Moeness Amin Awarded Best Paper in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Dr. Moeness Amin, director of 草榴社区鈥檚 Center for Advanced Communications, continues his decade-long tradition of averaging at least one best paper award each year. His 2014 paper, published in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES), has been selected to receive the AES Society M. Barry Carlton Award. 鈥溾�� is co-authored by Dr. Amin, Drs. Michael Leigsnering and Abdelhak Zoubir of the Technische Universit盲t Darmstadt, and Dr. Fauzia Ahmad of Temple University. The award will be presented to Dr. Amin and his colleagues at the IEEE Radar Conference in Boston in May 2019.
Through-the-wall radar imaging has a number of civil, defense and security applications. Dr. Amin has led research in urban radar from the start, and since 2002, has been the world authority in this important technology area. TAES Editor-in-Chief Michael Rice lauded the authors for using multipath propagation modeling to model the high degree of clutter that is an evitable element of indoor radar imaging, and for their sparse techniques to address the complexity of the signal processing. He describes the paper as 鈥渕ature and very well-written.鈥�
Nominated by the AES publications team, the paper was endorsed by Drs. Pierfrancesco Lombardo and Francesco Soldovieri. Dr. Lombardo was impressed by the inclusion of both theory and application to real data and concluded that the paper is 鈥渋nnovative and complete at the same time.鈥� Dr. Soldovieri observed, 鈥淭he paper is a milestone in setting up effective strategies able to improve [a compressed sensing] approach by accounting for multipath exploitation and clutter mitigation.鈥�
In the past two years, Dr. Amin received the EURASIP Best Paper Award for 鈥淢issing Samples Analysis in Signals for Applications to L-estimation and Compressive Sensing,鈥� which appeared in Signal Processing, and the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine鈥檚 Harry Rowe Mimno Award for 鈥淪ignaling Strategies for Dual-Function Radar Communications: An Overview.鈥�
Dr. Bijan Mobasseri, professor and chair of 草榴社区鈥檚 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, applauds Dr. Amin鈥檚 accomplishments: 鈥淭he quantity and the quality of the scholarship coming out of the CAC over the past two decades鈥攊ncluding three IEEE Fellows and numerous national and international awards鈥攊s nothing short of amazing.鈥