Athina Petropulu

Distinguished Professor

ECE

Phone:(848) 445-0414
Email:athinap@rutgers.edu
Office:CoRE 510
Website: http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~cspl

Education

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University, Boston MA, 1991

M.S.E.E., Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Northeastern University, Boston MA, 1986

Diploma in Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1986

Honors

  •  AAAS Fellow 
  •  IEEE Fellow
  •  President, IEEE Signal Processing Society (2022-2023)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (F. Liu) (2021)
  • Barry Carlton Best Paper Award, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (2021)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (B. Li) (2020)
  • Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society (2019-2020)
  • Member-at-Large, IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors (2018-2019)
  • Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2017-2018)
  • General Co-Chair, IEEE Int. Workshops on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2018.
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (2012)
  • Great Master, UESTC China (2012)
  • Editor-In-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2011)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society VP Conferences (2006-2009)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award (2005)
  • Member-at-Large, IEEE Signal Processing Board of Governors (2004-2005)
  • General Chair, IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2005
  • Presidential Faculty Fellow Award (The White House / NSF), 1995

Research Interests

  • Statistical signal processing - system identification; MIMO system estimation; blind source separation
  • Networking - cooperative protocols for wireless networks; physical layer security
  • Radar systems - compressive sensing based MIMO radars, spectrum sharing between radar and communication system, dual-function radar communication systems

Selected Publications

Research Profile and Citations (per Google Scholar)

Selected Publications

  • Z. Xu, C. Shi, T. Zhang, S. Li, Y. Yuan, C.-T. Wu, Y. Chen, A. Petropulu, “Simultaneous Monitoring of Multiple People's Vital Sign Leveraging a Single Phased-MIMO Radar," IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, to appear in 2022.
     
  • S. Evmorfos, K. Diamantaras, A. Petropulu, “Reinforcement Learning for Motion Policies in Mobile Relaying Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, to appear in 2022.
     
  • Z. Wei, Y. Qian, C. Masouros, H. V. Poor, A. Petropulu, “Physical Layer Anonymous Precoding:The Path to Privacy-Preserving Communications,” IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, to appear in 2022.
     
  • J. A. Zhang, F. Liu, C. Masouros, R. W. Heath, Z. Feng, L. Zheng, A. Petropulu, "An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Joint Communication and Radar Sensing," IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Volume: 15, Issue: 6, Year: 2021.
     
  • A. Garnaev, A. Petropulu, W. Trappe and H.V. Poor, “A Multi-Jammer Power Control Game,"IEEE Communication Letters, Volume: 25, Issue: 9, Year: 2021.
     
  • A. Garnaev, W. Trappe, A. Petropulu, H.V. Poor, “Jamming Game with Latency as the User's Communication Utility," IEEE Communication Letters, Volume: 24, Issue: 9, Page(s): 1899-1903, September 2020.
     
  • A. Garnaev, W. Trappe, A. Petropulu, H.V. Poor, “A Jamming Game with Rival-Type Uncertainty," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Volume: 19, Issue: 8, Page(s): 5359-5372, 2020.
     
  • F. Liu, C. Masouros, T. Ratnarajah, and A. Petropulu, “On Range Sidelobe Reduction for Dual-functional Radar-Communication Waveforms," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Volume: 9, Issue: 9, Page(s): 1572-1576, September 2020.
     
  • E. Tohidi, A. Hariri, H. Behroozi, M. Nayebi, G. Leus, and A. Petropulu, “Compressed Domain Signal Processing for Colocated MIMO Radars," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Volume: 56, Issue: 6, Year 2020.
     
  • F. Liu, C. Masouros, A. Petropulu, H. Griffths, and L. Hanzo, “Joint Radar and Communication Design: Applications, State-of-the-art, and the Road Ahead," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Volume: 68, Issue: 6, Year: 2020.
     
  • W. Xia, G. Zheng, Y. Zhu, J. Zhang, J. Wang and A. P. Petropulu, "A Deep Learning Frame-work for Optimization of MISO Downlink Beamforming," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Volume:68, Issue: 3, Pages 1866-1880, Year: 2020.
     
  • S. Sun, A. Petropulu and H.V. Poor, “MIMO Radar for ADAS and Autonomous Driving: Advantages and Challenges," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume: 37, Issue: 4, Year: 2020.
     
