Apr
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Date: 08-April-2026
Time: 9:00 AM ET (New York Time)
Presenter: Dr. M. R. Bhavani Shankar
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The ASI Webinar Series is an event initiated by the Autonomous System Initiative (ASI) of the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) Society. The goal is to offer the SP community with free webinars looking into the future of autonomous systems. These monthly webinars are hosted on Zoom, with recordings made available in the IEEE ASI’s YouTube channel following the live events.
Abstract
Radar Everywhere: Evolving Theory, Algorithms, and Applications in a Connected World
Radar has evolved from being niche to ubiquitous. The application and usage of this technology has significantly expanded over the recent years, proliferating into multiple modes of transportation, human centric applications like healthcare, robotics among others. These has been made possible by exploitation of large bandwidths, new architectures, model-based and data-driven algorithms and initiatives towards benefitting from other RF services. In the current application canvas, radar has a unique position – offering low complexity, robust and privacy preserving solutions with an increasing trend towards achievable angular resolution. This talk summarizes the emerging trends in radar from multiple perspectives including theory, algorithms, and applications relevant to the ASI.
Biography
M. R. Bhavani Shankar received the M.E. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical communication engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2000 and 2007 respectively. He was a Post Doc at the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, Signal Processing Lab, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden from 2007 to September 2009.
He is currently a Senior Research Scientist/ Assistant Professor at SnT leading the Radar Signal Processing activitieswhere he joined SnT in October 2009 as a Research Associate. He was with Beceem Communications, Bangalore from 2006 to 2007 as a Staff Design Engineer working on Physical Layer algorithms for WiMAX compliant chipsets. He was a visiting student at the Communication Theory Group, ETH Zurich, headed by Prof. Helmut Bölcskei during 2004. Prior to joining Ph. D, he worked on Audio Coding algorithms in Sasken Communications, Bangalore as a Design Engineer from 2000 to 2001.
Dr. Shankar is currently the Chair of the IEEE Benelux joint chapter on communications and vehicular technology, serves as associate editor for IEEE TAES and is a member of the IEEE SPS SAM Technical Committee. He was a co-recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Contributions to Satellite Communications Award, from the Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society and co-author of the paper that received Special Mention for the Barry Carlton best paper award by IEEE TAES in 2023.
