Negar has won a 2016 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in collaboration with Ahmed Kord and Prof. Andrea Alu at UT-Austin for their proposal titled "Fully-Integrated Reconfigurable Magnet-less Non-reciprocal Components for Next-Generation Wireless Communication Systems". (Qualcomm link, Columbia Seas Article, Columbia EE Article)
Negar and Ahmed are among 8 winning teams selected from 129 proposals submitted from 18 universities.