About

Welcome to the Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory (CSPL), affiliated with Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey! CSPL is led by Prof. Athina Petropulu, conducting research in the area of statistical signal processing, with emphasis on system modeling and system identification. Applications of interest include wireless communications, networking and biomedical engineering, etc.

                                     

CSPL Director

Athina Petropulu 2022-2023 IEEE Signal Processing Society President IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Associate Member, WINLAB Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 Office: CoRE 510 - Busch Campus     Tel: 848-445-0414     Email: athinap@rutgers.edu Group: www.ece.rutgers.edu/~cspl Full Bio

Highlights

• 2024 Dec.: Congratulations to Prof.Athina Petropulu for receiving the 2024 IEEE SPS Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award for the paper "An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Joint Communication and Radar Sensing", published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, VOL. 15, NO. 6, Nov. 2021.
• 2024 May: Congratulations to Capstone team SP24-48 (Daniel Gore, Daniel Petronchak, Felipe Valencia, Nithish Warren, Gavin Young) for winning first place in the 2024 ECE Capstone Competition and tying for first in research! Here are their capstone report and presentation video recording.
• 2024 May: Congratulations to Zhaoyi Xu (2024 PhD) for receiving the ECE Academic Achievement Award for his research accomplishments while completing his PhD.
• 2024 March: Congratulations to Silvia Mura for starting an assistant professor position at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Silvia was a visiting PhD student at our lab during Mar. - Sep. 2023.
• 2024 March: Our paper, S. Sun, A. Petropulu, and H. Vincent Poor, “MIMO Radar for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems and Autonomous Driving: Advantages and Challenges,” has been identified as being one of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s top 25 downloaded articles from Sept. 2022 - Sept. 2023 for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine on IEEE Xplore®.
• 2024 March: Congratulations to CSPL alumni Dr. Shunqiao Sun, now an assistant professor at Alabama University ECE, for wining 2024 NSF CAREER Award!
• 2023 November: Our paper, Z. Xu and A. Petropulu, “A Bandwidth Efficient Dual-Function Radar Communication System Based on a MIMO Radar Using OFDM Waveforms,” has been identified as being one of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s top 25 downloaded articles from Sept. 2022 - Sept. 2023 for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing on IEEE Xplore®.
• 2023 September: Our paper, S. Evmorfos, Z. Xu and A. Petropulu, “GFLOWNETS FOR SENSOR SELECTION” received the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE MLSP'23!
• 2023 August: Congratulations to CSPL alumni Dr. Yikai Li for joining Minnesota State University, Mankato as Assistant Professor!
• 2023 April: Our paper “Joint Radar and Communication Design: Applications, State-of-the-Art, and the Road Ahead,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 3834-3862, June 2020 received the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize!
• 2022: Our paper Y. Li and A. Petropulu, “Dual-Function Radar-Communication Systems Aided by Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces,” 2022 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Workshop received the Best Student paper award!
• 2022: Congratulations to Prof.Athina Petropulu for being the 2022-2023 President of IEEE Signal Processing Society.
• 2021: Our paper F. Liu, L. Zhou, C. Masouros, A. Li, W. Luo, and A. Petropulu, “Toward Dual-functional Radar-Communication Systems: Optimal Waveform Design,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume:66 , Issue: 16, Pages: 4264 - 4279, Year: 2018. DOI:10.1109/TSP.2018.2847648 received the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award!
• 2021: Our paper by B. Li, A. Petropulu and W. Trappe, “Optimum Design for Coexistence Between Matrix Completion based MIMO Radars and a MIMO Communication System,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 64, Issue: 17, Pages: 4562 - 4575, Year: 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2016.2569479 received the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award!
• 2021: Our paper by B. Li, A. Petropulu, “Joint Transmit Design for Co-Existence of MIMO Wireless Communications and Sparse Sensing Radars in Clutter,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Volume:53, Issue: 6 Pages: 2846 - 2864, Year: 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2017.2717518 received the 2017 Barry Carlton Best Paper Award, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society!
• 2021 July: Congratulations to CSPL alumni Dr. Dionysios Kalogerias for joining Yale University as Assistant Professor!
• 2019 August: Congratulations to CSPL alumni Dr. Shunqiao Sun for joining Alabama University as Assistant Professor!
• 2016 Feburary: Congratulations to Dionysios Kalogerias for having been selected to receive an NSF student travel grant to attend the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Shanghai, China. According to the letter that Dionysios received, grant selections were made to applicants with highly ranked papers. As part of the grant, Dionysios will receive $500 for his travel expenses to ICASSP 2016 in Shanghai.
• 2015 October: Congratulations to Dr. Shunqiao Sun on his successful PhD dissertation defense.
• 2015 May: Congratulations to CSPL alumni Xueshi Yang! The company founded by Xueshi is to be acquired by Silicon Motion Technology, a fabless semiconductor company listed in Nasdaq (Nasdaq: SIMO). See the news.