Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Communications and Sensing: Signal Processing and Learning Techniques
Abstract: The upcoming 5G networks and beyond are positioned as global communications system with low latencies to enable the tactile Internet with several interesting use cases. The open research question is the trade-off between latency, throughput, and resilience under further constraints such as security, energy, and heterogeneity. In this context, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are being considered for future generation wireless systems and are already rapidly enabling novel applications in sensing and communications such as non-line-of-sight coverage, index modulation, polarization modulation, and adaptable patterns. This tutorial introduces the audience to these recent developments in RIS-aided wireless media through well-structured presentation format covering the key signal processing elements as well the use of learning-based techniques in the design of RIS-based systems.
Duration: 3 hrs
Presenter and Affiliation: Kumar Vijay Mishra (United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA); Bhavani Shankar Mysore R (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Speaker #1: Kumar Vijay Mishra, United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, USA
Contact: vizziee@gmail.com
Biography: Kumar Vijay Mishra (S’08-M’15-SM’18) obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in mathematics from The University of Iowa in 2015, and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Colorado State University in 2012, while working on NASA’s Global Precipitation Mission Ground Validation (GPM-GV) weather radars. He is currently Senior Fellow at the United States Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Adelphi; Technical Adviser to Singapore-based automotive radar start-up Hertzwell and Boston-based imaging radar startup Aura Intelligent Systems; and honorary Research Fellow at SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg. His research on radar signal processing and joint radar-communications has won several awards and fellowships. He is the Chair (2023-2026) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission C. He is the lead co-editor of three upcoming books on radar: Signal Processing for Joint Radar-Communications (Wiley-IEEE Press), Next-Generation Cognitive Radar Systems (IET Press Radar, Electromagnetics & Signal Processing Technologies Series), and Advances in Weather Radar Volumes 1, 2 & 3 (IET Press Radar, Electromagnetics & Signal Processing Technologies Series). His research interests include radar systems, signal processing, remote sensing, and electromagnetics.
Speaker #2: Bhavani Shankar Mysore R, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust & University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Contact: mr.bhavanishankar@gmail.com
Biography:M. R. Bhavani Shankar (Senior Member, IEEE) 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 SPARC (Signal Processing Applications in Radar and Communications). He was with Beceem Communications, Bangalore from 2006 to 2007 as a Staff Design Engineer working on Physical Layer algorithms for WiMAX compliant chipsets. He was a visiting student at the Communication Theory Group, ETH Zurich, headed by Prof. Helmut Bölcskei during 2004. Prior to joining Ph. D, he worked on Audio Coding algorithms in Sasken Communications, Bangalore as a Design Engineer from 2000 to 2001. His research interests include Design and Optimization of MIMO Communication Systems, Automotive Radar and Array Processing, polynomial signal processing, Satellite communication systems, Resource Allocation and Fast Algorithms for Structured Matrices.
He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Benelux joint chapter on communications and vehicular technology, member of the Sensor Array Mulichannel (SAM) Technical Committee of Signal Processing Society, serves as handling editor for Elsevier Signal Processing and member of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Theoretical and Methodological Trends in Signal Processing. 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.
