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Rensselaer High Frequency Integrated Circuits (RHFIC)Laboratory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Prof. Mona M. Hella received the B.Sc., and Masters degrees with Honors from Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1993, and 1996, and the Ph.D. degree, in 2001, from The Ohio-State University, Columbus, Ohio, all in Electrical Engineering.

From 1993 to 1997, she 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. She was with the Helsinki university of Technology (HUT), Espoo, Finland as a visiting scholar in 1998, and with the analog group at Intel cooperation, Chandler, AZ in Summer 1999. She was a senior designer at Spirea AB, Stockholm, Sweden working on CMOS power amplifiers (2000-2001). From 2001 to 2003, she was a senior designer at RFMD Inc, Billerica, MA working on Optical communication systems, as well as silicon-based wireless systems. She joined the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an Assistant Professor in 2004. Her research interests include the areas of analog, mixed-signal, and RF for wireless, wire-line, and future bio- applications.

 

Ph.D Students

 

 

burak_catliBurak Çatlı received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

He was a graduate student and Research Assistant in the Electronic and Communication Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University between 1998 and 2005. From 1998 to 2005, he was a Design Engineer with, the ETA-IC Design Center, Istanbul, Turkey developing RF front-end blocks and high-speed high-resolution data converter systems for industrial and military applications. During summers of 2006 and 2007, he was with  RF Micro Devices, Boston, MA and during summer of 2008, he was with Qualcomm Inc, Santa Clara, CA . His research interests are in the area of analog  and mm-wave circuit design for integrated communication systems. He was awarded the 2007 Analog Devices Mixed Signal Design Contest for the best industrial grade design and is receipent of 2007 Veera and Arjun Saxena Fellowship in Microelectronics.

Burak graduated in Dec. 2009. He is currently with Boradcom.

 

 

 

pyeAndrew Pye received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003.  From 2003 to 2006, he was with Andrew Corporation designing high power, high volume RF power amplifiers cellular base stations, as well as software-defined radio equipment. 

 

Since 2006, he has been a graduate student at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is currently a Ph.D. candidate researching integrated power amplifiers and power combining techniques in modern CMOS processes.  He is currently a summer intern at Analog Devices, Inc.

His interests include RF and microwave, as well as classical analog design for integrated CMOS circuits.

 

 

 

DSC00778Han Peng received the B.S degrees in electrical engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, PR. China, in 2006. She is currently working toward the Ph.D degree in the Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

She was a research assistant in the Institute of RF&-OE-ICs., at Southeast University, Nanjing, PR.China, from 2006 to 2007. During summer of 2009, she was with TriQuint Semiconductor Inc., Hillsboro, OR, developing high frequency, fully integrated DC-DC converter systems. She is currently a summer intern at National Semiconductor. Her research interests are in the area of power management circuit design for integrated communication systems.

 

 

 

pic1Behrooz Nakhkoob received B.S. and M.Sc. degrees both in Electrical engineering from IUST (Iran Univ. of Sci. & Tech.) Tehran in 1994 and 1997 respectively.

From 1997 to 2000, he was with research department of IRIB (National broadcasting Center of Iran), where he developed professional analog video Teletext Encoder system for the first time in Iran. From 2000 to 2008, he was with Electronic and instrumentation department of NRI (Niroo Research Institute, Tehran-Iran). In Jan. 2008, he joined the Department of Electrical and System Engineering of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, as a Ph.D. student, working on integrated circuit design for high data rate wireless optical receivers. His interests are in high frequency and high speed analog circuit design for wireless and wireline applications.

 

 

fig.jpgAsantha Kempitiya received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU), NJ in 2007.  He was a Co-op engineer (2006-2007) in system integration at Panasonic Corporation of North America for approximately a year before joining Rensselaer Polytechnic in Fall of 2007. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering in May of 2009. He is presently a Research Assistant working towards a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering focusing on integrated CMOS power management and control circuitry for AC-DC power generation and energy harvesting applications.  His research interests include analog IC and DC-DC converter design.

 

Alumni

 

Yashas Hegde, Masters 2005, currently with Broadcom

Peter Paliwoda, Masters 2005, currently with Polytechnic University

Jie Weng, currently with Analog Devices

Tristan Lawry, Masters 2009, currently a PhD student at RPI

 

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