Current Distinguished Lectures

Elias Aboutanios ^{Country AUS} Affiliation The University of New South Wales IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Radar Systems 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Direction-Of-Arrival Estimation: Approaches and Recent Advances Dual Function Radar Communications Using Index Modulation Target Detection in Heterogeneous Environments
Akram Al-Hourani ^{Country AUS} Affiliation RMIT University IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Communications Radar Systems Space Systems 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Mega Satellite Constellations for Communication: Stochastic Geometry Approaches for Modeling and Performance Analysis Mega Satellite Constellations for Communication and Sensing: Challenges and Opportunities
Yaakov Bar-Shalom ^{Country USA} Affiliation University of Connecticut IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Target Tracking Systems 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Measurement Extraction for a Point Target From an Optical Sensor Optimal Identification of IMU Drift Models Target Tracking and Data Fusion: How to Get the Most Out of Your Sensors
Igal Bilik ^{Country ISR} Affiliation Ben Gurion University of the Negev Memberships AESS , ComSoc , SPS , VTS IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Radar Systems 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Automotive Radars Principles In-cabin Sensing Radar or Lidar What to Choose for Automotive Applications Human Health Aspects of Radar Operation Automotive Radar Operation in Multipath and NLOS Urban Scenarios
W. Dale Blair ^{Country USA} Affiliation Georgia Tech Research Institute IEEE Region Region 3 (Southeastern U.S.) Radar Systems Systems Engineering Target Tracking Systems 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Engineering in the Real World Systematic Filter Design for Tracking Maneuvering Targets Tracking Maneuvering Targets in a World of Netted Sensors (2022)
Erik P. Blasch ^{Country USA} Affiliation US Air Force Research Lab IEEE Region Region 7 (Canada) 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Multispectral Image Fusion & Night Vision Colorization Overview of High-Level Information Fusion Theory, Models, & Representations
Rick S. Blum ^{Country USA} Affiliation ECE Dept., Lehigh University Memberships AESS IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) Artificial Intelligence Communications Cyber Security Radar Systems Target Tracking Systems 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Cyber Security of Sensor Systems: Augmenting Anomaly Detection for Sequence Estimation Algorithms and Analysis for Optimizing the Tracking Performance of Cyber Attacked Sensor-Equipped Connected Vehicle Networks
Arik Brown ^{Country USA} Affiliation Northrop Grumman IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Active Electronically Scanned Arrays (AESA) Architectures AESA Fundamental Theory Introduction to Active Electronically Scanned Arrays (AESAs) Overview of Key AESA Enablers: Array Elements, Transmit/Receive Modules and Beamforming
Stefano Coraluppi ^{Country USA} Affiliation Systems & Technology Research Memberships AESS IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Target Tracking Systems 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Distributed MHT and Extensions Multiple-Hypothesis Tracking (MHT)
Mark E. Davis Affiliation Independent Consultant IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Radar Systems 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Ultra Wide Band Surveillance Radar (2023) Foliage Penetration Radar (2021)
Warren du Plessis ^{Country ZAF} Affiliation University of Pretoria Memberships APS IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Electronic Warfare 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Cognitive Electronic Warfare (EW) as a Training Aid Cross-eye jamming – Correcting Misconceptions EW in Academia – Logical Fallacy or Self-evident?
