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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to modeling electromagnetic wave propagation in complex media.

Overview

Carey M. Rappaport is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio primarily within the field of engineering. Their work covers several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, cognitive neuroscience, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their research topics focus on areas such as terahertz technology and applications, advanced SAR imaging techniques, microwave imaging and scattering analysis, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, geophysical methods and applications, radar systems and signal processing, and microwave and dielectric measurement techniques.

Recent publications by Carey M. Rappaport include:

  • Single-Frequency Fast Dielectric Characterization of Concealed Body-Worn Explosive Threats (2020), IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • Automatic Threat Prediction of Body-Worn Objects for Security Screening Purposes (2022), IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • Nominal Body Contour Reconstruction for Millimeter-Wave Characterization of Suicide Bomber Explosives (2021), IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • Pixel-Wise Localization of Concealed Objects on Millimeter-Wave Radar Images Using Deep Learning (2024), IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems
  • Fast, Fully-Automatic Characterization of Metallic and Water-Based Threat Objects for Millimeter-Wave Personnel Screening Systems (2023), IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation

Frequent co-authors in their work include Mahshid Asri, Mohammad M. Tajdini, Elizabeth Wig, Eric D. Robinsòn, and Sarah Hadipour.

Carey M. Rappaport has published multiple papers in various prominent venues, with a concentration in:

  • IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  • IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation
  • 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology (PAST)
  • 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist's research contributions also extend to modeling electromagnetic wave propagation in complex media, which was recognized by being named an IEEE Fellow in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Time reversal with the FDTD method for microwave breast cancer detection

    P. Kosmas;C.M. Rappaport

  • A shape reconstruction method for electromagnetic tomography using adjoint fields and level sets

    Oliver Dorn;Eric L Miller;Carey M Rappaport

  • Wide-aperture catheter-based microwave cardiac ablation antenna

    Carey M. Rappaport;Paul Wang;Zeji Gu

  • Perfectly matched absorbing boundary conditions based on anisotropic lossy mapping of space

    C.M. Rappaport

  • A general method for FDTD modeling of wave propagation in arbitrary frequency-dispersive media

    W.H. Weedon;C.M. Rappaport

  • Balloon angioplasty device

    Carey M. Rappaport

  • FDTD-based time reversal for microwave breast cancer Detection-localization in three dimensions

    P. Kosmas;C.M. Rappaport

  • A matched-filter FDTD-based time reversal approach for microwave breast cancer detection

    P. Kosmas;C.M. Rappaport

  • An FPGA implementation of the two-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm

    Wang Chen;Panos Kosmas;Miriam Leeser;Carey Rappaport

  • Statistical method to detect subsurface objects using array ground-penetrating radar data

    Xiaoyin Xu;E.L. Miller;C.M. Rappaport;G.D. Sower

  • SAR Imaging of Suicide Bombers Wearing Concealed Explosive Threats

    Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo;Fernando Quivira;Carey M. Rappaport

  • Subsurface Sensing of Buried Objects Under a Randomly Rough Surface Using Scattered Electromagnetic Field Data

    R. Firoozabadi;E.L. Miller;C.M. Rappaport;A.W. Morgenthaler

  • Three-dimensional subsurface analysis of electromagnetic scattering from penetrable/PEC objects buried under rough surfaces: use of the steepest descent fast multipole method

    M. El-Shenawee;C. Rappaport;E.L. Miller;M.B. Silevitch

  • FDTD simulation of TE and TM plane waves at nonzero incidence in arbitrary Layered media

    S.C. Winton;P. Kosmas;C.M. Rappaport

  • Wave Scattering by Dielectric and Lossy Materials Using the Modified Equivalent Current Approximation (MECA)

    J G Meana;J Á Martinez-Lorenzo;F Las-Heras;C Rappaport

  • Minimum entropy regularization in frequency-wavenumber migration to localize subsurface objects

    Xiaoyin Xu;E.L. Miller;C.M. Rappaport

  • Modeling with the FDTD method for microwave breast cancer detection

    P. Kosmas;C.M. Rappaport;E. Bishop

  • A new shape-based method for object localization and characterization from scattered field data

    E.L. Miller;M. Kilmer;C. Rappaport

  • Physical Limitations on Detecting Tunnels Using Underground-Focusing Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar

    J A Martinez-Lorenzo;C M Rappaport;F Quivira

  • Improving Security Screening: A Comparison of Multistatic Radar Configurations for Human Body Imaging

    Borja Gonzalez-Valdes;Yuri Alvarez;Spiros Mantzavinos;Carey M. Rappaport

  • Interpreting and improving the PML absorbing boundary condition using anisotropic lossy mapping of space

    C.M. Rappaport

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric L. Miller
Eric L. Miller Tufts University
Fernando Las-Heras
Fernando Las-Heras University of Oviedo
Akram N. Alshawabkeh
Akram N. Alshawabkeh Northeastern University
Daniel B. Kopans
Daniel B. Kopans Harvard University
David A. Castanon
David A. Castanon Boston University
Paul J. Wang
Paul J. Wang Stanford University
Milica Stojanovic
Milica Stojanovic Northeastern University
Oscar Lopez
Oscar Lopez Universidade de Vigo
Michael B. Steer
Michael B. Steer North Carolina State University
Atef Z. Elsherbeni
Atef Z. Elsherbeni Colorado School of Mines

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