2026 Yaakov Bar-Shalom: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	100	174	168	85	79	680	69493

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

9446
Citations
Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation

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

6885
Citations
Tracking and data association

Y Bar-Shalom;T. E Fortmann

5081
Citations
The interacting multiple model algorithm for systems with Markovian switching coefficients

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

3338
Citations
Estimation and Tracking: Principles, Techniques, and Software

Yaakov Bar-Shalom;Xiao-Rong Li

3272
Citations
Tracking and data association

Y. Bar-Shalom

3030
Citations
Sonar tracking of multiple targets using joint probabilistic data association

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

1840
Citations
Interacting multiple model methods in target tracking: a survey

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

1716
Citations
Tracking in a cluttered environment with probabilistic data association

Yaakov Bar-Shalom;Edison Tse

1375
Citations
The probabilistic data association filter

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

956
Citations
Multitarget-multisensor tracking: Advanced applications

Yaakov Bar-Shalom

887
Citations
Multiple-model estimation with variable structure

Xiao-Rong Li;Y. Bar-Shalom

836
Citations
Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Applications and Advances

Yaakov Bar-Shalom

789
Citations
The Effect of the Common Process Noise on the Two-Sensor Fused-Track Covariance

Yaakov Bar-Shalom;Leon Campo

733
Citations
Tracking with debiased consistent converted measurements versus EKF

D. Lerro;Y. Bar-Shalom

656
Citations
On the track-to-track correlation problem

Y. Bar-Shalom

646
Citations
A generalized S-D assignment algorithm for multisensor-multitarget state estimation

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

560
Citations
Censoring sensors: a low-communication-rate scheme for distributed detection

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

526
Citations
Dual effect, certainty equivalence, and separation in stochastic control

Y. Bar-Shalom;E. Tse

520
Citations
Update with out-of-sequence measurements in tracking: exact solution

Y. Bar-Shalom

517
Citations
Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking

Yaakov Bar-Shalom

505
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Willett University of Connecticut

Thiagalingam Kirubarajan McMaster University

Krishna R. Pattipati University of Connecticut

Peter B. Luh University of Connecticut

Domenico Ciuonzo University of Naples Federico II

Björn Wittenmark Lund University

Alfonso Farina Finmeccanica (Italy)

Lucy Y. Pao University of Colorado Boulder

Shengli Zhou University of Connecticut

Vikram Krishnamurthy Cornell University

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