School of Engineering

Mona Hella
Assistant Professor

Department Affiliation:

Department of Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering

Education:

Ph.D., Ohio State University
Electrical Engineering

M.S., Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Electronics and Communications Engineering

B.S., Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Electrical Engineering

Background:

From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Hella was a teaching and research assistant at Ain Shams University. From 1997-2001 she was a research assistant at the Ohio-state University, working on RF circuits for wireless applications. In the summer of 1998, she was with the Helsinki university of Technology (HUT), Espoo, Finland as a visiting scholar working on 2GHz BiCMOS Local oscillator generating circuits. From June 1999-December 1999, she was with the analog group at Intel cooperation, Chandler, AZ working on the design of transmitters for cable modems. She was also a designer at Spirea AB, Stockholm, Sweden working on CMOS power amplifiers for Bluetooth technology (2000-2001). From 2001 to 2003, she was a senior designer at RFMD Inc, Billerica, MA working on Optical communication systems, as well as power amplifier for IEEE802.11b. Her research interests include the areas of mixed-signal VLSI and design of RF circuits for wireless and wire-line applications.

Research Interests:

1.Silicon-Based Radio-Frequency Power Amplifiers
"Designing RF power amplifiers in CMOS and SiGe technologies, targeting W-CDMA and IEEE802.11a/b/g standards. "Studying different linearization, and efficiency enhancement techniques, and comparing their performance with respect to the modulation scheme. "Multi-mode/Multi-band implementation of power amplifiers. "Studying different technological aspects, and methods required to make the silicon technology more suitable for the implementation of a low cost, medium to high power amplifiers.

2. Multi-Gb/s Broadband Communications Circuits
"Studying different techniques for bandwidth enhancement of trans-impedance amplifiers. "Circuits for burst-mode transceivers for passive optical networks (PON). "Investigating the issues of integration of optical components in mainstream silicon technologies.

3. RF Circuits for Ultra-wideband systems (UWB)
4. Silicon-Based designs for millimeter wave circuits