IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Talk: "ISAC in the Modern Battlefield: Distributed, Opportunistic, and Cognitive Sensing" (University of Coimbra)

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IEEE Distinguished Lecturer by Prof. Kumar Vijay Mishra, The University of Maryland, USA

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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  • Departamento de Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores
  • Universidade de Coimbra, Polo II
  • Coimbra, Centro
  • Portugal 3030-390
  • Room Number: AUDITÓRIO B.5.1
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  • Co-sponsored by Instituto de Telecomunicações - University of Coimbra

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Prof. Kumar Vijay Mishra, University of Maryland, USA

Kumar Vijay Mishra 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 a Senior Fellow at the United States DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory; 2026 BEL Endowed Visiting Chair Professor in Radar Systems at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; and Technical Adviser to Singapore-based automotive radar start-up Hertzwell. 

Dr. Mishra is Fellow of International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He has served as the Distinguished Lecturer of five IEEE societies and Optica. He is the recipient of the IEEE AESS Harry Rowe Mimno Award (2026), SAE International Award for Excellence in Innovation (2025), IEEE Signal Processing Society Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award (2024), IET Premium Best Paper Prize (2021), IEEE T-AES Outstanding Editor (2021, 2023, 2024, 2025), and U. S. National Academies Harry Diamond Distinguished Fellowship (2018-2021).

Dr. Mishra is Chair (2023-2029), URSI Commission C and Chair (2025-) of IEEE AESS Technical Working Group on Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC-TWG). He is Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of River Rapids Series in Radar Systems, Signal Processing, Antennas and Electromagnetics (2025-), Editor (Deputy EiC) of Radio Science (2025-), Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2024-), and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (2020-) and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2023-). He is the lead co-editor of several books on signal processing and radar: Signal Processing for Joint Radar-Communications (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2024), Next-Generation Cognitive Radar Systems (IET Press Electromagnetics and Radar Series, 2023), Advances in Weather Radar Volumes 1, 2 & 3 (IET Press Electromagnetics and Radar Series, 2023), and Handbook of Statistics 54: Multidimensional Signal Processing (Elsevier). His research interests include radar systems, signal processing, remote sensing, and electromagnetics.