Current Distinguished Lectures

Elias Aboutanios ^{Country AUS} Affiliation The University of New South Wales IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Radar Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Radar Target Detection in Heterogeneous Environments Direction-Of-Arrival Estimation: Approaches and Recent Advances Dual Function Radar Communications
Mohamed Slim Alouini ^{Country SAU} Affiliation King Abdullah University of Science and Technology IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Glue Technologies for Space Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	A light in digital darkness: Optical wireless communications for connecting the unconnected Coverage enhancement of underwater and maritime multi-level communication networks Towards Extreme Band Communications
Yaakov Bar-Shalom ^{Country USA} Affiliation University of Connecticut IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Target Tracking Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Target Tracking and Data Fusion: How to Get the Most Out of Your Sensors Estimation for a Feedback System with a Desired Final State and Intermittent Stochastic Inputs Full State Information Transfer Across Adjacent Cameras in a Network Using Gauss Helmert Filters Measurement Extraction for a Point Target From an Optical Sensor
W. Dale Blair ^{Country USA} Affiliation Georgia Tech Research Institute IEEE Region Region 3 (Southeastern U.S.) Radar Systems Systems Engineering Target Tracking Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Tracking Maneuvering Targets in a World of Netted Sensors Systematic Filter Design for Tracking Maneuvering Targets Tracking Maneuvering Targets in a World of Netted Sensors Engineering in the Real World Filter Design for Radar Tracking of Maneuvering Targets
Erik P. Blasch ^{Country USA} Affiliation US Air Force Research Lab IEEE Region Region 7 (Canada) 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Overview of High-Level Information Fusion Theory, Models, & Representations Multispectral Image Fusion & Night Vision Colorization
Michael Braasch ^{Country USA} Affiliation Ohio University IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) Navigation Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Characterization & Mitigation of Multipath in GNSS Fundamentals of Inertial Navigation Fundamentals of Inertial Aiding Inertial+, the Once and Future Navigation System Gravity-Modeling Considerations in High-Integrity Inertial Systems Iron Stomachs and White Knuckles: Lessons Learned from 60 Years of Flight Testing
Stefano Coraluppi ^{Country USA} Affiliation Systems & Technology Research IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Target Tracking Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Multiple-Hypothesis Tracking (MHT) Distributed MHT and Extensions
Mark E. Davis Affiliation Independent Consultant IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Radar Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Ultra Wide Band Surveillance Radar Foliage Penetration Radar
Antonio De Maio ^{Country ITA} Affiliation University of Naples Federico II Memberships AESS , SPS IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Radar Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Radar Detection, Performance, & CFAR Techniques Optimization Theory in Radar Signal Processing Electronic Attack and Antenna Based Countermeasures Adaptive Radar Detection
Giuseppe A. Fabrizio ^{Country AUS} Affiliation Defence Science and Technology Group IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Radar Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Robust Adaptive Array Processing for Radar Introduction to Over-the-Horizon Radar
Alfonso Farina ^{Country ITA} Affiliation Retired IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Radar Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Radar Adaptivity: Antenna Based Signal Processing Techniques Green Radar: A Review and Perspectives for Signal and Data Processing of Passive Coherent Location Radar (PCLR) The Role of Multitarget Tracking Radar in Surveillance Systems Radar Technology and Sustainability: How to Conjugate Innovation and Social Duties
Giancarmine Fasano ^{Country ITA} Affiliation University of Naples “Federico II” IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Principles and Cooperative Techniques for Multi-drone Systems and Swarms Advances in Detect and Avoid for Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Advanced Air Mobility
Jesus Gonzalez-Llorente ^{Country COL} Affiliation Universidad del Rosario / Independent Consultant IEEE Region Region 9 (Latin America) Avionics Systems Aerospace Systems Integration Engineering Systems Engineering Space Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Design of Efficient and Electrical Power Systems for Small Spacecraft Space nanogrids: Bringing rapid development, low-cost and less failure to space missions Modern small satellites and new design methodologies as enablers of capacity-building on developing countries
