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D-Index
100
Citations
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World Ranking
174
National Ranking
85

Yaakov Bar-Shalom publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yaakov Bar-Shalom sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 680 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Yaakov Bar-Shalom D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yaakov Bar-Shalom sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2008 - IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications “For contributions to techniques for radar target tracking in clutter.”

Overview

Yaakov Bar-Shalom is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in computer science and engineering. Their work focuses primarily on target tracking, sensor networks, guidance and control systems, inertial navigation, military defense systems, and statistical methods such as Gaussian processes and Bayesian inference.

The scientist's main fields of study are computer science and engineering, with significant contributions to subfields including artificial intelligence, aerospace engineering, computer networks and communications, control and systems engineering, and signal processing.

Bar-Shalom has published regularly in several prominent venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "On the Identification of Noise Covariances and Adaptive Kalman Filtering: A New Look at a 50 Year-Old Problem," 2020, IEEE Access
  • "MSE Design of Nearly Constant Velocity Kalman Filters for Tracking Targets With Deterministic Maneuvers," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
  • "Minimum Time Sailing Boat Path Algorithm," 2023, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
  • "Target Tracking Applied to Extraction of Multiple Evolving Threats From a Stream of Surveillance Data," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • "INS Fine Alignment With Low-Cost Gyroscopes: Adaptive Filters for Different Measurement Types," 2021, IEEE Access

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bar-Shalom include:

  • Peter Willett
  • Benny Milgrom
  • Zijiao Tian
  • Meir Danino
  • Kaipei Yang

The scientist's main research topics cover a broad spectrum, such as:

  • Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks
  • Distributed Sensor Networks and Detection Algorithms
  • Guidance and Control Systems
  • Inertial Sensor and Navigation
  • Military Defense Systems Analysis
  • Fault Detection and Control Systems
  • Gaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference

Recognition for their contributions includes receiving the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications in 2008, awarded for work on techniques for radar target tracking in clutter.

Best Publications

  • Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation: Theory, Algorithms, and Software

    Yaakov Bar-Shalom;T. Kirubarajan;Xiao Rong Li

  • Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation

    Yaakov Bar-Shalom;Thiagalingam Kirubarajan;X.-Rong Li

  • Tracking and data association

    Y Bar-Shalom;T. E Fortmann

  • The interacting multiple model algorithm for systems with Markovian switching coefficients

    H.A.P. Blom;Y. Bar-Shalom

  • Estimation and Tracking: Principles, Techniques, and Software

    Yaakov Bar-Shalom;Xiao-Rong Li

  • Tracking and data association

    Y. Bar-Shalom

  • Sonar tracking of multiple targets using joint probabilistic data association

    T. Fortmann;Y. Bar-Shalom;M. Scheffe

  • Interacting multiple model methods in target tracking: a survey

    E. Mazor;A. Averbuch;Y. Bar-Shalom;J. Dayan

  • Tracking in a cluttered environment with probabilistic data association

    Yaakov Bar-Shalom;Edison Tse

  • The probabilistic data association filter

    Y. Bar-Shalom;F. Daum;J. Huang

  • Multitarget-multisensor tracking: Advanced applications

    Yaakov Bar-Shalom

  • Multiple-model estimation with variable structure

    Xiao-Rong Li;Y. Bar-Shalom

  • Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Applications and Advances

    Yaakov Bar-Shalom

  • The Effect of the Common Process Noise on the Two-Sensor Fused-Track Covariance

    Yaakov Bar-Shalom;Leon Campo

  • Tracking with debiased consistent converted measurements versus EKF

    D. Lerro;Y. Bar-Shalom

  • On the track-to-track correlation problem

    Y. Bar-Shalom

  • A generalized S-D assignment algorithm for multisensor-multitarget state estimation

    Somnath Deb;Murali Yeddanapudi;Krishna Pattipati;Y. Bar-Shalom

  • Censoring sensors: a low-communication-rate scheme for distributed detection

    C. Rago;P. Willett;Y. Bar-Shalom

  • Dual effect, certainty equivalence, and separation in stochastic control

    Y. Bar-Shalom;E. Tse

  • Update with out-of-sequence measurements in tracking: exact solution

    Y. Bar-Shalom

  • Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking

    Yaakov Bar-Shalom

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Willett
Peter Willett University of Connecticut
Thiagalingam Kirubarajan
Thiagalingam Kirubarajan McMaster University
Krishna R. Pattipati
Krishna R. Pattipati University of Connecticut
X. Rong Li
X. Rong Li University of New Orleans
Karl Granstrom
Karl Granstrom Chalmers University of Technology
Erik Blasch
Erik Blasch United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Genshe Chen
Genshe Chen Intelligent Fusion Technology (United States)
Francesco Palmieri
Francesco Palmieri University of Salerno
Lance Kaplan
Lance Kaplan United States Army Research Laboratory
Peter B. Luh
Peter B. Luh University of Connecticut

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