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 2012 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Measurement Extraction for a Point Target From an Optical Sensor Optimal Identification of IMU Drift Models VLO Target Track Extractor for Radar and for Camera
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 Radar or Lidar What to Choose for Automotive Applications Human Health Aspects of Radar Operation
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) 2013 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Context-enhanced Information Fusion Techniques Deep Learning for Radio Frequency Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) Multispectral Image Fusion & Night Vision Colorization
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 Attacks on Internet of Things Sensor Systems for Inference Cyber Security of Sensor Systems: Augmenting Anomaly Detection for Sequence Estimation Sensor Networking for Detection: From Distributed Detection to Energy Savings, MIMO Radar and Image Fusion
Arik Brown ^{Country USA} Affiliation Northrop Grumman IEEE Region Region 2 (Eastern U.S.) Electronic Warfare Radar Systems Space Systems Systems Engineering 2025 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Active Electronically Scanned Arrays (AESA) Architectures 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	Multiple-Hypothesis Tracking (MHT) Distributed MHT and Extensions Tracking Performance Limits
Mark E. Davis Affiliation Independent Consultant IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Radar Systems 2012 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Ultra Wideband Surveillance Radar (2024) Foliage Penetration Radar (2024)
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 2014 - 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 (2025)
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 (2025) 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 CAN} Affiliation École de Technologie Supérieure Memberships AESS IEEE Region Region 7 (Canada) 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 Quantum Computing and Data Fusion An Introduction to Track-to-Track Fusion and the Distributed Kalman Filter (2025) An Introduction to State Estimation with Discrete Densities Using Tensor Decompositions
Maria Sabrina Greco ^{Country ITA} Affiliation University of Pisa IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Radar Systems 2014 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Advanced Techniques of Radar Detection in Non-Gaussian Background Cognitive Radar (2025) 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 C. Insaurralde ^{Country GBR} Affiliation IEEE (SMIEEE), FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK) IEEE Region Region 8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East) Aerospace Systems Integration Engineering Avionics Systems Systems Engineering 2023 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Autonomous Model Analytics for Avionic Systems Distributed Control System for Aircraft Fuel Management – Part I Distributed Control System for Aircraft Fuel Management – Part II
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	Ad Astra: Navigation with Megaconstellation LEO Satellites No GPS, No Problem: Exploiting Signals of Opportunity for Resilient and Accurate Autonomous Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments (2025)
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	Introduction to Radar and Its Civilian Applications: From Radar Principles to Considering the Application Needs for Signal Processing and Classification Radar in Assisted Living: An Overview Radar in Dairy Farming: An Overview
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 (2025)
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	Multi-Target Location and Doppler Estimation in Bi-static/Multi-static Automotive Radar Applications 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 2016 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	History & Future of Radar Democratizing Air-to-Air Radars: Sense and Avoid
Uttam Kumar Majumder Personal Gender Pronouns (he/him) ^{Country USA} Affiliation The United States Department of Defense IEEE Region Region 1 (Northeastern U.S.) Artificial Intelligence Radar Systems 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Adversarial Machine Learning for Radar Deep Learning Based RF Target Classification: Recent Results and Technical Challenges Recent Research on Deep Learning Based Radar Automatic Target Recognition (2025)
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 Memberships AESS 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 Co-Pulsing FDA Radar 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 & Technologies IEEE Region Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) Radar Systems 2020 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	3D ISAR: Techniques and Applications New Concepts in Maritime Detection (2025) Performance Prediction Modelling for Maritime Radar
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 2021 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	Design Guidelines for Space Sustainability
Giovanna Estefanía Ramírez Ruiz ^{Country COL} Affiliation Scientific Corporation of the Aerospace Sector (COCSA) Memberships AESS 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 Cognitive Human-Machine Interfaces and Interactions for Aerospace and Defence 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 Memberships AESS IEEE Region Region 3 (Southeastern U.S.) Aerospace Systems Integration Engineering Artificial Intelligence Avionics Systems Navigation Systems Space Systems Systems Engineering Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 2019 - 2026 Distinguished Lecturer	An Introduction to UAV Technology, Applications and Regulations Applying Artificial Intelligence to Manage Cost in Space Operations
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