Prof. Lu Yilong - Research

Prof LU Yilong's research interests include modern radar systems, antennas, array signal processing, microwave circuits/devices, computational electromagnetics, evolutionary computation for optimization of complex problems. His current research works focus on new radar system concepts and demonstration, integrated millimeter wave antenna array, vector antennas, and new approaches for estimation of direction of arrival.

Below is a more detailed list of his current/past research interests/experience:

1. Radar Engineering

1.1 Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) Radar architecture

1.2 Automotive radar

1.3 Gesture sensing with millimeter wave radar and machine learning

1.4 Radar imaging

1.5 Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) architecture and data processing

1.6 High Frequency Surface Wave Radar (HFSWR)

1.7 Passive Radar

2. Remote Sensing

2.1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensing

2.2 Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data processing

2.3 Interferometric SAR (InSAR) data processing

2.4 Lidar data processing and sense making

2.5 Smart remote sensing with mult-modality images and machine learning

2.6 Land cover classification, re-construction of cloud covered optical images

3. Antennas and Array Signal Processing

3.1 Ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas

3.2 Millimeter wave antennas

3.3 Arbitrary digital beamforming (DBF)

3.4 Cognitive DBF with machine learning

3.5 Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation

4. Evolutionary Computation

4.1 Genetic Algorithms (GA)

4.2 Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

4.3 Applications of Evolution Computation for Optimization of Complex problems

5. Computational Electromagnetics (CEM)

5.1 Finite Element Method (FEM)

5.2 Method of Moment (MoM)

5.3 Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method

5.4 Wavelet Transform Method (WTM)

5.5 Efficient matrix equation solvers for generalized eigensystems