Fauzia Ahmad

Fauzia Ahmad

  • College of Engineering

    Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Associate Professor

Office Location

Engineering 721

Phone

215-204-3380

Biography

Dr. Fauzia Ahmad received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Temple University in 2016, she was a Research Professor and the Director of the Radar Imaging Lab with the Center for Advanced Communications, College of Engineering, Villanova University. Dr. Ahmad is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the SPIE. She has been a Principal Investigator and a Co-Principal Investigator on various projects with the total research awards exceeding $7M. These projects have been funded by various US Federal agencies. Dr. Ahmad is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging.. She is a member of the Computational Imaging Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and a member of the Franklin Institute Committee on Science and the Arts. She was the chair of the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications Committee from 2018-2020. She served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2014-2018, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems from 2017-2019, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters from 2015-2019, and SPIE/IS&T Journal of Electronic Imaging from 2013-2017. She chaired the SPIE Compressive Sensing Conference Series from 2012 to 2018 and SPIE Big Data Conference Series from 2019-2022.

Labs

Research Interests

  • Statistical Signal and Array Processing, Computational Imaging
  • Signal Processing for Assisted Living and Remote Patient Monitoring
  • Ultrasonic Guided Wave Structural Health Monitoring
  • Passive, Ground-Penetrating, and Through-the-Wall Radar Applications
  • Compressive Sensing and Sparse Reconstruction
  • Coexistence of Radar and Communication Systems
  • Distributed Radar Networks
  • Multi-modal Sensing.

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

ECE 3512

Signals: Continuous and Discrete

Undergraduate

ECE 3522

Stochastic Processes in Signals and Systems

Undergraduate

ECE 3912

Honors Signals: Continuous and Discrete

Undergraduate

ECE 4522

Digital Signal Processing

Undergraduate

ECE 5514

Digital Signal Processing Analysis

Graduate

ECE 8110

Special Topics: Radar Systems

Graduate

Selected Publications

  • Adl, Z.S. & Ahmad, F. (2023). Whitening-Aided Learning from Radar Micro-Doppler Signatures for Human Activity Recognition. Sensors (Basel), 23(17). Switzerland. doi: 10.3390/s23177486

  • Mills, K.R., Ahmad, F., & Aboutanios, E. (2022). Coarray-domain iterative direction-of-arrival estimation with coprime arrays. Digital Signal Processing, 122, p. 103332. doi: 10.1016/j.dsp.2021.103332

  • Chachlakis, D.G., Zhou, T., Ahmad, F., & Markopoulos, P.P. (2021). Minimum Mean-Squared-Error autocorrelation processing in coprime arrays. Digital Signal Processing: a Review Journal, 114. doi: 10.1016/j.dsp.2021.103034

  • Chen, H., Ahmad, F., Vorobyov, S., & Porikli, F. (2021). Tensor decompositions in wireless communications and mimo radar. IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 15(3), pp. 438-453. doi: 10.1109/JSTSP.2021.3061937

  • Chen, H., Vorobyov, S.A., So, H.C., Ahmad, F., & Porikli, F. (2021). Introduction to the special issue on tensor decomposition for signal processing and machine learning. IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 15(3), pp. 433-437. doi: 10.1109/JSTSP.2021.3065184

  • Schaff, C.A., Li, Y., Ouyang, B., Ouden, C.D., Zhou, T., & Ahmad, F. (2021). Development of a low-cost subsea datalogger for passive phased sonar arrays. Proceedings of SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering, 11730. doi: 10.1117/12.2587935

  • Pambudi, A.D., Ahmad, F., & Zoubir, A. (2021). Robust Copula-Based Detection of Shallow-Buried Landmines With Forward-Looking Radar. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. doi: 10.1109/TAES.2021.3111851

  • Pambudi, A.D., Ahmad, F., & Zoubir, A.M. (2021). A robust copula model for radar-based landmine detection. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 2021-June, pp. 4580-4584. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9413694

  • Gurbuz, A.C. & Ahmad, F. (2021). Basic principles of machine learning. In Deep Neural Network Design for Radar Applications (pp. 43-67). doi: 10.1049/SBRA529E_ch2

  • Comite, D., Ahmad, F., Amin, M.G., & Dogaru, T. (2021). Forward-Looking Ground-Penetrating Radar: Subsurface Target Imaging and Detection: A Review. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. doi: 10.1109/MGRS.2020.3048368

