2025 AESS Award Recipients
Congratulations to all AESS Award Recipients on these remarkable achievements. Thank you for your hard work, dedication, and contributions to the AESS and Radar communities!
Kamal Sarabandi - For sustained contributions to advancing radar science and technology for remote sensing and automotive and through-the-wall applications.
As it stands today, the IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. Congratulations to the AESS members who were elevated to IEEE Fellow!
Paolo Braca - for contributions to advancements in networked surveillance systems.
Krzysztof Kulpa - for contributions to passive radar
Donald B. Reid - for development of multiple hypothesis tracking algorithm for difficult multiple target tracking problems with high target density, low detection, and high clutter
IEEE AESS Judith A. Resnik Space Award
Dr. Ryan Park - for outstanding contributions to the study of gravity and planetary science
Shannon David Blunt - for fundamental and practical contributions to radar waveform design for advanced radar systems
Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award
Patrick McCormick - For advancements in waveform design and algorithms for radar and communications spectrum sharing
Joseph R Guerci, Sandeep Gogineni, Paul Techau, Jameson Bergin, David Kirk, John Don Carlos, Brian Watson - For contributions to high fidelity RF modeling and simulation
Robert T. Hill Best Dissertation Award
Christian Curtis Jones - In recognition of the Ph.D. dissertation Robust and Efficient Structure-Based Radar Receive Processing
IEEE Michael C. Wicks Radar Student Travel Grant
- Nandhini Kalyan - For the paper "Bayesian non-parametric active learning for information asymmetric ECCM in cognitive radar electronic warfare"
- Jonathan Monsalve - For the paper “CLuP-Based Dual-Deconvolution in Automotive ISAC Scenarios”
- Ali Samimi Fard - For the paper "Fall Detection in Ambient-Assisted Living Environments using FMCW Radars and Deep Learning"
- Gabriel Valenti - For the paper “Covariance Matrix Reconstruction based on regularized denoising autoencoders for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation”
- Hussam Hanoini - For the paper “Matrix-based Approach for Metasurface Radar Imaging Leveraging Multiple Reflections in Reverberating Environments”
- Alan Bannon - For the paper “Enabling low-cost ultra-high-framerate WiFi-networked UWB radar systems for indoor monitoring of physiology and activity”
Harry Rowe Mimno Award
Passive Radar: Past, Present, and Future Challenges
Fabiola Colone; Francesca Filippini; Debora Pastina
M. Barry Carlton Award
"A Reinforcement Learning Based Approach for Multitarget Detection in Massive MIMO Radar"
Alaa Alameer Ahmad, Aya Mostafa Ibrahim Ahmad, Aydin Sezgin, Fulvio Gini, Maria Sabrina Greco, Stefano Fortunati
IEEE AESS Technical Panel of the Year Award
Avionics Systems Panel, chaired by Roberto Sabatini
AESS Student Branch Chapter of the Year Award
Gogte Institute of Technology, chaired by Aital Shaikh
IEEE AESS Engineering Scholarship
Yaashica Sakthivel - Undergraduate
CA ABISHEK - Undergraduate
Salman Liaquat - Graduate