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 3522

Stochastic Processes in Signals and Systems

Undergraduate

ECE 9512

Detection, Estimation, and Modulation Theory

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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).