EE Seminar: Towards mm-Wave radar and communications: Rejoining cousins that were never removed
(The talk will be given in English)
Speaker: Dr. Kumar Vijay Mishra
ARL (United States Army Research Laboratory) & University of Iowa.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
15:00 - 16:00
Room 011, Kitot Bldg., Faculty of Engineering
Towards mm-Wave radar and communications: Rejoining cousins that were never removed
Abstract
Synergistic design of communications and radar systems with common spectral and hardware resources is heralding a new era of efficiently utilizing a limited radio-frequency (RF) spectrum. Such a joint radar communications (JRC) model has advantages of low cost, compact size, less power consumption, spectrum sharing, improved performance, and safety due to enhanced information sharing. Today, millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) communications have emerged as the preferred technology for short-distance wireless links because they provide transmission bandwidth that is several gigahertz wide. This band is also promising for short-range automotive radar applications, which benefit from the high-range resolution arising from large transmit signal bandwidths. Major challenges are joint waveform design and performance criteria that would optimally trade-off between communications and radar functionalities. In this talk, we present our recent works on mm-Wave JRC, with a focus on automotive applications.
Short Bio
Dr. Kumar Vijay Mishra obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and M.S. in mathematics from The University of Iowa in 2015, and M.S. in electrical engineering from Colorado State University in 2012, while working on NASA’s Global Precipitation Mission Ground Validation (GPM-GV) weather radars. He received his B. Tech. summa cum laude (Gold Medal, Honors) in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (NITH), India in 2003. He is currently U. S. National Academies Diamond Distinguished Fellow at United States Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Adelphi; Technical Adviser to Singapore-based automotive radar start-up Hertzwell; and honorary Research Fellow at SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg. Previously, he had research appointments at Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Bengaluru; IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering, Iowa City, IA; Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA; Qualcomm, San Jose; and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He is the recipient of Royal Meteorological Society Quarterly Journal Editors Prize (2017), Viterbi Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015, 2016), Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017), Technion EE Excellent Undergraduate Adviser Award (2017), DRDO LRDE Scientist of the Year Award (2006), NITH Director’s Gold Medal (2003), and NITH Best Student Award (2003). His research interests include radar systems, signal processing, remote sensing, and electromagnetics.
