News Archive

  • Jan'12 Dr. Yimin Zhang is coauthoring a book chapter, "Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of Nonstationary Signals,"  with Dr. Moeness Amin, for the Array Signal Processing section of the upcoming Elsevier E-Reference Signal Processing.  The E-Reference will be available in print and online through the publisher’s Science Direct platform.  Each chapter will be updated to reflect recent developments in research every two to four years. The E-Reference will be highly structured and searchable, using newly commissioned content that presents cutting edge technologies, latest research, key equations, applications, standards, code, and core principles. With online access, researchers can quickly and easily link within the work, all from the convenience of their desktop. 

  • Jan'12 Dr. Yimin Zhang is a coauthor of four papers accepted for publication in IEEE International Conferences on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) to be held in Kyoto, Japan, in March 2012. These papers are:

    • Energy harvesting in an OSTBC based amplify-and-forward relay system

    • Joint optimization of relay position and power allocation in cooperative broadcast wireless networks

    • Time-frequency analysis of multipath Doppler signatures of maneuvering targets

    • Ultrasound multipath background clutter mitigation based on subspace analysis and projection 

  • Jan'12 Journal paper "Local CSI based selection beamforming for amplify-and-forward MIMO relay networks," coauthored by Dr. Yimin Zhang and his post-doc, Dr. Batu Chalise, along with Dr. Luc Vandendorpe and Dr. Moeness Amin, is accepted for publication at the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

  • May'11 Journal paper "Joint optimization of source power allocation and relay beamforming in multiuser cooperative wireless networks," coauthored by Dr. Yimin Zhang, Dr. Xin Li, and Dr. Moeness Amin, is published in a special issue of Mobile Networks and Applications. The special issue on "Communications Technologies" features selected papers presented at the 2009 ChinaCom.

  • Jan'11 The Center for Advanced Communications is awarded the " Intelligent Remote Sensing for Urban Warfare Operations (Phase II)" project from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  The proposed research efforts will advance the solutions of detection, localization, tracking, and classification of targets of interest inside enclosed structures and to understand the phenomenology guiding the intricacy of urban sensing operations from airborne platforms. The approach is multi-faceted and integrates various techniques from electromagnetics (EM), antenna design, signal processing, communications, and target classifications to provide comprehensive solutions to some of the current challenges in urban sensing. Dr. Zhang is a Co-Principal Investigator of this project.
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  • Dec'10 Book chapter "Image and localization of behind-the-wall targets using linear and distributed apertures," coauthored by Dr. Yimin Zhang and Dr. Alan Hunt, is published in book, Through the Wall Radar Imaging, edited by Dr. Moeness Amin and published from the CRC Press in December 2010.

  • Sep'10 Dr. Yimin Zhang and his colleagues, Dr. Moeness Amin and Dr. Fauzia Ahmad, are awarded the "Next-Generation Over-the-Horizon HF Radar (NGOTHR) Moving Target Indicator (MTI) and Clutter Mitigation Development" project from the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL). Under the support of AFRL, the team will investigate novel signal processing techniques for MIMO radar array and waveform design to advance the wide-area surveillance capability and performance of over-the-horizon radar systems.  The project focus will be spread-Doppler clutter mitigation and target geo-location. Dr. Zhang is the Principal Investigator of this project.
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  • Sep'10 Book chapter "Principles and techniques of RFID positioning," coauthored by Dr. Yimin Zhang and his colleagues, Dr. Xin Li and Dr. Moeness Amin, is published in book, RFID Systems, Research Trends and Challenges, edited by Dr. Miodrag Bolić, Dr. David Simplot-Ryl, and Dr. Ivan Stojmenović and published from the John Wiley in September 2010.

  • Aug'10 Dr. Zhang visited McMaster University, Canada, and Xidian University, China. He presented talks that reflect his team's recent work on multi-source cooperative networking.

  • Mar'10 Villanova University leads a partnership which receives a National Science Foundation (NSF) "Partnerships for Innovation in Acoustic and Ultrasound Technologies for Medical and Industrial Applications" project.   The partnership includes Bucknell University, Gwynedd-Mercy College (GMC), Ben Franklin Technology Partners (BFTP), Siemens, Boeing, and Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). The partnership centers around acoustic and ultrasound education, research, and development with emphases on medical and industrial applications.  Dr. Yimin Zhang is a Co-Principal Investigator of this project.
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  • Jan'10 Dr. Yimin Zhang is named as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions of Signal Processing. The IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing is the most recognized journal in signal processing which covers novel theory, algorithms, performance analyses and applications of techniques for the processing, understanding, learning, retrieval, mining, and extraction of information from signals.

  • Aug'09 The Center for Advanced Communications is awarded the " Intelligent Remote Sensing for Urban Warfare Operations" project from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  The proposed research efforts will advance the solutions of detection, estimation, localization, tracking of targets of interest inside enclosed structures and to understand the phenomenology guiding the intricacy of urban sensing operations from both ground and air. Dr. Yimin Zhang is a Co-Principal Investigator of this project.
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  • Aug'09 Dr. Yimin Zhang receives ChinaCom 2009 Best Paper Award with his colleagues, Dr. Xin Li and Dr. Moeness Amin, for their coauthored paper “Distributed Beamforming in Multi-User Cooperative Wireless Networks.” The conference was held in Xi’an, China, on August 26-28, 2009. ChinaCom, which brings together Chinese and international researchers in networking and communications under one roof, is being positioned as a premier international annual conference for the presentation of advances in the field of communications, networking, and Internet research and applications.