IEEE IMAS 2026 Commercial Phased-Array Antennas Workshop

Dr. Ahmed Mehana is a Senior Manager in Systems Engineering at Analog Devices, where he leads system-architecture and algorithm-development activities for advanced wireless and phased-array systems.

He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2012 and his M.Sc. degree from Cairo University in 2007. Before joining Analog Devices in 2017, he worked at Samsung Research America in Dallas and Varkon Semiconductor in Egypt, contributing to wireless communication and signal-processing technologies.

His technical interests include digital signal-processing algorithms, wireless-system architecture, phased-array systems, satellite and terrestrial communications, beamforming, calibration, and RF-system design.

He has authored and presented numerous conference papers, workshops, and technical tutorials in wireless communications and microwave systems.

This session establishes the system-level foundation for the workshop. It explains how commercial application requirements are converted into phased-array architecture, antenna-aperture, RF-chain, processing, and calibration requirements.

Dr. Mohamed AbdAlla is a Technical Director at Analog Devices, where he leads the RF and analog integrated-circuit design team in Cairo, Egypt.

His work focuses on low-Earth-orbit satellite communications, millimeter-wave 5G systems, and wideband up-conversion and down-conversion solutions for communications, instrumentation, and point-to-point applications.

He has also recently expanded his work into optical connectivity for data-center applications.

Dr. AbdAlla joined Analog Devices in 2014 following its acquisition of Hittite Microwave Corporation, which he had joined in 2011. Before joining Hittite, he worked for three years at Gennum Corporation in Toronto, Canada.

He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 2008 and his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from Cairo University.

This session addresses the electronic building blocks required to implement phased-array transmitters and receivers. It connects system specifications to beamformer, amplifier, frequency-conversion, frequency-generation, data-conversion, and control requirements.

Particular attention should be given to commercial constraints such as bandwidth, power consumption, integration level, testability, production variation, thermal density, and time to market.

Dr. Ahmed A. Sakr received his B.Sc. degree with honors in electronics and electrical communications engineering and his M.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Cairo University in 2010 and 2014, respectively.

He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Montréal, in 2018.

From 2011 to 2014, he served as a teaching and research assistant in the Department of Engineering Physics at Cairo University. In 2018, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

In 2019, he joined the Department of Engineering Mathematics and Physics at Cairo University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He concurrently joined Analog Devices in 2019, where he serves as a Staff Engineer.

His research interests include millimeter-wave passive components, antennas, phased-array systems, advanced packaging, and computational electromagnetics.

This session covers the antenna, passive, packaging, and electromagnetic aspects of phased-array implementation. It emphasizes that the array cannot be designed independently of the electronics, package, interconnects, thermal structure, radome, and product enclosure.

The session should connect analytical array concepts with full-wave electromagnetic behavior and manufacturable hardware.