News

08/28/2026 — Justin Lewis successfully defended his M.S. thesis, “An Approach to Multi-Dimensional Autofocus for Repeat Pass Volumetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging.” Congratulations, Justin!

07/21/2026 — Adam Eschler successfully defended his M.S. thesis, “A Complete Three-Dimensional Autofocus Pipeline for Multi-Pass Backprojection SAR With Generalized Phase Gradient Autofocus, Registration, and Elevation Phase Calibration.” Congratulations, Adam!

06/05/2026 — Dr. Kenney delivered an invited short lecture at the 16th New England Workshop on Software-Defined Radio (NEWSDR). The lecture was entitled, “Wireless and All-Digital Synchronization of Software-Defined Radios and Radars Using gr:harmonia.”

05/06/2026 — Our project, “Multi-Aperture Optimized Synthetic Aperture Radar Autofocus and Imaging Correction (MOSAIC),” has been funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

04/21/2026 — Jon Knowles presented his paper, “Even-Order Filtering Equalizer Design Considerations,” at the 2026 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technologies Conference (WAMICON).

01/21/2026 — Jon Knowles’s paper, “Generalized Theory and Realization of Reconfigurable Bandpass Filtering Equalizers,” has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

12/05/2025 — Cody Kieu successfully defended his M.S. thesis, “Digital Synchronization of Software-Defined Radios in a Wireless Distributed Radar Network.” Congratulations, Cody!

10/08/2025 — We presented our paper, “Digital Synchronization of Distributed Radar Networks Using the Unscented Kalman Filter,” at the 2025 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf25).

09/10/2025 — Cody Kieu presented his paper, “gr:harmonia: A GNU Radio-Based Tool for Synchronization of Software-Defined Radios in a Distributed Radar Network,” at the 2025 GNU Radio Conference.

07/17/2025 — Cora DeFrancesco successfully defended her M.S. thesis, “Development of a Star Tracker System for Distributed Navigation.” Congratulations, Cora!

04/15/2025 — Jon Knowles presented his paper, “Design of a Generalized Chebyshev Filter With a Sloped Passband,” at the 2025 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technologies Conference (WAMICON).

12/16/2024 — Our paper, “Concept and theoretical performance analysis for decentralised digital synchronisation in distributed radar sensor networks,” has been published in IET Radar, Sonar, & Navigation.

10/07/2024 — Dr. Kenney delivered an invited lecture at Texas Tech University for the ECE Graduate Seminar Series. The lecture was entitled, “Implementation Challenges in Airborne Distributed Radar: Navigation, Synchronization, and Signal Processing.”

08/15/2024 — Dr. Kenney joins the University of Oklahoma.