• Modeling & Simulation Certificate
• Radar Signal Processing & Techniques Certificate

Yaakov Bar-Shalom, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Marianne E. Klewin Professor in Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut, was elected Fellow of IEEE for "contributions to the theory of stochastic systems and of multitarget tracking." He has been a consultant to numerous companies and government agencies. His research has been published in more than 330 papers. He co-wrote the Monograph Tracking and Data Association (Academic Press, 1988), the graduate texts, Estimation and Tracking: Principles, Techniques and Software (Artech House, 1993), Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation: Algorithms and software for Information Extraction (Wiley, 2001), and Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Principles and Techniques (YBS Publishing, 1995). He also edited Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Applications and Advances (Artech House, Vol. I, 1990; Vol. II, 1992; Vol. III, 2000).

Paul Burns earned the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering at Auburn University, Auburn, AL, in 1992 and 1995, respectfully. Since that time, he has contributed sensor signal and data processing expertise to numerous missile defense programs including PATRIOT, THAAD, GMD, and BMDS. He has authored numerous papers in spatial-temporal signal processing, target tracking, and sensor registration. In addition, he often reviews papers for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems journals. In 2007, he served as technical co-chair for the IEEE Tribute to Fred Daum Conference. He is currently enrolled part-time at the Georgia Institute of Technology to pursue a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research interests include multisensor multitarget tracking, sensor registration, and high resolution sensor data processing.

Lisa Ehrman, Georgia Tech Research Institute research engineer, she has conducted research in a number of areas, including feature-assisted tracking, tracking closely-spaced and possibly separating targets with monopulse radar, launch point estimation, impact point prediction, and fire-control radar design. Prior to GTRI, Ehrman worked was a defense contractor with MacAulay Brown Inc., primarily supporting a surface-to-air missle warning system program known as the Suite of Integrated Infrared Countermeasures. She earned her B.S.E.E. from the University of Dayton and her M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Mahendra Mallick (bio forthcoming)

Andy Register, Georgia Tech Research Institute senior research engineer, has been developing advanced radar tracking algorithms and a software architecture for the ballistic missile tracking benchmark. With about 16 years of experience in research and development at GTRI and two early phase start-up companies, Register focuses on radar system simulation using single and multiprocessor systems, including the development of state-of-the-art computer architectures and interfaces along with their integration into human- and hardware-in-the-loop systems. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Register has been published in journals and conference proceedings relative to mechanical vibration, robotics, computer architecture, programming techniques, and radar tracking.

Philip West, Georgia Tech Research Institute principal research engineer, has been working on radar-signal processing, radar-target tracking, emitter geolocation and ECM design since 1983. He has published more than 25 technical papers, book chapters, and reports on EW and radar development. He earned his B.S.E.E. from the University of Maryland at College Park, and his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.