  • A. Garnaev, W. Trappe and A. Petropulu, “A dilemma in the communication of a UAV with its Controller," International Journal of Game Theory Review, Special Issue titled  "Operations Research and Game Theory: Modeling and Computation," 2020.
     
  • A. Dimas, D. Kalogerias and A. Petropulu, “Cooperative Beamforming with Predictive Relay Selection for Urban mmWave Communications," IEEE Access, Volume: 7, Pages: 157057-157071, doi=10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2950274, December 2019.
     
  • Al Hilli, L. Najafizadeh, A. Petropulu, “Weighted Sparse Bayesian Learning (WSBL) for Basis Selection in Linear Underdetermined Systems," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Volume: 68, Issue: 8, Year: 2019.
     
  • Y. Han, I. Christoudis, K. Diamantaras, S. Zonouz and A. Petropulu, “Contactless Monitoring of Critical Infrastructure," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 22-35, Year:2019.
     
  • S. Wang, V. Patel, A. Petropulu, “Multidimensional Sparse Fourier Transform Based on the Fourier Projection-Slice Theorem," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 67, Issue: 1, Pages:54 - 69, Year: 2019.
     
  • D. S. Kalogerias and A. P. Petropulu, “Spatially Controlled Relay Beamforming,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 66, Issue: 24, Pages: 6418 – 6433, Year: 2018.
     
  • F. Liu, L. Zhou, C. Masouros, A. Li, W. Luo, and A. Petropulu, “Towards Dual-functional Radar-Communication Systems: Optimal Waveform Design," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 66, Issue: 16 Pages: 4264 – 4279, Year: 2018 (IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award).
     
  • A. Petropulu and S. Lord, “Improving the Diversity of Faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering (iREDEFINE ECE)," Proceedings of the IEEE, February 2018.
     
  • L. Li, Z. Chen, and A. Petropulu, “Linear Precoder Design for a MIMO Gaussian Wiretap Channel with Full-Duplex Source and Destination Nodes,” IEEE Trans. Information Forensics & Security, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 421 - 436, Year: 2018.
     
  • Al Hilli, L. Najafizadeh and A. Petropulu, “A Weighted Approach for Sparse Signal Support Estimation with Application to EEG Source Localization," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 65, Issue: 24, Pages: 6551 - 6565, Year: 2017.
     
  • L. Li, Z. Chen and A. Petropulu, “MIMO Secret Communications Against an Active Eavesdropper,” IEEE Trans. Information Forensics & Security, Volume: 12, Issue: 10, Pages: 2387 - 2401, Year: 2017.
     
  • B. Li, A. Petropulu, “Joint Transmit Design for Co-Existence of MIMO Wireless Communications and Sparse Sensing Radars in Clutter,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Volume: 53, Issue: 6, Pages: 2846 - 2864, Year: 2017 (Barry Carlton Best Paper Award, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society).
     
  • Y. Wang, W. Xia, Z. He, H. Li and A. Petropulu, “Polarimetric Detection in Compound Gaussian Clutter with Kronecker Structured Covariance Matrix," IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, Volume: 65, Issue: 17, Pages: 4562 - 4576, Year: 2017.
     
  • S. Wang, V. Patel, and A. Petropulu, “The Robust Sparse Fourier Transform (RSFT) and Its Application in Radar Signal Processing," IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Volume: 53, Issue: 6, Pages: 2735 - 2755, Year: 2017.
     
  • D. Kalogerias and A. Petropulu, “Uniform ε-Stability of Distributed Nonlinear Filtering over DNAs: Gaussian-Finite HMMs,” IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, Special Issue on “Inference and Learning over Networks,” Vol. 2, Issue 4, pp. 461 - 476, December 2016.
     
  • D. Kalogerias and A. Petropulu, “Grid-Based Nonlinear Filtering Revisited: Recursive Estimation & Asymptotic Optimality,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 64, Issue: 16, Pages: 4244 - 4259, Year: 2016.
     
  • L. Li, A. Petropulu, Z. Chen, J. Fang, “Secrecy Degrees of Freedom Region of a MIMO Two-User Wiretap Interference Channel,” IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, December, Special issues on physical layer security, Volume: 10, Issue: 8, Pages: 1433 – 1448, 2016. 
     
  • B. Li, A. Petropulu and W. Trappe, “Optimum Design for Coexistence Between Matrix Completion Based MIMO Radars and a MIMO Communication System,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 64, Issue: 17, Pages: 4562 - 4575, Year: 2016. (2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award).