Radar has evolved from being niche to ubiquitous. The application and usage of this technology has significantly expanded over the recent years, proliferating into multiple modes of transportation, human centric applications like healthcare, robotics among others. These has been made possible by exploitation of large bandwidths, new architectures, model-based and data-driven algorithms and initiatives towards benefitting from other RF services. In the current application canvas, radar has a unique position – offering low complexity, robust and privacy preserving solutions with an increasing trend towards achievable angular resolution. This talk explores the role of waveform design in modern radar systems offering insights into the available degrees of freedom, design objectives, optimization methodologies and highlighting the gains accrued.
M. R. Bhavani Shankar received Masters and Ph. D in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2000 and 2007 respectively. He was a Post Doc at the ACCESS Linnaeus Centre, Signal Processing Lab, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden from 2007 to September 2009. He joined SnT in October 2009 as a Research Associate and is currently a Senior Research Scientist/ Assistant Professor at SnT leading the Radar Signal Processing activities. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Benelux joint chapter on communications and vehicular technology, serves as associate editor for IEEE TAES and is a member of the IEEE SPS SAM Technical Committee. He was a co-recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Contributions to Satellite Communications Award, from the Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society and co-author of the paper that received Special Mention for the Barry Carlton best paper award by IEEE TAES in 2023