Fauzia Ahmad

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Fauzia Ahmad

  • College of Engineering

    • Electrical and Computer Engineering

      • Associate Professor

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.

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 3522

Stochastic Processes in Signals and Systems

Undergraduate

ECE 4522

Digital Signal Processing

Undergraduate

ECE 5514

Digital Signal Processing Analysis

Graduate

ECE 8110

Special Topics: Radar Systems

Graduate

ECE 9512

Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Adl, Z.S. & Ahmad, F. (2023). Whitening-Aided Learning from Radar Micro-Doppler Signatures for Human Activity Recognition. Sensors (Basel), 23(17). Switzerland. 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, 103332. doi: 10.1016/j.dsp.2021.103332.

  • Chachlakis, D., Zhou, T., Ahmad, F., & Markopoulos, 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., Vorobyov, S., So, H., 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), 433-437. doi: 10.1109/JSTSP.2021.3065184.

  • 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), 438-453. doi: 10.1109/JSTSP.2021.3061937.

  • Pambudi, A., 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.

  • Gurbuz, A. & 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., & 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.

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

  • 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. (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).

  • 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.

  • Markopoulos, 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), 120-126. doi: 10.1109/JERM.2019.2893587.