  • Li, Y., Schaff, A., Bavar, S., Ouyang, B., Su, T.C., Zhou, T., & Ahmad, F. (2020). Design and Implementation of Underwater Inflatable Co-prime Sonar Array (UICSA). 2020 Global Oceans 2020: Singapore - U.S. Gulf Coast. doi: 10.1109/IEEECONF38699.2020.9389089

  • Pambudi, A.D., Ahmad, F., & Zoubir, A.M. (2020). Copula-Based Robust Landmine Detection in Muti-View Forward-Looking GPR Imagery. IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings, 2020-September. doi: 10.1109/RadarConf2043947.2020.9266450

  • Pambudi, A.D., Golz, M., Ahmad, F., & Zoubir, A.M. (2020). A Spatial Inference Approach for Landmine Detection Using Forward-Looking GPR. IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings, 2020-September. doi: 10.1109/RadarConf2043947.2020.9266441

  • Pambudi, A.D., Faub, M., Ahmad, F., & Zoubir, A.M. (2020). Minimax robust landmine detection using forward-looking ground-penetrating radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 58(7), pp. 5032-5041. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2971956

  • Campbell, C. & Ahmad, F. (2020). Attention-augmented convolutional autoencoder for radar-based human activity recognition. 2020 IEEE International Radar Conference, RADAR 2020, pp. 990-995. doi: 10.1109/RADAR42522.2020.9114787

  • Comite, D., Ahmad, F., Dogaru, T., & Amin, M. (2020). Coherence-factor-based rough surface clutter suppression for forward-looking GPR imaging. Remote Sensing, 12(5). doi: 10.3390/rs12050857

  • Ahmad, F. & Markopoulos, P.P. (2020). L1-norm principal component and discriminant analyses of micro-doppler signatures for indoor human activity recognition. In Micro-Doppler Radar and its Applications (pp. 351-366).

  • Li, Y., Thomas, J., Ouyang, B., Su, T.C., & Ahmad, F. (2020). Numerical study of underwater inflatable co-prime sonar array (UICSA). Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE, 4. doi: 10.1115/OMAE2020-18393

  • Mills, K.R., Aboutanios, E., & Ahmad, F. (2019). Iterative Interpolated Beamforming for Exploiting Full Degrees-of-Freedom in DOA Estimation with Co-Prime Arrays. 2019 IEEE 8th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, CAMSAP 2019 - Proceedings, pp. 41-45. doi: 10.1109/CAMSAP45676.2019.9022667

  • Ahmad, F., Hoorfar, A., & Zhang, W. (2019). Performance evaluation of group sparse reconstruction and total variation minimization for target imaging in stratified subsurface media. Electronics (Switzerland), 8(11). doi: 10.3390/electronics8111245

  • Li, Y., Thomas, J., Ouyang, B., Su, T.C., Zhou, T., & Ahmad, F. (2019). Design and experimental study of underwater inflatable co-prime sonar array (UICSA). OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE Seattle, OCEANS 2019. doi: 10.23919/OCEANS40490.2019.8962544

  • Pambudi, A.D., Fauß, M., Ahmad, F., & Zoubir, A.M. (2019). Forward looking GPR-based landmine detection using a robust likelihood ratio test. European Signal Processing Conference, 2019-September. doi: 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2019.8902939

  • Markopoulos, P.P., Zlotnikov, S., & Ahmad, F. (2019). Adaptive radar-based human activity recognition with l1-norm linear discriminant analysis. IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, 3(2), pp. 120-126. doi: 10.1109/JERM.2019.2893587

  • Mills, K., Ahmad, F., Amin, M.G., & Himed, B. (2019). Fast iterative interpolated beamforming for interference DOA estimation in GNSS receivers using fully augmentable arrays. 2019 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2019. doi: 10.1109/RADAR.2019.8835724

  • Zlotnikov, S., Markopoulos, P.P., & Ahmad, F. (2019). Incremental L1-norm linear discriminant analysis for indoor human activity classification. 2019 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2019. doi: 10.1109/RADAR.2019.8835593

  • Pambudi, A.D., Faus, M., Ahmad, F., & Zoubir, A.M. (2019). Robust Detection for Forward-Looking GPR in Rough-Surface Clutter Environments. Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2018-October, pp. 2077-2080. doi: 10.1109/ACSSC.2018.8645385

  • Li, Y., Ouyang, B., Dalgleish, F., Dalgleish, A., Su, T.C., Baver, S., Thomas, J., Zhou, T., & Ahmad, F. (2019). Mechanical design consideration of an Underwater Inflatable Co-prime Sonar Array (UICSA). OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston, OCEAN 2018. doi: 10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604801

