Communications & Signal Processing

Research Areas

Transforming the way people and systems communicate

ECE faculty are leading a broad range of interdisciplinary projects to enhance the capabilities of communications and sensing technologies, including unmanned aerial vehicles, satellites, radars, chip-borne sensors, and more. 

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sensing and navigation

ECE researchers are using AI to enable real-time data collection and processing for everything from object detection to health monitoring. For example:

  • Professors Azimi and Chong utilize machine learning to map underwater areas using sonar measurements and to guide autonomous underwater vehicles. 
  • Professor Ali Pezeshki’s work has led to AI-driven sensing systems with applications ranging from agriculture to ecology to defense.
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Mahmood Azimi

Professor

Digital Signal/Image Processing, