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Fauzia Ahmad
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania (BS, PhD)
Scientific career
InstitutionsTemple University
Villanova University
ThesisAnalysis and design of wide-band imaging arrays based on the coarray (1997)
Doctoral advisorSaleem A. Kassam

Fauzia Ahmad (Urdu: فوزیہ احمد) is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Temple University. Her research considers statistical signal processing and ultrasonic guided wave structural health monitoring. She serves as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and SPIE.

Education and early career[edit]

Ahmad studied electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her master's degree in 1996. She completed her doctorate under the supervision of Saleem Kassam in 1997.[1] Her PhD thesis considered the design and analysis of passive imaging arrays. After completing her doctoral degree she moved to Pakistan, where she worked at the National University of Sciences & Technology as an assistant professor in the College of Engineering.[2] In 2000, she joined the Fizaia College of Information Technology in Pakistan as an assistant professor.[2]

Career and research[edit]

She joined Villanova University in 2002, where she was appointed as the director of the Radar Imaging Laboratory. She was made a research professor at Villanova in 2013, and worked in the Antenna Research Laboratory.[3] Here she developed multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems.[3] Ahmad worked on urban sensing and Through the Wall Radar Imaging (TWRI) to visualise areas that become obscured; allowing for the collection of information and making of intelligent decisions. TWRI can permit the identification of building layouts, an understanding of activities taking place inside a building and the behind-the-wall imaging of targets. TWRI may have applications in the military, for example in search and rescue, as well as in reconnaissance.[4] Ahmad proposed the use of compressed sensing to expedite data acquisition and avoid bottlenecks without compromising quality in the processing of radar imaging.[4] She developed handheld radar systems to work in the TWRI sensors.[5] She also developed non-coherent approaches for TWRI detection and localisation, which corrects for shifts in the target location and can estimate ambiguities in the wall thickness.[6]

Ahmad joined Temple University in 2016.[7] Her research considers statistical signal and array processing as well as radar imaging, MIMO radar and target localisation.[8] Working with Bing Ouyang at Florida State University Ahmad has developed technologies for underwater sensing, using inflatable passive arrays.[9] Their Underwater Inflatable Co-prime Sonar Array (UICSA) use low size, weight and power (SWaP) compression. The sonar array is an inflatable structure that can be packed and stowed in a compact space, whilst a sparse co-prime array configuration can resolve a high number of source. The two components in combination can act to reduce the dimensions of the sonar array as well as reducing the number of hydrophones that need to be used.[10]

At Temple University Ahmad has expanded her research into healthcare, and started to develop multi-modal sensing devices to monitor patient progress.[11] She is interested in the use of depth cameras, like the Microsoft Kinect, and radar-based monitoring systems.[11] Ahmad's devices will not monitor vital signs but collect information about different activities, and use machine learning in conjunction with signal processing techniques.[11]

Awards and honors[edit]

Ahmad is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and SPIE.[12] She has chaired various conferences for SPIE, including the Comprehensive Sensing Conference Series and Big Data Conference.[13][14] She serves on the Franklin Institute Committee on Science and the Arts.[15]

Selected publications[edit]

  • Ahmad, Fauzia (2005). "Synthetic aperture beamformer for imaging through a dielectric wall". IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 41 (1): 271–283. Bibcode:2005ITAES..41..271A. doi:10.1109/TAES.2005.1413761. S2CID 34181395.
  • Ahmad, Fauzia (2008). "Three-dimensional wideband beamforming for imaging through a single wall". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 5 (2): 176–179. Bibcode:2008IGRSL...5..176A. doi:10.1109/LGRS.2008.915742. S2CID 1069408.
  • Ahmad, Fauzia (2007). "Autofocusing of Through-the-Wall Radar Imagery Under Unknown Wall Characteristics". IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 16 (7): 1785–1795. Bibcode:2007ITIP...16.1785A. doi:10.1109/TIP.2007.899030. PMID 17605377. S2CID 16678537.
  • Fauzia, Ahmad (2012). Compressive Sensing. SPIE Press. ISBN 9780819490438.

