ISAC in the Modern Battlefield: Distributed, Opportunistic, and Cognitive Sensing (NOVA FCT)
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The modern battlefield is becoming increasingly connected, contested, and data-driven, with sensing and communications performed by heterogeneous platforms operating under severe constraints on spectrum, hardware, and available information. This emerging paradigm presents fundamental challenges and exciting opportunities for signal processing and integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). Future ISAC is not merely about putting radar and communications on the same platform. It is about turning every available signal, platform, and interaction into an opportunity for sensing and cognition. In this context, this talk explores representative advances across three complementary ISAC paradigms: coexistence, co-design, and opportunistic sensing. In the coexistence setting, we present a dual-blind deconvolution framework for overlaid radar-communications systems, where neither the transmitted signals nor the propagation channels are known. In co-design ISAC, we examine exploiting orbital angular momentum to exploit additional spatial degrees of freedom to jointly support sensing and communications. We then turn to opportunistic sensing, where communication infrastructure from satellites and 5G base stations is repurposed for sensing precipitation without dedicated radar hardware. We end with a more cognitive perspective through inverse stochastic filtering, where the objective moves beyond estimating physical parameters toward inferring latent processes and underlying causes from their observable consequences. Together, these examples point toward a broader vision of ISAC for the modern battlefield and beyond.
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- NOVA FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Caparica
- Caparica, Lisboa
- Portugal 2829-516
- Building: Biblioteca
- Room Number: Auditório
- Starts 30 October 2026 12:00 AM UTC
- Ends 16 November 2026 12:00 AM UTC
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Kumar Mishra of The University of Maryland, College Park
ISAC in the Modern Battlefield: Distributed, Opportunistic, and Cognitive Sensing
Biography:
Kumar Vijay Mishra (S’08-M’15-SM’18) obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and M.S. in mathematics from The University of Iowa in 2015, and M.S. in electrical engineering from Colorado State University in 2012, while working on NASA’s Global Precipitation Mission Ground Validation (GPM-GV) weather radars. He received his B. Tech. summa cum laude (Gold Medal, Honors) in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (NITH), India in 2003. He is currently Research Scientist at the Institute for Systems Research, The University of Maryland, College Park under the ARL-ArtIAMAS program; Technical Adviser to Singapore-based automotive radar start-up Hertzwell; and honorary Research Fellow at SnT - Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg. Previously, he had research appointments at the United States Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Adelphi; Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE), Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Bengaluru; IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering, Iowa City, IA; Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA; Qualcomm, San Jose; and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
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15:00 - Kumar Vijay Mishra, "ISAC in the Modern Battlefield: Distributed, Opportunistic, and Cognitive Sensing"