Session Index

Lecture Sessions
Tuesday May 12, 2026 (10:15-11:55)

SS: Honoring the Contributions of Joe Guerci  Chair: Michael Zatman - Johns Hopkins APL; Murali Rangaswamy - AFRL;

Systems & Subsystems  Chair: Frank Robey - DARPA; Haydn Nelson - NI;

Human Monitoring  Chair: Sevgi Gurbuz - North Carolina State University; Jacqueline Fairley - GTRI;

Tuesday May 12, 2026 (13:15-14:55)

SS: Application and Mitigation of Device Nonlinearity in High-Order Radar Detection & Sensing  Chair: Ashish Mishra - Skyworks Solutions Inc; Changzhi Li - Texas Tech University;

SAR  Chair: Armin Doerry - Sandia National Laboratory; Mike Picciolo - Anduril Industries;

Electronic Support & Protection  Chair: Lorenzo Lo Monte - IEEE; Mateusz Malanowski - Warsaw University of Technology;

Wednesday May 13, 2026 (08:00-09:40)

SS: Advances in Portable Radar for Healthcare & Biomedical Sensing  Chair: Davi Rodrigues - University of Texas; Changzhi Li - Texas Tech University;

ISAR  Chair: Marco Martorella - University of Birmingham; Andre Bourdoux - IMEC;

STAP  Chair: William Melvin - STR; Christ Richmond - Duke University;

Wednesday May 13, 2026 (10:10-11:50)

SS: Radar Surveillance & Imaging of Space Targets  Chair: Konrad Jedrzejewski - Warsaw University of Technology; Gregory Hogan - MIT Lincolna Laboratory;

Waveform Diversity & Design  Chair: Shannon Blunt - University of Kansas; Ravi Adve - University of Toronto;

Detection & Estimation  Chair: Kristine Bell - Metron; Olivier Rabaste - Onera;

Wednesday May 13, 2026 (13:20-15:00)

SS: Advanced On-Array Processing for Multifunction Radar Systems  Chair: Arik Brown - Northrup Grumman; Pawan Setlur - Northrop Grumman;

Integrated Sensing & Communication (ISAC)  Chair: Justin Metcalf - University of Oklahoma; Fabiola Colone - Sapienza University;

Over-the-Horizon & Propagation  Chair: Luke Rosenberg - Lockheed Martin Australia; Alessio Balleri - Cranfield University;

Thursday May 14, 2026 (08:00-09:40)

Antennas and Calibration  Chair: Mark Yeary - University of Oklahoma; David Schvartzman - University of Oklahoma;

Surface & Subsurface Imaging  Chair: Eric Mokole - ieee; Shobha Sundar Ram - IIIT Delhi;

Estimation & Tracking  Chair: Stéphanie Bidon - ISAE-SUPAERO, Université de Toulouse; Patrick Mc Cormick - Kansas Unviersity;

Thursday May 14, 2026 (10:10-11:50)

Automotive  Chair: Igal Bilik - Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Moeness Amin - Villanova University;

Multistatic, Networked & Distributed Systems  Chair: Brian Rigling - University of Dayton; Batu Chalise - New York Institute of Technology;

Beamforming  Chair: Kristin Bing - GTRI; Yimin Zhang - Temple University;

Thursday May 14, 2026 (13:20-15:00)

Resource Management  Chair: Alexander Charlish - Fraunhofer; Dale Blair - GTRI;

MIMO  Chair: Braham Himed - Air Force Research Laboratory; Elias Aboutanios - University of New South Wales;

Passive Radar  Chair: Scott Goldstein - Parsons Corporation; Piotr Samczynski - XY Sensing;

Thursday May 14, 2026 (15:30-17:00)

IEEE AESS Challenge Problem: Radar-Based Heartbeat Monitoring in Dynamic Scenarios  Chair: Dale Blair - GTRI; Dan Bliss - Arizona State University;

Poster Sessions
Wednesday May 13, 2026 (15:30-17:00)

Detection, Estimation & Imaging  Chair: Ramachandran Raghavan - AFRL; Vance Mcnulty - AFRL;

Hardware & Emerging Applications  Chair: Andre Bourdoux - IMEC;

Thursday May 14, 2026 (15:30-17:00)

Classification & Identification  Chair: Julie Jackson - Air Force Institute of Technology; Luke Rosenberg - Lockheed Martin Australia;

Applications  Chair: Laura Anitori - CNIT RASS;