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D-Index
57
Citations
16538
World Ranking
1932
National Ranking
758

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to signal processing for communications, networking and ultrasound imaging

Overview

Athina P. Petropulu is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans primarily in the field of Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Radar Systems and Signal Processing
  • Antenna Design and Optimization
  • Wireless Communication Security Techniques
  • Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques
  • PAPR reduction in OFDM
  • Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Christos Masouros
  • Zhaoyi Xu
  • Ahmed H. Tewfik
  • Tülay Adalı
  • Shrikanth Narayanan

They have published extensively in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Joint Radar and Communication Design: Applications, State-of-the-Art, and the Road Ahead" (2020), IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • "MIMO Radar for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems and Autonomous Driving: Advantages and Challenges" (2020), IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • "Toward Multi-Functional 6G Wireless Networks: Integrating Sensing, Communication, and Security" (2022), IEEE Communications Magazine
  • "Seventy Years of Radar and Communications: The road from separation to integration" (2023), IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
  • "On Range Sidelobe Reduction for Dual-Functional Radar-Communication Waveforms" (2020), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Athina P. Petropulu has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018. Additionally, they were named an IEEE Fellow in 2008 for contributions to signal processing for communications, networking, and ultrasound imaging.

Best Publications

  • Joint Radar and Communication Design: Applications, State-of-the-Art, and the Road Ahead

    Fan Liu;Christos Masouros;Athina P. Petropulu;Hugh Griffiths

  • Improving Wireless Physical Layer Security via Cooperating Relays

    Lun Dong;Zhu Han;A.P. Petropulu;H.V. Poor

  • Toward Dual-functional Radar-Communication Systems: Optimal Waveform Design

    Fan Liu;Longfei Zhou;Christos Masouros;Ang Li

  • An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Joint Communication and Radar Sensing

    J. Andrew Zhang;Fan Liu;Christos Masouros;Robert W. Heath

  • MIMO Radar for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems and Autonomous Driving: Advantages and Challenges

    Shunqiao Sun;Athina P. Petropulu;H. Vincent Poor

  • On Cooperative Relaying Schemes for Wireless Physical Layer Security

    Jiangyuan Li;Athina P. Petropulu;S. Weber

  • Improving Physical Layer Secrecy Using Full-Duplex Jamming Receivers

    Gan Zheng;Ioannis Krikidis;Jiangyuan Li;Athina P. Petropulu

  • Optimum Co-Design for Spectrum Sharing between Matrix Completion Based MIMO Radars and a MIMO Communication System

    Bo Li;Athina P. Petropulu;Wade Trappe

  • MIMO Radar Using Compressive Sampling

    Yao Yu;A.P. Petropulu;H.V. Poor

  • Power Allocation Strategies for Target Localization in Distributed Multiple-Radar Architectures

    H Godrich;A P Petropulu;H V Poor

  • A Deep Learning Framework for Optimization of MISO Downlink Beamforming

    Wenchao Xia;Gan Zheng;Yongxu Zhu;Jun Zhang

  • Joint Transmit Designs for Coexistence of MIMO Wireless Communications and Sparse Sensing Radars in Clutter

    Bo Li;Athina P. Petropulu

  • Sensor Selection in Distributed Multiple-Radar Architectures for Localization: A Knapsack Problem Formulation

    H. Godrich;A. P. Petropulu;H. V. Poor

  • Co-channel interference modeling and analysis in a Poisson field of interferers in wireless communications

    Xueshi Yang;A.P. Petropulu

  • Seventy Years of Radar and Communications: The road from separation to integration

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  • Blind OFDM channel estimation through simple linear precoding

    A. Petropulu;Ruifeng Zhang;R. Lin

  • Measurement Matrix Design for Compressive Sensing–Based MIMO Radar

    Yao Yu;A. P. Petropulu;H. V. Poor

  • Long-range dependence and heavy-tail modeling for teletraffic data

    O. Cappe;E. Moulines;J.-C. Pesquet;A.P. Petropulu

  • Destination assisted cooperative jamming for wireless physical layer security

    Yupeng Liu;Jiangyuan Li;A. P. Petropulu

  • Secure wireless communications via cooperation

    Lun Dong;Zhu Han;A.P. Petropulu;H.V. Poor

  • Signal reconstruction from the phase of the bispectrum

    A.P. Petropulu;C.L. Nikias

Frequent Co-Authors

H. Vincent Poor
H. Vincent Poor Princeton University
Wade Trappe
Wade Trappe Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Chrysostomos L. Nikias
Chrysostomos L. Nikias University of Southern California
Sergios Theodoridis
Sergios Theodoridis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Zhu Han
Zhu Han University of Houston
Christos Masouros
Christos Masouros University College London
Jun Fang
Jun Fang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Gan Zheng
Gan Zheng University of Warwick
John G. Proakis
John G. Proakis Northeastern University
Bjorn Ottersten
Bjorn Ottersten University of Luxembourg

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