Congratulations to Vijith Varma Kotte on successfully defending his PhD dissertation
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🎉 Congratulations to Vijith Varma Kotte on successfully defending his PhD dissertation titled “FMCW Radar Systems for Automotive and Biomedical Applications” under the supervision of Prof. Tareq Al-Naffouri.
This work advances FMCW radar as a versatile and robust sensing modality by developing cutting-edge signal processing and deep learning techniques across two impactful domains:
🔹 Automotive Applications: Introduced a forward-looking MIMO-SAR radar imaging system, significantly enhancing azimuthal resolution using unsupervised Deep Basis Pursuit and Convolutional Decoder models.
🔹 Biomedical Sensing: Enabled non-contact estimation of heart and breathing rates through joint Doppler modeling, and demonstrated radar-based dehydration monitoring using machine learning on multi-frequency FMCW data.
The research was validated through real-world experiments and simulations, showing strong performance for future autonomous systems and digital healthcare technologies.
Special thanks to the PhD committee for their valuable insights and support:
🔸 Prof. Nikos Sidiropoulos (University of Virginia)
🔸 Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini
🔸 Prof. Tariq Alkhalifah
We’re proud of his achievement and the continued impact of Information Science Lab, CEMSE, KAUST’s research in the fields of radar sensing, signal processing, and AI.
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