Biography
Dr. Yimin D. Zhang is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the director of the Advanced Signal Processing Lab. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Prior to joining Temple University, he was a research professor at the Center for Advanced Communications, Villanova University, where he directed the Wireless Communications and Positioning Lab and the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Lab. His general research interests lie in the areas of statistical signal and array processing, compressive sensing, machine learning, information theory, convex optimization, computational imaging, and time-frequency analysis, applied to radar, wireless communications, satellite navigation, and assisted living. Dr. Zhang has been a Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator of numerous grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). Dr. Zhang has authored and coauthored more than 400 journal and conference papers and 20 book chapters. He is a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, an Editor for the Signal Processing journal, a member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (SAM) Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and a member of the EURASIP Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems (SPMuS) Technical Area Committee. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of EURASIP, and a Fellow of SPIE. He received the 2016 IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation Premium Award, the 2017 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Harry Rowe Mimno Award, and the 2019 IET Communications Premium Award. He coauthored papers that received the 2018 and 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Awards.
Research Interests
- Statistical signal and array processing, compressive sensing, machine learning, information theory, computational imaging, radar signal processing, wireless communications and networking, watellite communications and navigation, radio astronomy, MIMO radar/communication systems, satellite navigation, direction finding and target localization, time-frequency signal analysis, radio frequency identification (RFID)
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
ECE 4512 | Analog and Digital Communications | Undergraduate |
ECE 4513 | Analog and Digital Communications Laboratory | Undergraduate |
ECE 4513 | Digital Communication Systems Laboratory | Undergraduate |
ECE 4522 | Digital Signal Processing | Undergraduate |
ENGR 2011 | Engineering Analysis and Applications | Undergraduate |
ENGR 2013 | Engineering Analysis and Applications Lab | Undergraduate |
ECE 5512 | Introduction to Digital Communications | Graduate |
ECE 5514 | Digital Signal Processing Analysis | Graduate |
ECE 5562 | Wireless Communications Engineering | Graduate |
ECE 5600 | Graduate Seminar | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Sun, S.R.P.Y.D.Z.S. (2026). 2D DOA Estimation of Coherent Signals Exploiting Forward-Backward Covariance Tensor. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 74, 846-862. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/tsp.2026.3656569.
Zhang, S.R.P.Y.D. (2025). 2D DOA Estimation of Coherent Signals Exploiting Moving Uniform Rectangular Array. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 33, 346-350. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/lsp.2025.3646141.
Zhang, W.T.S.C.Y.D. (2025). Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Exploiting Oversampled Uniform Linear Arrays. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 33, 51-55. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/lsp.2025.3635017.
Zhang, Y.H.S.S.Y.D. (2025). Model-Based Learning for DOA Estimation With One-Bit Single-Snapshot Sparse Arrays. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 19(6), 909-925. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/jstsp.2025.3627141.
Chen, Y.D.Z.Y.D.D.S.K.D.P.G. (2025). STEC calibration exploiting interpolation for satellite-based ground emitter localization. GPS Solutions, 29(4), 197. Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/s10291-025-01949-y.
Pham, Y.D.C.M.Y.D.Z.D.S.K.D. (2024). Single-Satellite EMI Geolocation via Flexibly Constrained UKF Exploiting Doppler Acceleration. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 32, 11-15. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/lsp.2024.3487778.
Zhang, S.R.P.Y.D. (2024). Direction-of-Arrival Estimation of Mixed Coherent and Uncorrelated Signals. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 31, 2180-2184. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/lsp.2024.3446245.
Petropulu, L.X.S.S.Y.D.Z.A.P. (2024). Reconfigurable Beamforming for Automotive Radar Sensing and Communication: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors, 1, 124-138. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/jsas.2024.3431462.
Chowdhury, Y.D.Z.W.T.S. (2024). Direction-of-arrival estimation in closely distributed array exploiting mixed-precision covariance matrices. Signal Processing, 220, 109463. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2024.109463.
Greco, A.M.W.L.Y.D.Z.M.S. (2024). Multi-Target Location and Doppler Estimation in Multistatic Automotive Radar Applications. IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, 2, 215-225. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/trs.2024.3362706.
Zhang, A.A.Y.D. (2023). Optimized Resource Allocation for Distributed Joint Radar-Communication System. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 73(3), 3872-3885. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/tvt.2023.3327053.
Zhang, L.X.S.S.K.V.M.Y.D. (2023). Automotive FMCW Radar With Difference Co-Chirps. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 59(6), 8145-8165. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/taes.2023.3299259.
Zhang, S.R.P.Y.D. (2023). Optimization of the Compressive Measurement Matrix in a Massive MIMO System Exploiting LSTM Networks. Algorithms, 16(6), 261. MDPI. 10.3390/a16060261
Zhang, M.A.H.Y.D. (2023). RIS-aided integrated sensing and communication: a mini-review. Frontiers in Signal Processing, 3, 1197240. Frontiers. 10.3389/frsip.2023.1197240
Zhang, H.Z.C.Z.Z.S.Y.G.Y.D. (2023). Coarray Tensor Direction-of-Arrival Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 71, 1128-1142. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/tsp.2023.3260559.
Aboutanios, Y.D.Z.E. (2023). ISAC system assisted by RIS with sparse active elements. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2023(1), 20. Springer Nature. 10.1186/s13634-023-00977-5
Zhang, S., Pavel, M., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Crossterm-free time-frequency representation exploiting deep convolutional neural network. Signal Processing, 192. 10.1016/j.sigpro.2021.108372
Amin, Q.W.Y.D.Z.M.G. (2022). Structured Bayesian compressive sensing exploiting dirichlet process priors. Signal Processing, 201, 108680. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2022.108680.
Huang, Z.M.S.L.Y.D.Z.L.H.Y. (2022). Joint DoA-Range Estimation Using Space-Frequency Virtual Difference Coarray. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 70, 2576-2592. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 10.1109/tsp.2022.3173150
Himed, A.A.Y.D.Z.B. (2022). Joint Target and Ionosphere Parameter Estimation in Over-the-Horizon Radar. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 58(5), 4361-4376. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/taes.2022.3161396.
Li, H.B.C.H.S.L.Y.D.Z.X. (2022). Unit-norm tight frame-based sparse representation with application to speech inpainting. Digital Signal Processing, 123, 103426. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.dsp.2022.103426.
Zhang, Y.D., Ahmed, A., & Himed, B. (2022). Target Altitude Estimation in Over-the-Horizon Radar. IEEE ACCESS, 10, 11260-11273. 10.1109/access.2022.3145023
Ahmed, A., Zhang, Y., & Hassanien, A. (2021). Joint radar-communications exploiting optimized ofdm waveforms. Remote Sensing, 13(21). 10.3390/rs13214376
Liu, S., Mao, Z., Zhang, Y., & Huang, Y. (2021). Rank Minimization-Based Toeplitz Reconstruction for DoA Estimation Using Coprime Array. IEEE Communications Letters, 25(7), 2265-2269. 10.1109/lcomm.2021.3075227
Sun, S.Z.A.A.Y.D.Z.S. (2021). Enhanced DOA Estimation Exploiting Multi-Frequency Sparse Array. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 69, 5935-5946. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/tsp.2021.3122292.
Zhang, A.A.Y.D. (2021). Generalized Non-Redundant Sparse Array Designs. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 69, 4580-4594. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/tsp.2021.3100977.
Zhang, S.S.Y.D. (2021). 4D Automotive Radar Sensing for Autonomous Vehicles: A Sparsity-Oriented Approach. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 15(4), 879-891. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/jstsp.2021.3079626.