AP/COM/MTT Student Chapter Leuven

Sevda Seyyedmasoumian – Chair

She received her B.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from Tabriz University, Iran, in 2016, followed by an M.Sc. in Optical Communications Engineering in 2019, with a focus on nanoantenna design. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven, Belgium, specializing in microwave biosensors and microwave interferometry for cancer detection. Her primary research interests include microwave dielectric characterization, biosensors, and microwave interferometric techniques for life science applications.

Benyamin Harkinezhad – Vice Chair

Benyamin earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Zanjan in 2017, where he co-founded the Robotics Association and worked on mobile robotics and embedded systems. He pursued a master’s at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, researching the Seebeck effect in microfluidic systems for sensing and energy harvesting, while also contributing to humidity and gas sensing projects. After graduating in 2019, he worked at Ehya Darmane Pishrafteh on medical equipment until 2021. Benyamin is now a joint PhD candidate at KU Leuven and the University of Melbourne, developing flexible microwave biosensors. He also serves as co-chair of the IEEE MTT-AP-COM Chapter at KU Leuven, supporting collaboration in microwave engineering and applied electromagnetics.

Haoqiu Xiong – Secretary

He received the M.Sc. (2022) in electronic engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. Currently, he is a PhD student working on Integrated Sensing and Communication at the department of electrical engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium.

He received the M.Sc. (2022) in electronic engineering from Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. Currently, he is a PhD student working on Integrated Sensing and Communication at the department of electrical engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Raquel Marina Noguera Oishi – Treasurer

Raquel received her B.Sc. in Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineering from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, and her M.Sc. in Electronic Systems Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, with an Iberdrola scholarship for academic excellence. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at WaveCoRe, KU Leuven, focusing on Over-the-Air synchronization for future 6G networks. Her research specializes in developing advanced methods and algorithms for distributed synchronization in O-RAN architectures. Her interests include wireless communications, signal processing, and mmWave technologies.

Marie Mertens – Publicity

Marie obtained her bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the KU Leuven Engineering Sciences Faculty in 2019. In the first year of her master’s in Biomedical Engineering, she studied in KTH in Stockholm for one year with the Erasmus exchange program. She completed the second year at KU Leuven (2021, magna cum laude). She is now pursuing the degree of PhD in a collaboration between KU Leuven (BE) and Polytechnique Montréal (CA). She aims to electromagnetically characterize and model artificial tissues in a broadband frequency range.

Maede Chavoshi – Volunteer

She received B.Sc. (2016) in electrical engineering (communications) from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and her M.Sc. (2019) in electrical engineering (micro and nano-electronic devices) from the University of Tehran, Iran.
Currently, she is a Ph.D. student working on microwave biosensors for cancer detection at the Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium. Her primary research interest is microwave dielectric spectroscopy and heating for life science applications focusing on cell studies.

Matko Martinic – Volunteer

He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and information technology from the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, in 2018 and 2020, respectively. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. degree at KU Leuven with focus on microwave heating in flow chemistry, dielectric modeling, and microwaves for life science applications.

Christos Mystilidis – Volunteer

Christos received his B.Sc. and M.Eng from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2020. He joined the WaveCoRE division, Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven in January 2021 as a PhD student. Since then he has been working on computational mesoscopic electromagnetics and trying to figure out how to entice more engineering students in theoretical research. 

Pouya Mehrjouseresht – Volunteer

Pouya completed his B.S. degree at Hamedan University of Technology, Hamadan, Iran, followed by an M.S. degree in communication fields and waves from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. degree at KU Leuven. Pouya’s research interests include wireless power transfer, RF and Microwave system design, MIMO radars, biomedical signal processing, and electromagnetic propagation.

Georgin Jacob – Volunteer

Georgin has completed his Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Kerala , India in 2021.

Currently, he is pursuing his Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, specializing in ICT Security and Networks at KU Leuven, Belgium.