CENTER FOR ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS: RESEARCH AREAS
The following is a sampling of grants and projects related to CAC faculty areas of expertise.
- Evaluation and Improvement of Envelope Spectrum Technique for Bearing Fault Detection
Dr. Ramazan Demirli
Sponsor: Vibration Specialty Corporation / Ben Franklin - Partnership for Innovation in Acoustic and Ultrasound Technologies for Medical and Industrial Applications
Drs. Moeness Amin, Gary Gabriele, Yimin Zhang, and Mr. Dick Thompson
Sponsor: National Science Foundation - Through-the-Wall Target Detection and Classification for Achieving Transparent Urban Structures
Drs. Moeness Amin, Ahmad Hoorfar, and Yimin Zhang
- Printed Wideband Metamaterial Antennas for Ballistic Panels
Dr. Ahmad Hoorfar
Sponsor: Applied Nanotech, Inc. - Electromagnetic Modeling and Complex Natural Frequency Characterization of Objects Behind Walls
Dr. Ahmad Hoorfar
Sponsor: Eureka Aerospace - Electromagnetic Modeling And Measurement Of The V22
Dr. Ahmad Hoorfar - Novel High Gain Printed Antennas For Millimeter-Wave Applications
Dr. Ahmad Hoorfar - Development Of Efficient Antenna Optimization & Design Automation Tools
Dr. Ahmad Hoorfar - Novel Electrically Small Antennas and Metamaterial High Impedance Surfaces
Dr. Ahmad Hoorfar
- Array Processing for Interference Suppression in GPS Receivers
Dr. Moeness Amin
- Signal Processing Techniques For Anti-Jamming GPS
Dr. Moeness Amin
- Development of Through Wall Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing Algorithms
Dr. Moeness Amin
Sponsor: Defense Research and Development 鈥 Canada - Multipath Exploitation & Knowledge Based Urban Radar Imaging Using Compressive Sensing
Drs. Fauzia Ahmad and Moeness Amin
Sponsor: Army Research Office - Multilayered Wall Characteristic Extraction for Through Wall Radar Systems
Drs. Fauzia Ahmad and Ahmad Hoorfar
Sponsor: eWave Informatics, LLC - Intelligent Remote Sensing for Urban Warfare Operations - PHASE II
Drs. Moeness Amin, Ahmad Hoorfar, Bijan Mobasseri, and Fauzia Ahmad
Sponsor: DARPA/Concurrent Technology Corporation - Intelligent Remote Sensing for Urban Warfare Operations
Drs. Moeness Amin, Ahmad Hoorfar, Bijan Mobasseri, and Fauzia Ahmad
Sponsor: DARPA/Concurrent Technology Corporation - Improved Target Detection in Urban Sensing Using Distributed Sensing and Fast Acquisition Techniques
Dr. Moeness Amin
- Reconfigurable Arrays and Signal Properties for Urban Sensing - PHASE II
Drs. Robert Caverly, Moeness Amin, Ahmad Hoorfar, Bijan Mobasseri, and Fauzia Ahmad
Sponsor: DARPA/Concurrent Technology Corporation - Reconfigurable Arrays and Signal Properties for Urban Sensing
Drs. Robert Caverly, Moeness Amin, Ahmad Hoorfar, Bijan Mobasseri, and Fauzia Ahmad
Sponsor: DARPA/Concurrent Technology Corporation - Interior Intelligence by Networked Sensing, Imaging and Global Hierarchical Tomography (I2NSIGHT)
Drs. Ahmad Hoorfar, Moeness Amin, Fauzia Ahmad, and Yimin Zhang
Sponsor: DARPA/BAE Systems - Advanced Processing for Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging
Drs. Moeness Amin
Sponsor: Australian Research Council - Through-The-Wall Microwave Imaging Radar
Drs. Moeness Amin and Ahmad Hoofar
Sponsor: DARPA/Concurrent Technology Corporation - Characterization Near Field Scattering
Dr. Moeness Amin
- Advanced Signal Processing For Over-The-Horizon Radar Systems
Drs. Moeness Amin and Yimin Zhang
- Classification and Detection of Micro-Doppler Representation of Human Arm Swinging Motion
Drs. Moeness Amin and Bijan Mobasseri
Sponsor: Defense Research and Development - Canada
- Nano-Spectrometers with Microstructured Optical Fibers for Chemical Sensing