Alfonso Farina ^{Country ITA} Affiliation Retired IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Electronic Warfare Radar Systems Target Tracking Systems 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Green Radar: A Review and Perspectives for Signal and Data Processing of Passive Coherent Location Radar (PCLR) Radar Adaptivity: Antenna Based Signal Processing Techniques The Role of Multitarget Tracking Radar in Surveillance Systems
Giancarmine Fasano ^{Country ITA} Affiliation University of Naples “Federico II” IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Avionics Systems Navigation Systems Space Systems Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Advances in Surveillance and Detect and Avoid for Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Advanced Air Mobility Principles and Cooperative Techniques for Multi-drone Systems and Swarms
Sandeep Gogineni ^{Country USA} Affiliation Information Systems Laboratories Inc. Memberships AESS IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	High Fidelity RF Clutter Modeling and Simulation
Jesus Gonzalez-Llorente ^{Country COL} Affiliation Nihon University / Independent Consultant Memberships AESS IEEE Region Region 9 (Latin America) Aerospace Systems Integration Engineering Avionics Systems Space Systems Systems Engineering 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Design of Efficient Electrical Power Systems for Small Spacecraft Space nanogrids: Bringing rapid development, low-cost and less failure to space missions Modern small satellites and new design methodologies as enablers of capacity-building on developing countries
Felix Govaers ^{Country DEU} Affiliation Fraunhofer Institute for Communication IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Target Tracking Systems 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	An Introduction to Non-linear State Estimation and Target Tracking Based on Tensor Decompositions An Introduction to State Estimation with Discrete Densities Using Tensor Decompositions An Introduction to Quantum Computing and Data Fusion An Introduction to Track-to-Track Fusion and the Distributed Kalman Filter Distributed Sequential Likelihood Ratio Testing for Track Existence Decisions Multi Sensor Fusion in Distributed Systems
Maria Sabrina Greco ^{Country ITA} Affiliation University of Pisa IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Radar Systems 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Advanced Techniques of Radar Detection in Non-Gaussian Background Cognitive Radar Sea & Land Clutter Statistical Analysis & Modeling
Karen Haigh ^{Country USA} Affiliation Haskill Consulting IEEE Region Region 4 (Central U.S.) Artificial Intelligence Communications Electronic Warfare Radar Systems 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Cognitive EW: Assuring In-Mission Learning for EW Cognitive EW: Data Requirements for AI Cognitive RF Systems: Using AI to Solve Complex Problems
Gokhan Inalhan ^{Country GBR} Affiliation Cranfield University IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Artificial Intelligence Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	AI-driven Cognitive Intelligence for Defense Applications Enabling Sustainable Aviation Through Advanced Data Analytics & AI Towards Trustworthy Autonomy: How AI Can Help Address Fundamental Learning and Adaptation Challenges
Carlos Insaurralde ^{Country GBR} Affiliation IEEE (SMIEEE), FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK) IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Avionics Systems 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Ontological Decision-Making Support for Air Traffic Management Autonomous Model Analytics for Avionic Systems
Zak Kassas ^{Country USA} Affiliation Ohio State University IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) Avionics Systems Navigation Systems Space Systems Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	No GPS, No Problem: Exploiting Signals of Opportunity for Resilient and Accurate Autonomous Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments Ad Astra: Navigation with Megaconstellation LEO Satellites
Julien Le Kernec Personal Gender Pronouns (he/him) ^{Country GBR} Affiliation University of Glasgow Memberships AESS IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Radar Systems 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Radar in Assisted Living: An Overview Radar in Dairy Farming: An Overview Introduction to Radar and Its Civilian Applications: From Radar Principles to Considering the Application Needs for Signal Processing and Classification
Jian Li ^{Country USA} Affiliation University of Florida IEEE Region Region 3 (Southeastern U.S.) Radar Systems 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Automotive MIMO Radar Over a Century of Array Signal Processing
Wei Liu ^{Country HKG} Affiliation The Hong Kong Polytechnic University IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Glue Technologies for Space Systems Navigation Systems Radar Systems 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Design of Wideband Beamformers with Frequency Invariant Responses Sensor Location Optimization for Effective and Robust Beamforming Target Direction Finding and Localization with Phaseless Measurements
Patrizia Livreri ^{Country ITA} Affiliation Department of Engineering, University of Palermo Memberships AESS IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Towards a Long-range Microwave Quantum Radar
Lorenzo Lo Monte ^{Country USA} Affiliation TTM Technologies IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Electronic Warfare Radar Systems Systems Engineering Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	History & Future of Radar & EW Sense and Avoid Radars
