Primary Mission:
Support Department of Defense
Theory – Computation – Experiments
Current research topics
- Missile defense: tracking, discrimination, sensor resource allocation optimization, flash hyperspectral imaging;
- Modeling and Simulation: sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification and reduction in complex nonlinear models, automated differentiation, global optimization
- Laser arrays: directed energy, terahertz sources, blue sources (satellite to underwater communications), TB / (UWB) fiber coms
- Real-time high-performance computing: emerging multicore and digital optical processors for embedded real-time signal processing applications: IBM CELL, DARPA HyperX, NVIDIA GPUs (Fermi, Kepler), EnLight; asynchronous algorithms
- Anti-Submarine Warfare: ultra-sensitive spatio-temporal coherent detection, tracking, discrimination, dynamic vector-sensor networks, acoustic propagation
- Quantum optics: cryptography, communications, remote sensing
- Computer Science: cyber-physical networks, graph theory, quantum computing
- Intelligent Systems: cognitive radio, non-Lipschitzian models of terror network dynamics, multisensor fusion, neurocomputing
- CBWA Standoff Detection: Rydberg spectroscopy with microwave backscatter
- OFDM Radar: detection (sparsity-based STAP), tracking (delay-Doppler sparsity), adaptive waveform design
CESAR funding: Department of Defense (70%), Department of Energy (10%), Intelligence Community (15%), Industry (5%)