Rashed Mahameed

Rashed Mahameed (M'07) received the B. Sc., M. Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 2000, 2003, and 2006, respectively. His Ph.D. dissertation concerned thermal effects in microsystems (MEMS) and their application to novel microdevices. From 2006 to 2008, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. During that time, he developed the first piezoelectric aluminum nitride (AlN) RF MEMS switch, which was cointegrated with AlN micromechanical contour-mode resonators and filters. From 2008 to 2010, he was an Assistant Project Scientist with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, where he was involved with the development of RF MEMS switches and tunable capacitors with low sensitivity to temperature and residual stress. He is currently with Cavendish Kinetics Inc., San Jose, CA. His research interests are MEMS modeling, design and fabrication of thermoelastic, piezoelectric, and electrostatic actuators, and RF MEMS switches. Dr. Mahameed is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).