Uttam Kumar Majumder ^{Country USA} Affiliation The United States Air Force Research Laboratory IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Artificial Intelligence Radar Systems 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Deep Learning Based RF Target Classification: Recent Results and Technical Challenges Deep Learning Based Advanced SAR Automatic Target Recognition Algorithms Deep Learning for Radar Automatic Target Recognition: Past, Present, and Emerging Techniques Machine Learning Approaches for Data Limited SAR Object Recognition Recent Research on Deep Learning Based Radar Automatic Target Recognition
Mahendra Mallick ^{Country USA} Affiliation Independent Consultant Memberships AESS IEEE Region Region 6 (Western U.S.) Radar Systems Space Systems Target Tracking Systems 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Angle-Only Tracking in Three Dimensions
Kumar Vijay Mishra ^{Country USA} Affiliation The University of Maryland, College Park IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) Artificial Intelligence Communications Cyber Security Electronic Warfare Radar Systems Target Tracking Systems Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Deep learning for mmWave and THz beamforming applications Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC): optimization & learning techniques, vehicular ISAC, distributed ISAC, mmWave and THz ISAC, full-duplex ISAC, co-pulsing FDA, dual-blind deconvolution, inverse cognition Intelligent reflecting surfaces for radar and communications
Puneet Kumar Mishra ^{Country IND} Affiliation Indian Space Research Organization IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	How to Configure, Design, Assemble, Test, Launch, and Operate a Satellite? RF Characterization of Next Generation Satellites Spacecraft Magnetic Cleanliness Requirements for Science and Space Explorations Missions
Avid Roman-Gonzalez ^{Country PER} Affiliation Universidad Nacional Tecnológica de Lima Sur (UNTELS) IEEE Region Region 9 (Latin America) Aerospace Systems Integration Engineering Artificial Intelligence Space Systems Systems Engineering 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Design and Simulation of Nanosatellites Random Motion Machine for the Simulation of Microgravity Conditions Space Technology in Developing Countries
Luke Rosenberg ^{Country AUS} Affiliation Lockheed Martin Australia, Advanced Systems & Technology IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Radar Systems 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	3D ISAR: Techniques and Applications New Concepts in Maritime Detection Performance Prediction Modelling for Maritime Radar Simulation of Radar Sea Clutter The Importance of Sea Clutter Modeling
Marina Ruggieri ^{Country ITA} Affiliation University of Roma “Tor Vergata” IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Artificial Intelligence Communications Glue Technologies for Space Systems Space Systems 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Design Guidelines for Space Sustainability
Giovanna Estefanía Ramírez Ruiz ^{Country COL} Affiliation Colombian School of Engineering, Postgraduate School of the Colombian Air Force IEEE Region Region 9 (Latin America) Space Systems 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	“A Day in Space”: Astronaut Training Aerospace Systems: Technology Based on Space Exploration Design and Application of Picosatellites
Roberto Sabatini ^{Country ARE} Affiliation Khalifa University of Science and Technology (UAE, Region 8) and RMIT University (Australia, Region 10) IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Aerospace Systems Integration Engineering Artificial Intelligence Avionics Systems Cyber Security Navigation Systems Space Systems Systems Engineering Target Tracking Systems Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Advances in Digital Avionics and Space Systems Aerospace Cyber-Physical Systems Cognitive Human-Machine Interfaces and Interactions for Aerospace and Defence Systems GNSS Augmentation Strategies for Urban Air Mobility and UAS Traffic Management The Future of Air and Space Transport – Towards Multi-Domain Traffic Management The Future of Avionics Systems Trusted Autonomous Aerospace Systems Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research and Innovation Challenges
Puneet Singla ^{Country USA} Affiliation Pennsylvania State University IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) Space Systems 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	INFOrmation and Resource Management (INFORM) for Accurate Tracking of Resident Space Objects System Theory and Sparse Learning for Data Driven Modeling
Vince Socci ^{Country USA} Affiliation On Target Motion IEEE Region Region 3 (Southeastern U.S.) Aerospace Systems Integration Engineering Artificial Intelligence Avionics Systems Navigation Systems Space Systems Systems Engineering Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	How It Works: UAV Technology Overview How It’s Used: UAV Applications & Business Opportunities How It’s Managed: UAV Policies & Regulations A Course for New Drone Operators – UAV Technology, Regulations, and Applications
Hongbo Sun ^{Country SGP} Affiliation Institute for Infocomm Research, ASTAR IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Radar Systems* 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Countering the Drone’s Threat by Radar – Technical Challenges and Perspectives Introduction to MIMO Radar Waveforms Passive Through-Wall Human Sensing with WiFi
Ruhai Wang ^{Country USA} Affiliation Lamar University IEEE Region Region 5 (Southwestern U.S.) Communications Space Systems 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Transport Protocols for Space Internet Reliable Data Transmission in Moon-Earth Communications Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) for Deep Space Networks
Xiangrong Wang ^{Country CHN} Affiliation Beihang University Memberships AESS , SPS IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Cognitive Automotive Sensing Assisted by Joint Radar and Communications Weak Target Detection with Integrated Multi-user Communications via Reinforcement Learning