing.

Ted Lê

email: tedpl@usc.edu
years: 2023 –

Ted is a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Inland Empire, CA. His research centers on Medical Imaging, Additive Manufacturing, and RF Engineering and is passionate about entrepreneurship. Outside of the lab, he enjoys watching sports, training MMA, and backpacking.

Eason Bai

email: easonbai@usc.edu
years: 2026 –

Eason is an undergraduate studying Electrical Engineering, interested in all kinds of things, including sensors, chips, and motorsports.

Alexander Nibauer

email: nibauer@usc.edu
years: 2026 –

Alex Nibauer is a second-year undergraduate student studying Biomedical Engineering with an emphasis in Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on biosensor engineering and device fabrication, and he is interested in exploring wearable and implantable technologies for medical applications. Outside the lab, Alex is the treasurer of Advocates for Healthy Aging. In his free time, he enjoys staying active by weightlifting and is always on the hunt for fun, new coffee spots.

Aisha Chowdhury

email: aishacho@usc.edu
years: 2026 –

Aisha is a third-year Biomedical Engineering student at USC with an emphasis in Electrical Engineering. Her work in the lab focuses on fabricating wearable bioelectronic sensors to quantify physiological signals for clinical applications. She actively serves on the board of the Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering, organizing STEM-based outreach events for local youth. Outside of academics, she loves cooking, going out with friends, and movie nights.

Hidaya Rajput

email: hrajput@usc.edu
years: 2026 –

Hidaya Rajput is a fourth-year undergraduate student studying Biomedical Engineering with a minor in Human Rights. She is passionate about developing accessible medical technology that improves patient care and broadens access to healthcare. Outside of the lab, she enjoys exploring new coffee shops and spending time at the beach.

Sophia Castillo

email: sophiedc@usc.edu
years: 2026 –

Sophia Castillo is a fourth-year majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Making and Connected Devices, originally from El Salvador. In the lab, her research focuses on electrochemical sensing and material integrity. Outside the lab she is a part of the Association of Energy Engineers. She enjoys swimming, hiking, painting, and playing the piano.

Visitors

Mattin Tasbihgoo

email: mtasbihgoo1@hwemail.com
Mattin is a senior at Harvard-Westlake High School aspiring to major in biomedical engineering. He is passionate about exploring the human body through wearable sensors in hopes of improving our way of life. In school, Mattin was the captain of his school’s robotics team, vice president of the dissection outreach organization, and a CPR instructor. Outside of school, he enjoys working on coding projects, building computers, skiing, playing tennis, collecting vinyl records, and is an avid car enthusiast.