She has contributed chapters on radar, waveforms and compressive imaging to several books. Ahmad serves as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, and serves on the editorial board of IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation.[18][19][20]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Author details: Fauzia Ahmad". IEEExplore (profile). Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  2. ^ a b Ahmad, Fauzia; Amin, Moeness G. (2013). "Compressive sensing for through-the-wall radar imaging". Journal of Electronic Imaging. 22 (3): 030901. Bibcode:2013JEI....22c0901A. doi:10.1117/1.JEI.22.3.030901. ISSN 1017-9909.
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Fauzia Ahmad Promoted to Research Professor and Invited to Join Editorial Board". Villanova University. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  4. ^ a b Ahmad, F. (2014). "T04 — Sparsity-aware through-the-wall radar imaging". 2014 IEEE Radar Conference. p. 30. doi:10.1109/RADAR.2014.6875530. ISBN 978-1-4799-2035-8. S2CID 46020076.
  5. ^ "Army Awards Dr. Fauzia Ahmad $100,000 for Work on Hand Held Radar". Villanova University. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  6. ^ Ahmad, F.; Amin, M. G. (2006). "A Noncoherent Approach to Radar Localization through Unknown Walls". 2006 IEEE Conference on Radar. p. 7. doi:10.1109/RADAR.2006.1631859. ISBN 0-7803-9496-8. S2CID 42948935.
  7. ^ "Fauzia Ahmad". College of Engineering. Temple University. 2018-12-17. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  8. ^ "Keynote Speakers". International Conference on Radar 2018. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  9. ^ Li, Yanjun; Ouyang, Bing; Ahmad, Fauzia; Zhou, Tongdi (2019-05-13). "Near-field source localization with an underwater inflatable sonar co-prime array". In Ahmad, Fauzia (ed.). Big Data: Learning, Analytics, and Applications. SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 14-18 April 2019 Baltimore, MD. Vol. 10989. International Society for Optics and Photonics. 1098905. Bibcode:2019SPIE10989E..05Z. doi:10.1117/12.2520967. ISBN 9781510626430. S2CID 182239759.
  10. ^ Ahmad, Fauzia; Ouyang, Bing; Dalgleish, Fraser; Dalgleish, Anni; Li, Yanjun; Zhou, Tongdi; Su, Tsung-Chow (2018-05-14). "Compressing two ways: The initial study of an underwater inflatable co-prime sonar array (UICSA)". In Ahmad, Fauzia (ed.). Compressive Sensing VII: From Diverse Modalities to Big Data Analytics. Vol. 10658. SPIE. p. 16. Bibcode:2018SPIE10658E..0HO. doi:10.1117/12.2311575. ISBN 9781510618275. S2CID 64876547.
  11. ^ a b c "Multimodal recovery monitoring". College of Engineering. Temple University. 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  12. ^ "Fauzia Ahmad Named 2018 IEEE Fellow". College of Engineering. 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  13. ^ "Fauzia Ahmad". spie.org. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  14. ^ "Conference Detail for Big Data II: Learning, Analytics, and Applications". spie.org. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  15. ^ "Committee on Science & the Arts". The Franklin Institute. 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  16. ^ a b "Fauzia Ahmad | Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society". ieee-aess.org. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  17. ^ Group, Signal Processing (2018-10-15). "Michael Leigsnering, Fauzia Ahmad, Moeness Amin, and Abdelhak Zoubir receive the 2014 M. Barry Carlton Award". Signal Processing Group – Technische Universität Darmstadt. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  18. ^ "IET Digital Library: Editorial team". digital-library.theiet.org. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  19. ^ "GRSL Associate Editors". GRSS - IEEE - Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  20. ^ "Professional Journal Appoints Dr. Fauzia Ahmad Associate Editor - Villanova University". www1.villanova.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
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