“Signal Processing for Integrated Sensing and Communications“

Monday, February 17, 2025 | 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST

Location: EC 3327, 10555 W Flagler St, Miami, FL 33174

Zoom – Meeting ID: 412 511 0852| Passcode: H2tGgg

Theme of session: In this talk, we focus on recent developments in integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), exploring coexistence across ISAC, collaborative communications, and sensing with interference. Optimization of resources for both sensing and wireless communications is key to fully realizing coexistence. The talk highlights how synergies between sensing and communications drive advancements in signal processing and information theory. While colocated ISAC systems have been widely studied, distributed systems remain less explored. It covers emerging scenarios in collaborative and distributed ISAC, especially at mm-Wave and THz frequencies, and in dynamic vehicular environments benefiting from information exchange. The tutorial discusses architectures and methodologies for distributed co-existence and co-design, including sensor fusion and heterogeneously distributed radar and communications. It also touches on recent developments like intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS), 5G,passive IoT, and ISAC secrecy rate optimization, aiming to engage radar, communications, and signal processing communities in this emerging field.

Dr. Kumar Vijay Mishra (S’08-M’15-SM’18) holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in mathematics from The University of Iowa (2015), an M.S. in electrical engineering from Colorado State University(2012), and a B.Tech. summa cum laude in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India (2003). He is a Senior Fellow at the U.S. DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Research Scientist at the University of Maryland under the ARL-ArtIAMAS program, Technical Adviser to automotive radar startup Hertz well and imaging radar startup Aura Intelligent Systems, and honorary Research Fellow at the University of Luxembourg. Previously, he held research appointments at LRDE, DRDO, IIHR, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Qualcomm, and Technion.

Dr. Mishra is the Distinguished Lecturer of multiple IEEE societies and the recipient of numerous awards, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award (2024), IEEE AESS M. Barry Carlton Award Special Mention (2023), and IET Premium Best Paper Prize (2021), among others. He has been involved in technical committees, including IEEE SPS, IEEE AESS Radar Systems Panel, and IEEE SPS Synthetic Apertures Technical Working Group, and has held editorial roles for IEEE journals.