Alfonso Farina

Alfonso  Farina  (M’95–SM’98–F’00) received the doctor degree in electronic engineering  from  Rome  University,  Italy,  in  1973.  In  1974 he joined Selenia,  now  SELEX  Sistemi  Integrati, where he is a Manager since 1988.  Currently  he is Director of Engineering of Large Systems Business Unit. In his   professional   life,  he  has  provided  technical  contributions  to detection,  signal,  data,  image  processing and fusion for the main radar systems  conceived, designed, and developed in the Company. He has provided leadership  in  many  projects—also conducted in the international arena—in surveillance  for  ground and naval applications, in airborne early warning and  in  imaging  radar.  From  1979 to 1985 he has been professor of radar techniques  at the University of Naples. He is the author of 500 papers and of  books:  Radar Data Processing (vol. 1 and 2) (translated in Russian and Chinese),   Researches  Studies  Press  (UK),  John  Wiley  &  Sons  (USA), 1985–1986;  Optimized Radar Processors, P. Peregrinus Ltd. London, UK,1987; Antenna Based Signal Processing Techniques for Radar Systems, Artech House, USA,  1992.  He  wrote  the chapter “ECCM Techniques” in the Radar Handbook (2nd ed., 1990, and 3rd ed., 2008), edited by Dr. M. I. Skolnik. In 1987 he received  the  Radar  Systems  Panel  Award of IEEE AESS for development of radar  data  processing  techniques. He is the corecipient of the following best paper awards: entitled to B. Carlton of the IEEE Trans on AES for 2001 and  2003  and also of the International Conference on Fusion  2005. He has been  the  team  leader  that won the 2004 First Prize Award for Innovation Technology  of  Finmeccanica, Italy. This award context – set for the first time  in  2004  -  has seen the submission of more than 320 projects. He is Fellow  of  IEEE, IET, and EURASIP. He is international fellow of the Royal Academy  of  Engineering, U.K.; this fellowship was presented to him by HRH Prince  Philip,  the Duke of Edinburgh. He has been the General Chairman of the  IEEE  Radar  Conference  2008,  Rome,  May 26–30, 2008. Alfonso is the recipient  of  2010 IEEE Dennis J. Picard Gold Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications.