Azadeh Ansari

Azadeh Ansari is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, holding the Sutterfield Family Early Career Professorship. She received her B.S. from Sharif University of Technology (2010), and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (2013, 2016), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech (2016–2017). Her research focuses on nano/micro-electro-mechanical systems (N/MEMS), with emphasis on III-V semiconductors and piezoelectric materials. Key areas include resonant devices for RF applications, nonlinear devices, and integrated microsystems. Ansari leads projects in microscale robotics, phononic frequency combs, and III-V electro-acoustic devices.

Research Interests:

• Resonant devices for timing, sensing, and RF applications
• III-V mm-wave acoustic filtering
• Microscale robot design and control
• Nonlinear resonators and phononic frequency combs
• III-V electro-acoustic devices and HEMTs

Her recent work includes collaborations with NASA JPL on extraterrestrial micro-swimmers and DARPA-funded projects on inertial sensors and high-temperature pressure sensors. Ansari has secured grants from DARPA DSO and presented at IEEE Transducers 2025 with four papers. She advises graduate students such as Zhijian (Chris) Hao, who defended his PhD in 2024. Ansari’s awards include the 2017 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award and the University of Michigan Towner Prize (2016). She serves on the IEEE Sensor’s Young Professional Committee and technical committees for IEEE IFCS 2018.

Lab and Collaborations: The Ansari Lab is part of Georgia Tech’s Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology. Collaborators include Prof. Kimberly Hoang (PBS-featured neurosurgery micro-drillers) and teams at Penn State University. Current projects include DARPA-funded frequency comb inertial sensors and underwater micro-robot sensor development for ICRA 2025.