From hamidj at uci.edu  Fri Feb 17 13:43:51 2017
From: hamidj at uci.edu (hamidj)
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:43:51 -0800
Subject: [CPCC] CPCC seminar by Muralidhar Rangaswamy
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Title: Fully Adaptive Radar

Speaker: Muralidhar Rangaswamy

Date: Feb. 21, 2017, Tue.

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: CALIT2 Room 3008

ABSTRACT

This tutorial will provide an overview of adaptive radar processing from 
the
standpoint of bringing to bear optimally and adaptively, all available 
degrees
of freedom on transmit and receive to address the problem of detection,
tracking, and classification from a single as well as a multi-sensor
perspective. The idea of closed loop radar processing will be 
introduced.
Pertinent research challenges will be identified and addressed. 
Important
issues of training data heterogeneity, computational cost, waveform
optimization and design as well as joint transmit-receive adaptive 
processing
will be addressed.

SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHY

Muralidhar Rangaswamy received the B.E. degree in Electronics
Engineering from Bangalore University, Bangalore, India in 1985 and the 
M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, 
NY, in 1992.  He is
presently employed as the Senior Advisor for Radar Research at the RF 
Exploitation
Branch within the Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research 
Laboratory (AFRL). Prior to this he
has held industrial and academic appointments. His research interests 
include radar signal processing, spectrum estimation, modeling non-
Gaussian interference phenomena, and statistical communication theory. 
He has co-authored
more than 200 refereed journal and conference record papers in the areas 
of his research
interests. Additionally, he is a contributor to 8 books and is  a 
co-inventor on 3 U.S. patents.
Dr. Rangaswamy served as the Technical Editor (Associate 
Editor-in-Chief) for Radar Systems
in the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (IEEE-TAES) 
from 2007-2015
and as an Associate Editor for Radar Systems within the IEEE-TAES from 
2004-2007.
He was the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Digital Signal Processing journal 
between 2005 and 2011.
Dr. Rangaswamy was a member of the Senior Editorial Board of the IEEE 
Journal of Selected
Topics in Signal Processing (Jan 2012-Dec 2014).  He was a 2 term 
elected member of the
sensor array and multichannel processing technical committee (SAM-TC) of 
the IEEE Signal Processing Society
between January 2005 and December 2010 and serves as a member of the 
Radar Systems Panel (RSP)
in the IEEE-AES Society.  He was the General Chairman for the 4 the IEEE 
Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing
(SAM-2006), Waltham, MA, July 2006. Dr. Rangaswamy has served on the 
Technical Committee of the IEEE Radar
Conference series in a myriad of roles (Track Chair, Session Chair, 
Special Session Organizer
and Chair, Paper Selection Committee Member, Tutorial Lecturer). He 
served as the Publicity
Chair for the First IEEE International Conference on Waveform Diversity 
and Design,
Edinburgh, U.K. November 2004. He presently serves on the conference 
sub-committee of the
RSP. He was the Technical Program Chairman for the 2014 IEEE Radar 
Conference.
He received the IEEE Warren White Radar Award in 2013, the 2013 
Affiliate Societies Council
Dayton (ASC-D) Outstanding Scientist and Engineer Award, the 2007 IEEE 
Region 1 Award,
the 2006 IEEE Boston Section Distinguished Member Award, and the 2005 
IEEE-AESS
Fred Nathanson memorial outstanding young radar engineer award. He was 
elected as a Fellow of
the IEEE in January 2006 with the citation ?for contributions to 
mathematical techniques for
radar space-time adaptive processing?. He received the 2012 and 2005
Charles Ryan basic research award from the Sensors Directorate of AFRL, 
in addition to more than 40
scientific achievement awards.