Mojtaba Soltanalian
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and by courtesy, Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Director, WaveOPT Laboratory
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8/2024: Honored to serve the radar signal processing community as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
8/2022: Received new ONR grant supporting our high-risk high-reward fundamental research to make “Data-Aware Guarantees for Mathematical Optimization and Learning” possible.
11/2021: Elected as member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
5/2021: Honored to serve the signal processing community as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
4/2021: Truly appreciate the continued support and new Gift Funding from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.
2/2021: Received a UIC-TEC Office of Global Engagement Seed Award for collaborative research.
2/2021: Honored to serve the Chicago signal processing community as the IEEE SPS Chapter Chair.
5/2020: Truly appreciate the Gift Funding from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.
11/2019: Will serve as a Technical Area Chair for the 2020 Asilomar Conference.
3/2019: Received the UIC Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) Seed Funding Program Award.
9/2018: Received the 2018 European Signal Processing Association (EURASIP) Best PhD Award.
7/2018: Received new 3-year NSF grant supporting our research efforts on “Waveform Design and Processing for Next-Generation Radar Systems”.
5/2018: Received the 2018 UIC College of Engineering Research Award.
12/2017: Received the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Young Author Best Paper Award.
5/2017: Received new 4-year NSF grant supporting our research efforts on “Low-Resolution Sampling with Generalized Thresholds”.
9/2017: Received new DoD instrumentation grant- “Three Birds with One Stone: High-Frequency Instrumentation for Semiconductor Device Characterization, Radar and Communication System Measurements”.
Teaching: ECE 531- Detection and Estimation Theory.
Teaching: ECE 516- Adaptive Digital Filters.
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About
I received the B.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (with specialization in signal processing) at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, in Oct. 2014. Before joining UIC, I held research positions at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and SnT, University of Luxembourg. My research interests lie in the interplay of signal processing, learning and optimization theory, and specifically different ways optimization theory can facilitate a better processing and design of signals for collecting information, communication, as well as to form a more profound understanding of data—whether it is in everyday applications or in large-scale, complex scenarios.
I am a Senior Member of IEEE, and serve as a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (Radar Systems Area), as well as the Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter in Chicago. I have been a recipient of the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Young Author Best Paper Award, and the 2018 European Signal Processing Association (EURASIP) Best PhD Award.
Selected Publications
Radar Textbook (2022)
Signal Design for Modern Radar Systems
Ph.D. Thesis (2014)
Signal Design for Active Sensing and Communications
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