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of Radio Science (URSI) 2020. In 2019 and 2020, the IEEE
Antennas and Propagation Society recognized him as an
Outstanding Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Antennas and
Propagation, and he was honored as the best reviewer for
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observation and
Remote Sensing in 2020. He is an associate editor of Journal of
Engineering and Microwaves, Antennas, and Propagation, both
by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and IEEE
Access. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and of URSI.
Fauzia Ahmad (fauzia.ahmad@temple.edu) received
her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1997. She is an associate professor
in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19122,
USA. Prior to joining Temple University in 2016, she was
a research professor and the director of the Radar Imaging
Lab at the Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova
University. She has more than 250 publications in
the areas of array and statistical signal processing, computational
imaging with applications in radar and ultrasonics,
compressive sensing , machine learning, radar signal processing,
and structural heath monitoring. She is a Fellow of
IEEE and of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation
Engineers (SPIE). She is the past chair of the IEEE Dennis
J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications
Committee and SPIE Compressive-Sensing Conference series.
She currently chairs the SPIE Big Data Conference series.
She is a member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel
Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society,
member of the Computational Imaging Technical Committee
of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and member
of the Electrical Cluster of the Franklin Institute Committee
on Science and the Arts. She also serves as an associate
editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging and IET
Radar, Sonar, & Navigation.
Moeness G. Amin (moeness.amin@villanova.edu)
received his Ph.D. degree in 1984 from the University of
Colorado, Boulder. Since 1985, he has been on the faculty
of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 19085,
USA, where he is now a professor and director of the Center
for Advanced Communications. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, the
Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), and the European
Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). He is
a recipient of the U.S. Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Advanced
Science and Technology, Alexander von Humboldt
Research Award, IET Achievement Medal, IEEE Warren D.
White Award for Excellence in Radar Engineering, IEEE
Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award,
NATO Scientific Achievement Award, EURASIP Technical
Achievement Award, and IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society. He has more than 850 journal and conference
publications in the areas of wireless communications,
time-frequency analysis, sensor array processing, satellite
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navigations, ultrasound imaging, and radar signal processing.
He is a recipient of 12 best paper awards. He is the editor
of three books from CRC Press: Through-the-Wall Radar
Imaging (2011), Compressive Sensing for Urban Radar (2014),
and Radar for Indoor Monitoring (2017). He serves on the editorial
board of Proceedings of the IEEE.
Traian Dogaru (traian.v.dogaru.civ@mail.mil) received
his degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic
University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, in 1990 and
his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA, in 1997
and 1999, respectively. He was a research associate with
Duke University, developing algorithms for electromagnetic
field modeling, between 1999 and 2001. He has been
with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland,
20783, USA, since 2001. His research interests include
radar signature modeling, computational electromagnetics,
signal processing, radar imaging and detection of concealed
targets, sensing through the wall, foliage penetration, and
ground-penetrating radar, as well as applying advanced
computational modeling techniques to the analysis of complex
sensing scenarios. He is a Member of IEEE.
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