Felix Govaers ^{Country DEU} Affiliation Fraunhofer Institute for Communication IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Target Tracking Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Multi Sensor Fusion in Distributed Systems An Introduction to Track-to-Track Fusion and the Distributed Kalman Filter An Introduction to State Estimation with Discrete Densities Using Tensor Decompositions An Introduction to Non-linear State Estimation and Target Tracking Based on Tensor Decompositions An Introduction to Quantum Computing and Data Fusion Distributed Sequential Likelihood Ratio Testing for Track Existence Decisions
Maria Sabrina Greco ^{Country ITA} Affiliation University of Pisa IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Radar Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Sea & Land Clutter Statistical Analysis & Modeling Advanced Techniques of Radar Detection in Non-Gaussian Background Cognitive Radar
Karen Haigh ^{Country USA} Affiliation Haskill Consulting IEEE Region Region 4 (Central U.S.) Artificial Intelligence Communications Electronic Warfare Radar Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Cognitive EW: Using AI to Solve EW problems Cognitive EW: Assuring In-Mission Learning for EW Cognitive EW: Data Requirements for AI Cognitive EW: Decision Making for Unified EMS Effects Cognitive RF Systems: Using AI to Solve Complex Problems Machine Learning in Embedded, Data-deprived Devices
Hans Olov Hellsten ^{Country SWE} Affiliation Halmstad University, Member of Royal Academy of War Sciences KKrVA IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Radar Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Signal Processing Methods for the Different Applications Antenna Theory and System Analysis Electromagnetics and Meter Wave Radar Scattering Theory
Gokhan Inalhan ^{Country GBR} Affiliation Cranfield University IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Artificial Intelligence Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Towards Trustworthy Autonomy: How AI Can Help Address Fundamental Learning and Adaptation Challenges
Carlos Insaurralde ^{Country GBR} Affiliation IEEE (SMIEEE), FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK) IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Avionics Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Ontological Decision-Making Support for Air Traffic Management Autonomous Model Analytics for Avionic Systems
Zak Kassas ^{Country USA} Affiliation Ohio State University IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) Avionics Systems Navigation Systems Space Systems Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	No GPS, No Problem: Exploiting Signals of Opportunity for Resilient and Accurate Autonomous Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments Ad Astra: Navigation with Megaconstellation LEO Satellites
Wolfgang Koch ^{Country DEU} Affiliation Fraunhofer FKIE IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Target Tracking Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Multistatic Exploration: Intro to Modern Passive Radar & Multistatic Tracking & Data Fusion Tracking & Sensor Data Fusion Ethically Aligned Data Fusion Systems AI for Aerospace and Electronic Systems: Technical Dimensions of Responsible Design Quantum Algorithms for Aerospace and Electronic Systems: Trends and Applications
Kathleen Kramer ^{Country USA} Affiliation University of San Diego IEEE Region Region 6 (Western U.S.) Cyber Security Navigation Systems Avionics Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Feature Object Extraction – Fusing Evidence, Not Rolling the Die Navigation: The Road to GPS & Getting Beyond It Navigation: Application Approaches and Advances from GPS/GNSS, Vulnerabilities, Security and Opportunities Evolving Cyber Systems in Avionics
Jian Li ^{Country USA} Affiliation University of Florida IEEE Region Region 3 (Southeastern U.S.) Radar Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Over a Century of Array Signal Processing Automotive MIMO Radar
Wei Liu ^{Country GBR} Affiliation Queen Mary University of London IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Radar Systems Glue Technologies for Space Systems Navigation Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Target Direction Finding and Localization with Phaseless Measurements Sensor Location Optimization for Effective and Robust Beamforming Design of Wideband Beamformers with Frequency Invariant Responses
Lorenzo Lo Monte ^{Country USA} Affiliation TTM Technologies IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Electronic Warfare Radar Systems Systems Engineering Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	History & Future of Radar & EW Know Your (Radar) Enemy! Sense and Avoid Radars