Dr. Rosalind Wynne - Polarimetric and Indoor Imaging Fusion Based on Compressive Sensing
Dr. Moeness Amin
- Joint Chemical Sensing with Microstructured Optical Fibers
Dr. Rosalind Wynne
Sponsor: Army Research Office
- Authentication of Active Sonar in a Multiuser Environment
Dr. Bijan Mobasseri
Sponsor: Naval Undersea Warfare Center - Sonar Identification and Authentication Using Embedded Digital Watermarks - PHASE II
Dr. Bijan Mobasseri
Sponsor: Naval Undersea Warfare Center - Radio Frequency (RF) Modeling of Layered Composite Dielectric Building Materials
Drs. Ahmad Hoorfar and Moeness Amin
Source: Office of Naval Research - RF Data Link Multi-Path Interference Mitigation Processing Solutions
Drs. Yimin Zhang and Moeness Amin
Sponsor: Navmar Applied Science Corporation / Ben Franklin - Antenna Array Beamforming & Space-Time Processing Algorithms for Wideband Telemetry Digital Communications
Drs. Yimin Zhang and Moeness Amin
Sponsor: Teletronics Technology Corporation / Ben Franklin - Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Lab
Drs. Yimin Zhang and Moeness Amin
Sponsor: Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern PA - Development of Orphan Meter Detection Techniques
Drs. Yimin Zhang and Moeness Amin
Sponsor: Cellnet + Hunt - Seamless Non-Line-Of-Sight Communications For Urban Warfare
Drs. Moeness Amin and Yimin Zhang - RF Data Link Multi-path Interference Mitigation
Drs. Yimin Zhang and Moeness Amin
Sponsor: Navmar Applied Science Corp. - Digital Watermarking of Autonomous Vehicles Imagery and Video Communications
Dr. Bijan G. Mobasseri
- High-Rate Multiuser Cooperative Diversity Systems
Dr. Yimin Zhang
- Beamforming and Antenna Array Technologies for RF Tagging Applications
Drs. Moeness Amin and Yimin Zhang
Sponsor: VerdaSee Solutions, Inc./ Ben Franklin - Wideband Active Diplexer Circuit
Dr. Robert Caverly
Sponsor: Artisan Laboratories Corporation / Ben Franklin - Indoor Wireless Channel Modeling And Equalization
Drs. Moeness Amin and Yimin Zhang - Smart Digital Video
Dr. Bijan Mobasseri - Space-Time Coding For Wireless Communications
Drs. Moeness Amin and Yimin Zhang - Integrated Antenna Characterization And Optimization For Breadcrumb Module
Drs. Moeness Amin and Ahmad Hoorfar - Applications Of Smart Antennas To Rotorcrafts
Drs. Moeness Amin and Ahmad Hoorfar
CAC RESEARCHERS
CAC NEWS
Dr. Amin鈥檚 800 Publications Pass 20,000 Citations with H-Index of 72
Dr. Moeness Amin, director of 奶糖直播 University's Center for Advanced Communications, reached an important milestone in his three decades of research and scholarship. His published work, which includes more than 250 journal papers and 550 conference papers, all while at 奶糖直播, has exceeded 20,000 citations with an H-index of 72.
Professor Robert Caverly, PhD, Named Recipient of 2020 Outstanding Faculty Research Award
Dr. Robert Caverly, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Microwave and Electromagnetics Laboratory was recognized for his impressive scholarship and reputation in microwave control circuitry. The award recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates the highest standards of excellence in research, scholarship and contributions to their field.
CAC Researchers Awarded Grants through Manufacturing PA Initiative
Manufacturing PA awarded academic-industry research grants to Electrical and Computer Engineering鈥檚 Drs. Rosalind Wynne and Meltem Izzetoglu. Dr. Wynne is partnering with Avo Photonics on 鈥淢anufacturing Process, Assembly and System Yield Optimization for Microelectromechanical Systems Devices,鈥 while Dr. Izzetoglu is developing a smart brain imager in collaboration with Infrascan, Inc.