Mohammed Reza M. Hashemi received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with highest honor from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2004, M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2006, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011. Dr. Hashemi was a postdoctoral scholar at the Terahertz Electronics Laboratory from 2011 to 2016 and conducted research on reconfigurable metamaterials for terahertz wave modulation and beam-forming. In 2015 he was nominated by UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering Department for the prestigious Chancellor's Postdoctoral Award and he was selected among the top 26 UCLA postdocs from all departments and recognized for his excellent research achievements. He was also the recipient of Melvin P. Bloom Memorial Graduate Fellowship, Hervey Engineering Scholarship, Educational Opportunity Grant, Charles Chun Engineering Scholarship, and University of Nevada, Reno General Scholarship. He is currently a senior postdoctoral scholar at California Institute of Technology.