Uttam Kumar Majumder ^{Country USA} Affiliation The United States Air Force Research Laboratory IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Artificial Intelligence Radar Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Deep Learning for Radio Frequency Target Classification Machine Learning Approaches for Data Limited SAR Object Recognition Deep Learning Based Advanced SAR Automatic Target Recognition Algorithms Deep Learning for Radar Automatic Target Recognition: Past, Present, and Emerging Techniques Recent Research on Deep Learning Based Radar Automatic Target Recognition
Kumar Vijay Mishra ^{Country USA} Affiliation The University of Maryland, College Park IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) Radar Systems Artificial Intelligence Communications Electronic Warfare Target Tracking Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC): optimization & learning techniques, vehicular ISAC, distributed ISAC, mmWave and THz ISAC, full-duplex ISAC Deep learning for mmWave and THz beamforming applications Intelligent reflecting surfaces for radar and communications Sparse representation, and reconstruction in SAR Sparse Reconstruction in Co-Pulsing and Co-STAP FDA Radar
Avid Roman-Gonzalez ^{Country PER} Affiliation Business on Engineering and Technology S.A.C. (BE Tech) IEEE Region Region 9 (Latin America) Aerospace Systems Integration Engineering Artificial Intelligence Space Systems Systems Engineering 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Design and Simulation of Nanosatellites
Luke Rosenberg ^{Country AUS} Affiliation STERLaRLab, Lockheed Martin Australia IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Radar Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	New Concepts in Maritime Detection The Importance of Sea Clutter Modeling Simulation of Radar Sea Clutter 3D ISAR: Techniques and Applications
Giovanna Estefanía Ramírez ^{Country COL} Affiliation Colombian School of Engineering, Postgraduate School of the Colombian Air Force IEEE Region Region 9 (Latin America) Space Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	“A Day in Space”: Astronaut Training Aerospace Systems: Technology Based on Space Exploration Design and Application of Picosatellites
Roberto Sabatini ^{Country ARE} Affiliation Khalifa University of Science and Technology IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Avionics Systems Aerospace Systems Integration Engineering Artificial Intelligence Cyber Security Electronic Warfare Navigation Systems Space Systems Systems Engineering Target Tracking Systems Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Aerospace Cyber-Physical Systems Trusted Autonomous Aerospace Systems The Future of Air and Space Transport – Towards Multi-Domain Traffic Management The Future of Avionics Systems Cognitive Human-Machine Interfaces and Interactions for Aerospace and Defence Systems GNSS Augmentation Strategies for Urban Air Mobility and UAS Traffic Management Advances in Digital Avionics and Space Systems
Puneet Singla ^{Country USA} Affiliation Pennsylvania State University IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) Space Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	INFOrmation and Resource Management (INFORM) for Accurate Tracking of Resident Space Objects System Theory and Sparse Learning for Data Driven Modeling
Vince Socci ^{Country USA} Affiliation LHP Software IEEE Region Region 3 (Southeastern U.S.) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	How It Works: UAV Technology Overview How It’s Used: UAV Applications & Business Opportunities How It’s Managed: UAV Policies & Regulations A Course for New Drone Operators – UAV Technology, Regulations, and Applications
Hongbo Sun ^{Country AFG} Affiliation Institute for Infocomm Research, ASTAR IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Radar Systems* 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Passive Through-Wall Human Sensing with WiFi Countering the Drone’s Threat by Radar – Technical Challenges and Perspectives Radar Tomographic Imaging – Achieving High Resolution With Spatial Diversity Introduction to MIMO Radar Waveforms
Ruhai Wang ^{Country USA} Affiliation Lamar University IEEE Region Region 5 (Southwestern U.S.) Communications Space Systems 2023 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Transport Protocols for Space Internet Reliable Data Transmission in Moon-Earth Communications Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) for Deep Space Networks
Yuanxin Wu ^{Country CHN} Affiliation Shanghai Jiao Tong University IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Navigation Systems 2020 - 2024 Distinguished Lecturer	Inertial Navigation: Sensing & Computation into the Future Inertial Navigation Computation: History, Present and Beyond