  • Ouyang, B., Estrada, D., Li, Y., & Ahmad, F. (2019). Human activity monitoring using a compressive active sensing electro-optical sensor. Proceedings of SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering, 10989. doi: 10.1117/12.2520139

  • Zhou, T., Ahmad, F., Ouyang, B., & Li, Y. (2019). Near-field source localization with an underwater inflatable sonar co-prime array. Proceedings of SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering, 10989. doi: 10.1117/12.2520967

  • Ahmad, F. (2019). Big Data: Learning, Analytics, and Aplications. Proceedings of SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering, 10989. doi: 10.1117/12.2536311

  • Purcell, W., Islam, S., Rhee, S., Nguyen, A., Song, S.H., Ahmad, F., & Kim, A. (2019). Wideband Ultrasonic Transducer Using Modified Space-Filling Curves. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2019-January, pp. 795-798. doi: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2019.8870683

  • Comite, D., Ahmad, F., Dogaru, T., & Amin, M.G. (2018). Adaptive detection of low-signature targets in forward-looking GPR imagery. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 15(10), pp. 1520-1524. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2018.2852684

  • Chachlakis, D.G., Markopoulos, P.P., & Ahmad, F. (2018). Mmse-Based Autocorrelation Sampling for Comprime Arrays. ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, 2018-April, pp. 3474-3478. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8461676

  • Markopoulos, P.P. & Ahmad, F. (2018). Robust radar-based human motion recognition with L1-norm linear discriminant analysis. IMBioc 2018 - 2018 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference, pp. 145-147. doi: 10.1109/IMBIOC.2018.8428927

  • Golato, A., Ahmad, F., Santhanam, S., & Amin, M.G. (2018). Multi-Helical Path Exploitation in Sparsity-Based Guided-Wave Imaging of Defects in Pipes. Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, 37(2). doi: 10.1007/s10921-018-0481-5

  • Raja, H., Bajwa, W.U., & Ahmad, F. (2018). Through-the-wall radar imaging using a distributed Quasi-Newton method. Conference Record of 51st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2017, 2017-October, pp. 85-89. doi: 10.1109/ACSSC.2017.8335142

  • He, L., Kassam, S.A., Ahmad, F., & Amin, M.G. (2018). Sparse stepped-frequency waveform design for through-the-wall radar imaging. 2006 International Waveform Diversity and Design Conference, WDD 2006 - Proceedings, 2018-January, pp. 1-8. doi: 10.1109/WDD.2006.8321494

  • Chachlakis, D.G., Markopoulos, P.P., & Ahmad, F. (2018). The Mean-Squared-Error of autocorrelation sampling in coprime arrays. 2017 IEEE 7th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, CAMSAP 2017, 2017-December, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/CAMSAP.2017.8313121

  • Golato, A., Santhanam, S., Ahmad, F., & Amin, M.G. (2018). Extended defect localization in sparsity-based guided wave structural health monitoring. 2017 IEEE 7th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, CAMSAP 2017, 2017-December, pp. 1-4. doi: 10.1109/CAMSAP.2017.8313184

  • Comite, D., Ahmad, F., & Dogaru, T. (2018). Performance of free-space tomographic imaging approximation for shallow-buried target detection. 2017 IEEE 7th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, CAMSAP 2017, 2017-December, pp. 1-4. doi: 10.1109/CAMSAP.2017.8313199

  • Ouyang, B., Li, Y., Zhou, T., Su, T.C., Dalgleish, F., Dalgleish, A., & Ahmad, F. (2018). Compressing two ways: The initial study of an underwater inflatable co-prime sonar array (UICSA). Proceedings of SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering, 10658. doi: 10.1117/12.2311575

  • Ahmad, F., Zhang, W., & Hoorfar, A. (2018). Performance comparison of total variation minimization and group sparse reconstructions for extended target imaging in multilayered dielectric media. Proceedings of SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering, 10658. doi: 10.1117/12.2306692

  • Zlotnikov, S., Somaru, P., Markopoulos, P.P., & Ahmad, F. (2018). A linear discriminative analysis based fall motion detector using radar. Proceedings of SPIE - the International Society for Optical Engineering, 10658. doi: 10.1117/12.2311574

  • Ahmad, F. & Amin, M.G. (2018). Radar imaging of building interiors. In Novel Radar Techniques and Applications (pp. 621-659). doi: 10.1049/SBRA512F_ch14