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Yaakov Bar-Shalom Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Marianne E. Klewin Professor in Engineering Electrical and Computer Engrg. Dept. On faculty since 1976 University of Connecticut Electrical & Computer Engineering 371 Fairfield Way U-2157 Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2157 USA Office: ITE Building 327 Phone: (860) 486-4823 Fax: (860) 486-5585 E-Mail: ybs@ee.uconn.edu

Education:
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Technion (Israel), 1963
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Technion (Israel), 1967
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 1970

Research Interests:
Bayesian Estimation Theory with application to remote sensing and information theoretic methods for combination of data from multiple sources.

Memberships:
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
President of ISIF for 2000 and 2002
Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering

Recent Publications
Active Research Projects
Professional Activities

Recent Publications:
Archival Technical Journal Publications:

" Applications of Level Crossing Theory to Intervisibility --- To Be Seen or Not To Be Seen?, " (with X. Zhang, P. K. Willett and I. Segall), IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electronic Systems, AES-41(3):840--852, July 2005.

"Tracking with Classification-Aided Multiframe Data Association, " (with T. Kirubarajan, and C. Gokberk), IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electronic Systems, AES-41(3):868--878, July 2005.

" Multisensor-Multitarget Bias Estimation for General Asynchronous Sensors, " (with X. D. Lin and T. Kirubarajan), , IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electronic Systems, AES-41(3):899--921, July 2005.

" Angle Estimation for Two Unresolved Targets with Monopulse Radar, " (with Z. Wang, A. Sinha and P. K. Willett), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 998-1019, July, 2004.

" Pursuer Identification and Time-to-Go Estimation Using Passive Measurements from an Evader, " (with L. Lin and T. Kirubarajan), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 190-204, January, 2005.

" IMM Estimator with Out-of-Sequence Measurements, " (with H. Chen), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 90-98, January, 2005.

" Comments on Maximum Likelihood Angle Extractor for Two Closely Spaced Targets, " (with L. Kaplan and A. Sinha), IEEE Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 383-384, January, 2005.

Conference Proceedings & Other Publications:

" Multisensor Management and Fusion Algorithms for Target Tracking, " (with M. Kalandros, L. Trajlovic and L. Pao), Proceedings of the 2004 Automatic Control Conference, July, 2004.

" Multisensor Track-to-Track Association for Tracks with Dependent Errors, " (with H. Chen), Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nassau, Bahamas, December, 2004.

" Autonomous Ground Target Tracking by Multiple Cooperative UAVs, " Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March, 2005.

" Covert Sonar Tracking, " (with W. Blanding and P. K. Willett), Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March, 2005.

" The Dimensionless Score Function for Measurement to Track Association, " (with S. S. Blackman and R. J. Fitzgerald), Proceedings of the ONR/GTRI Workshop on Tracking, Maui, HI, June, 2005.

Other Publications:

Y. Bar­Shalom, X. R. Li and T. Kirubarajan, Estimation with Applications, J. Wiley and Sons, 2001.

H. Wang, T. Kirubarajan, Y. Li and Y. Bar­Shalom, Advanced Estimation and Optimization for Air Traffic Control, Perspectives in Control: Theory and Applications, (D. Normand­Cyrot, ed.) Springer, 1998..

L. Campo, Y. Bar­Shalom and X. R. Li, Control of Discrete­Time Hybrid Stochastic Systems, International Series on Advances in Control and Dynamic Systems, vol. 76, (C.T. Leondes, ed.), Academic Press, 1996.

Y. Bar­Shalom, T. Kirubarajan, and X. D. Lin, Probabilistic Data Assocition Techniques, IEEE Systems Magazine, 2004.

X. D. Lin, Y. Bar­Shalom and T. Kirubarajan, Bias Estimation without A Priori Association, Proc. SPIE Conf. Signal and Data Processing, San Diego, CA, August 2003.

A. Sinha, Y. Bar­Shalom, W. D. Blair and T. Kirubarajan, Measurement Extraction in the Presence of Sea­Surface Multipath, IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electronic Systems, AES­39(2):550--567, April 2003.

X. Zhang, P.K. Willett and Y. Bar­Shalom, A Dynamic Posterior Crame­Rao Lower Bound Target Tracking in Clutter, Proc.40th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, Dec. 2002.

T. Kirubarajan, H. Chen and Y. Bar­Shalom, Parameter Estimation and the CRLB with Uncertain Origin Measurements, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 3(4):387--410, Dec. 2001.

R. Niu, P.K. Willett and Y. Bar­Shalom, Matrix CRLB Scaling Due to Measurements of Uncertain Origin, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 49(7):1325--1335, July 2001.

H. Chen, T. Kirubarajan and Y. Bar­Shalom, Performance Limits of Centralized Estimation, IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electronic Systems, 39(2):386-- 400, April 2003.

P. Willett, R. Niu and Y. Bar­Shalom, Integration of Bayesian Detection, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, 49(1):17--29, Jan. 2001.

A. Sinha, T. Kirubarajan and Y. Bar­Shalom, Maximum Likelihood Angle Extractor, IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electronic Systems, 38(1):183--203, Jan. 2002.

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Active Research Projects:

" Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking for Battlefield Surveillance," (PI: Y. Bar-Shalom, Co-PI: P. K. Willett), Office of Naval Research N00014-1-0876, May 21, 2001-September 30, 2004 ($349,282) .

" Feature Aided Tracking for Robust BMD," (PI: Y. Bar-Shalom, Co-PIs: P.K. Willett and K. R. Pattipati), Office of Naval Research N00014-00-1-0740, June 1, 2000-December 1, 2005 ($1,055,433).

" Estimation with Multisensor Fusion," (PI: Y. Bar-Shalom, Co-PIs: K. R. Pattipati and P. K. Willett), AFOSR F49620-03-1-0118, January 1, 2003-December 31, 2005 ($390,000).

" Tracking with a Swarm of GMTI Equipped UAVs," AFOSR FA9550-04-1-0141, March 1, 2004-February 28, 2006 ($200,000).

" Multisensor Surveillance and Tracking," Office of Naval Research N00014-01-1-0079, October 1, 2003-September 30, 2006 ($196,224).

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Professional Activities:
Chair, Journal of Advances in Information Fusion (official journal of ISIF) Steering Committee.
Vice-President for Publications of ISIF for 2004.
Elected Member, Board of Directors, International Society for Information Fusion (1998-2005).
Chair and Session Organizer, 2005 IEEE Aerospace Conference.
Session Chair, 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nassau, Bahamas, December, 2004.
Member, Department of Defense Single Integrated Air Picture Task Force (2003-2008).
Member, IEEE AESS Technical Panel for Sensor Data Processing Systems.

Presentations:

" Multisensor-Multitarget Bias Estimation for General Asynchronous Sensors, " (with X. D. Lin and T. Kirubarajan), AFOSR Workshop on Information Fusion, August, 2004.

Short Course " Target Tracking, " presented at the Department of Defense JSSEO, March, 2005.

Short Course NATO RTA, Ankara, Turkey, May, 2005.

Keynote/Plenary Talks:

" Target Tracking and Data Fusion: How to Get the Most Out of Your Sensors, " The IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Distinguished Lecture given to the Long Island, New York IEEE Section, October 4, 2004.

" Target Tracking and Data Fusion: How to Get the Most Out of Your Sensors, " The IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Distinguished Lecture given to the Ankara, Turkey IEEE Section, May, 2005.

" Target Tracking and Data Fusion: How to Get the Most Out of Your Sensors, " NATO Lecture given to the Turkish Air Force Research Center, May, 2005.

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