Milad Taghavi
Milad Taghavi received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2013. He received his M.S. degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2014 with the highest honors recognized as “Top performer in Graduate School”. He won the “Best Presentation Recognition Award” in IECON 2014, Texas, Dallas, for the design of bidirectional single-phase chargers for PHEVs. Prior to joining the graduate program at Caltech, he worked at Parthian Energy, a Caltech spin-out company, as a guest researcher on the design of a surge-detection sensor for low-power high-efficiency energy systems. Currently, he is working toward his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University, with special emphasis on analog and mixed-signal circuits and systems.