The Center pursues a portfolio of graduate student research projects.  The Center’s advisory board from industry and government labs solicits, reviews and evaluates research topics at the Center’s semi-annual meetings. 

Currently Active

• “Structured covariance matrix estimation with STAP applications” Azer Shikhaliev (mentor: Lee Potter), OSU
• "Generative Models with Visual Attention for Target Tracking and Re-acquisition" Michael Karnes (mentor: Alper Yilmaz), OSU
• “Deep Learning For Cognitive Radar” Peter John-Baptiste (mentor: Graeme Smith), OSU
• “Polarimetric Denoising in Reduced Aperture SAR Imaging” David Tucker (mentor: Lee Potter), OSU
• “Drone SAR” undergraduate design team: Sarah Greenbaum, Joy Smith, Brandi Downs, Daniel Wharton (mentor: Lee Potter), OSU
• “The Geo-Aware Mobility Traffic Simulation Framework” Jameson Morgan (mentor: Derek Doran), WSU
• “Merging Deep Networks with Algorithms for Imaging Inverse‐Problems” Ted Reehorst (mentor: Phil Schniter), OSU
• “Knowledge-empowered real-time event-centric situational analysis” Mike Partin (mentor: Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan), WSU
• “Algorithms for Efficient, Wide-FOV SAR-GMTI” Cal Schone (mentor: Goodman), OU
• “Processing of Optimally-constructed, Non-contiguous Radar Transmission Spectra” STUDENT? (mentor: Stiles), KU
• “Evaluating Impact of Trust in Human-ATR Interaction” Samuel Adelman (mentor: Mary Fendley), WSU
• “Advanced Regression Techniques for ATR System Performance Modeling” Nicholas Skapura (mentor: Gouzhu Dong), WSU

Completed

• “Signal processing with generative adversarial networks" Culver McWhirter (mentor: Dustin Mixon), OSU
• "Leveraging 3D models for SAR-based navigation in GPS-denied environments" Zachary Reid (mentor: Josh Ash), WSU
• "High-speed, high-resolution analog-to-digital converter for Simultaneous Transmit and Receive (STAR) systems" Ramy Tantawy (mentors: Waleed Khalil and Shane Smith), OSU
• “Algorithm Development for Tracking Ships within Satellite Imagery" Jason Gottweis (mentor: Thomas Wischgoll), WSU
• “Bio-Inspired RF Steganography based Joint Radar/Communication Waveform Design" Michael Gonnella (mentor: John Wu), WSU
• "T-RADAR: Fingerprinting Embedded Systems Using Passive and Active Network Traffic Analysis" Jacob Saunders (mentor: Junjie Zhang), WSU
• “Towards Geospatial Awareness using Dynamic Network Representations” Matt Piekenbrock and Jace Robinson (mentor: Derek Doran), WSU
• "Embedded System Cross Platform Symbolic Execution With LLVM IR Emulation" Jacob Saunders (Dr. Junjie Zhang), WSU
• "Correlation-based Passive Detection, Imaging and Tracking using Low-rank Matrix Recovery - A Superior Alternative to TDOA/FDOA Backprojection" Birsen Yazici (Eric Mason), RPI
• "Hierarchical Classification of Vibrometry Data" Arnab Shaw (Ashley Smith) WSU
• "Onsager-Corrected Deep Learning for Sparse Linear Inverse Problems" Phil Schniter (Mark Borgerding) OSU
• "Robust Multi-Constellation GNSS Carrier Phase Solution Using RANSAC" Zhen Zhu (Bryent Tucker), ECU
• “RF Steganography based Joint Radar/Communication Waveform Design” John Wu (Dimitri Dessources), WSU
• “High-Resolution Source Localization via Atomic Norm Minimization: A Comparison Study” Yuejie Chi (Azer Shikhaliev), OSU
• "GNSS Receiver Testing and Algorithm Development" Brian Rigling (Rachael Kolker), WSU
• “Dictionary Driven Vehicle Classification” Stefano Gonella (Jeff Druce), MNU
• “Real Time Learning of Appearance Manifolds for Resolved SAR Targets” Emre Ertin (Tarek Abdelrahman), OSU
• "Multimodal Features and Algorithms for Vehicle Classification" Jie Wei ("Timmy" Liu), CCNY
• "Approaches for Knowledge-Aided Space-Time Adaptive Processing" Lee Potter (Michael Riedl), OSU
• “Effects of target variation on M-level SAR imagery” Michael A. Saville (Erin Best), WSU
• "Human-machine interface for hyperspectral data analysts", David Woods (Kati Walker), OSU
• "Bayesian ground moving target indicator" Lee Potter (Michael Riedl), OSU
• "Dimensionality reduction methods" Aswin Sankaranarayanan (David Shaw), CMU
• “Sensor fusion for material ID (fuse optical and hyperspectral)” Phil Schniter (Jeremy Vila), OSU
• "Performance of Quantization Based ATR", Brian Rigling (Matt Horvath), WSU
• "ATR via Open Set Recognition", Brian Rigling (Matthew Scherreik), WSU
• "Improving Performance through Human-in-the-Loop Feedback for WAMI Toolsets " Mary Fendley (Adam Hoenle), WSU
• "Probabilistic Understanding of SAR Signature Variation" Fred Garber (Doug Baver), WSU
• "Impact of SAR Image Formation Quality on Target Separability", Brian Rigling (Cody Lawyer), WSU
• "Persistence of Extracted ASC Primitives in the SPLIT Algorithm", Mike Saville (Dalvir Saini), WSU
• “Hyperspectral Image Unmixing via Bilinear Generalized Approximate Message Passing” Phil Schniter (Jeremy Vila), OSU
• "Hybrid SAR-STAP Imaging with a Single Receive Channel" Lee Potter (Michael Riedl), OSU
• “Thermal Imaging for Human State Assessment” Julie Skipper (Carl Cross), WSU
• "View Geometric Approach to Tracking Scene Features" Alper Yilmaz (Jordan Lawver), OSU
• “Multi-scale Tracking Algorithms for Fusion of Multimodal Sensor Data” Emre Ertin (Tarek Abdelrahman), OSU
• “Target signature manifold learning via alignment of local linear models” Emre Ertin & Lee Potter (Rebekah Farrar), OSU
• “THz Signature Detection for Realistic Chemical and Biological Targets” Elliot Brown (John Middendorf), WSU
• "MM-Wave and THz Scatterometric Radar for Target Size and Texture Identification" Elliot Brown (Kathy Brockdorf), WSU
• “Sparse 3D Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging” Randy Moses (Christian Austin), OSU
• “Active Sensing for Tracking with Multimodal Sensors in Urban Scenes” Emre Ertin (Tarek Abdelrahman), OSU
• “Control, Registration, and Exploitation of Video Cameras for Intelligent Video Surveillance” James Davis, OSU
• "Scene Size Bounds for Squinted Polar Format Imaging" Brian Rigling (Matt Horvath), WSU
• “Point Feature Based Performance Prediction” Randy Moses (Tyler Keef), OSU
• “Radar Imaging via Exploitation of Structured Sparsity” Phil Schniter, OSU