Igal Bilik
Igal Bilik
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Dr. Igal Bilik received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, in 1997, 2003, and 2006, respectively. During 2006–2008, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC. During 2008-2011, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. During 2011-2019, he was a Staff Researcher at GM Advanced Technical Center, Israel, leading automotive radar technology development. Between 2019 and 2020, he led Smart Sensing and Vision Group at GM R&D, where he was responsible for developing state-of-art automotive radar, lidar, and computer vision technologies. Since Oct. 2020, Dr. Bilik has been an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Since 2020, he has been a member of the IEEE AESS Radar Systems Panel and Chair of the Civilian Radar Committee. Dr. Bilik is an Acting Officer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Chapter, Israel, and chairs the Autonomous and Connected Transportation Committee, Israeli Center for Smart Mobility Research. Dr. Bilik did Automotive Radar Tutorials in IEEE Radar Conferences 2020-2021, IEEE SAM Workshop 2022, Autosense 2022, and IEEE Radar Conference Summer School. He co-Chaired Automotive Radar Special Session in IEEE SAM, 2022, Co-chaired Automotive Radar Sessions at the IEEE Radar Conferences 2015- 2022, and chaired the “Automotive Vehicles Workshop” at The Prime Minister Smart Mobility Summit, 2021. Dr. Bilik has more than 240 patent inventions, authored more than 90 peer-reviewed academic publications, received the Best Student Paper Awards at IEEE RADAR 2005 and IEEE RADAR 2006 Conferences, Student Paper Award in the 2006 IEEE 24th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, and the GM Product Excellence Recognition in 2017. Dr. Bilik is an Associate Editor in the IEEE Transactions of Aerospace Systems, IEEE Transactions on Radars, and IEEE Sensors. He is a Guest Associate Editor in IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, “Automotive Radar Processing,” 2020, co-organizing IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems Special Section on “Deep Learning for Radar Applications,” 08/2022 and Special Section on “Automotive Imaging and Super-Resolution Radar Systems”, 10/2022.