Current Students

• David Tucker, radar signal processing
• Kaiying Xie, machine learning (D Mixon, Mathematics, primary advisor)
• Syed Murtaza Arshad (co-advised with R Ahmad)
• Chong Chen (co-advised with R Ahmad)
• Joseph Bill (BS-ECE, 2024)

Past PhD Students

(Thesis and dissertation documents available by searching for author online at the OSU library.)

• Shen Zhao, Stanford University post-doctoral fellow, Palo Alto, CA.
  PhD22, “K-space Reconstruction and Velocity Estimation in Magnetic Resonance Imaging.”
• Azer Shikhaliev, Lockheed Martin, Liverpool, NY (formerly NRC post-doctoral fellow, Dayton, Ohio).

PhD21, “Techniques for Adaptive Signal Detection.”

• Adam Rich. Battelle, Columbus, Ohio
  PhD17, “Bayesian Models for Practical Flow Imaging Using Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging.”
• Michael Riedl. Battelle, Columbus, Ohio (formerly at MIT Lincoln Labs)
  PhD16, “New Approaches to Ground Moving Target Indicator Radar.”
• Derya Gol Gungor. Siemens Healthineers, San Francisco, California. (formerly at EchoLabs)
  PhD14, "Subspace Techniques for Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging.''
• Subhojit Som, Data Scientist, Azure Machine Learning, Seattle, Washington
  PhD10, "Sparse Reconstruction and Applications to Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Imaging.''
• Kerry Dungan, Senior Research Engineer, Wright State Research Institute, Dayton, Ohio.
  PhD10, "Feature-based Vehicle Classification in Wide-angle Synthetic Aperture Radar.''
• Ravi Rajagopal, Broadcom, Irvine, California.
  PhD03, "An Algebraic View of Multidimensional Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Finite Impulse Response Equalizers."
• Ashutosh Sabharwal, Professor & Chair, Rice University, Houston, Texas. IEEE Fellow.
  PhD99, "Model Based Signal Processing for Communications and Radar."
• Emre Ertin, Associate Professor, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
  PhD99, "Polarimetric Processing and Sequential Detection for Automatic Target Recognition Systems."
• Timothy R. Miller, VP-Engineering, Applied Signals Intelligence Inc., Vienna, Virginia.
  PhD99, "Detection, Estimation, and Discrimination of Frequency Diverse Targets in Ultra-Wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar Data."
• Michael J. Gerry, President and CEO, Air Traffic Systems Products, SAAB Sensis Corporation, East Syracuse, New York.
  PhD97, "Two-Dimensional Inverse Scattering Based on the GTD Model."
• Da-Ming Chiang, Engineering Manager, Intel, San Jose, California.
  PhD96, "Parametric Signal Processing Techniques for Model Mismatch and Mixed Parameter Estimation."
• Daniel F. Stewart, Principal Engineer, Qualcomm, Raleigh-Durham, NC (S.C. Ahalt, co-advisor)
  PhD94, "Minimal Time-Frequency Localization Techniques and their Application to Image Compression."

Past MS Research Students

• Zhizhong Ma, Cambricon, Beijing.

MS22, “Bi-directional Sampling in Partial Fourier Reconstruction,”

• Abdullahi Inshaar, JHU Applied Research Laboratories, Baltimore, Maryland.
  MS20, “Speckle Reduction in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar”
• Seyedfarhad Mirkazemi, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
  MS19, “Evaluation of a Single-frequency Satellite Navigation Software Receiver”
• Mary Lenk, UT Applied Research Laboratories, Austin, Texas.
  MS18, "Respiratory Motion Tracking in Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Pilot Tone Technology"
• Culver McWhirter, Olive, Columbus, Ohio.
  MS18, "SqueezeFit: Label-aware dimensionality reduction by semidefinite programming" (co-advised with D. Mixon)
• Shen Zhao, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
  MS17, "Chinese Remainder Theorem for Phase Unwrapping, with application to Magnetic Resonance Flow Imaging" (co-advised with R. Ahmad).
• Frank Golub, Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan.
  MS13, "An Estimation Technique for Spin Echo Electron Paramagnetic Resonance." (co-advised with R. Ahmad).
• Rebekah Farrar, LISNR, Mason, Ohio.
  MS13, "Bayesian Inference via Low-Dimensional Manifolds for Attributed Data Points." (co-advised with Emre Ertin).
• Jason Palmer, Percolate, Inc. Denver, Colorado.
  MS12, "Dual-scan acquisition for accelerated continuous-wave EPR oximetry." (co-advised with R. Ahmad).
• Taylor Williams, Knowles Foundation Teaching Fellow, Beamer HS, Federal Way, Washington @MrWilliamsSTEM
  MS12, "Compressive Sensing for Tomographic Echo Imaging in Two Dimensions.''
• Christine Bryant, Matrix Research, Inc., Dayton, Ohio.
  MS10, "Multiple-Input Single-Output Synthetic Aperture Radar and Space-Time Adaptive Processing,'' (co-advised with E. Ertin).
• Amrita Ghosh, Amazon, Seattle, Washington.
  MS10, "Optimum Waveform Scheduling with Software Defined Radar for Tracking Applications,'' (co-advised with E. Ertin).
• Stephen Yen, Battelle Memorial Research Institute, Columbus, Ohio.
  MS07, "Parametric estimation using electron paramagnetic resonance spectral models of over-modulated Lorentzian absorption and dispersion harmonics."
• Samir Sharma, Canon Medical Research USA, Mayfield, Ohio.
  MS07, "Three Dimensional Parameter Estimation from Sparse, Multi-pass Synthetic Aperture Radar."
• Linda Moore, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio.
  MS06, "Three-Dimensional Resolution for Circular Synthetic Aperture."
• Subhojit Som, Data Scientist, Azure Machine Learning, Seattle, Washington.
  MS06, "Parametric Approach to Spectral-Spatial Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Imaging."
• Petru Cociorva, Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, Washington.
  MS06, "Preconditioners for Sparse Linear Inversion."
• A. Tansu Demirbilek, Risk Manager, North Asset Management, London, England.
  MS02, "Three Dimensional Estimation of Scattering Centers from Magnitude Radar Images."
• Oguz Demirci, Senior Research Engineer, Sony, California.
  MS02, "Parametric Modeling of Polarized Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery."
• Anurag Jain, Epic Systems, Madison, Wisconsin.
  MS01, "On the Design of Wideband Arrays."
• Jawaharlal Tangudu, Texas Instruments, India.
  MS00, "Back Projection Algorithms for Ultra Wideband Radar Imaging."
• Ravikiran Rajagopal, Broadcom, Irvine, California.
  MS00, "Exact FIR Inverses of FIR Filters."
• Brian Rigling, Professor & Dean of Engineering, Wright State University, Fairborn, Ohio. IEEE Fellow.
  MS00, ``Physics, Fisher and Phase: Information Content in SAR Images.''
• Michael Geile, VP Advanced Waveforms, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  MS96, "Investigation of Non-Parametric Techniques for Resolving Localized Point Scatterers from Radar Returns."
• Harvey Zien, Principal Engineer, Broadcom, San Diego, California (R.L. Moses, co-advisor).
  MS95, "Clutter Statistics and Detection of Targets in Ultra-Wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery."
• Ashutosh Sabharwal, Professor, Rice University, Houston, Texas. IEEE Fellow.
  MS95, "Constrained Signal Reconstruction."
• Timothy R. Miller, Chief Technical Officer, Applied Signals Intelligence Inc., Vienna, Virginia.
  MS94, "Radio Frequency Interference Suppression for Foliage Penetrating Radar Imaging."
• Chung-Chi Li, ITRI, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
  MS93, "Electrocardiogram Signal Preprocessing for Noninvasive Diagnosis of Arrhythmia Vulnerability."
• Szi-Wen Chen, Assistant Professor, Dept Elect Engineering, Chang Gung University, Tao Yuan, Taiwan
  MS93, "Prony Modeling for Signal-Averaged Electrocardiogram Analysis."
• Da-Ming Chiang, Engineering Manager, Intel, California.
  MS92, "Non-Redundant Channel Coding for Vector Quantization."

Senior Honors Theses

• Shiqi Yang.
  BS20, “Image Processing for Synthetic Aperture Radar System on Light-weight Drone.”
• Jingong Huang.
  BS18, “Fast Back-projection Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging System with a Lightweight Unmanned Aircraft System.”
• Sergei Preobrazhensky.
  BS12, “Optimizing Acoustic Array Beamforming to Aid a Speech Recognition System.”
• Taylor Williams.
  BS11, “SONAR Imaging using Compressive Sensing.”
• Danish Siddiqui.
  BS11, “Comparison of Filtered Back-projections and Fast Factorized Back-projection.”
• Gerardo Balderas. (J. Ash, co-advisor)
  BS11, “Passive Time Synchronization in Sensor Networks using Opportunistic FM Radio Signals.”
• Sean Winfree. (Ash, co-advisor)
  BS07, “Angle of Arrival Estimation using Received Signal Strength with Directional Antennas.”
• Albert Joon-Soo Byun.
  BS05, “Analog Signal Conditioning Design for a Wireless Data Acquisition Device.”
• Abdul Rahman Kalash. (J. Ash, co-advisor)
  BS05, “Design and Implementation of Network Localization Service using Angel-Indexed Signal Strength Measurements.”

Post-doctoral Researchers

· Rizwan Ahmad. Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, OSU [google scholar]

· Joshua Ash. Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Wright State University [google scholar]

Academic Genealogy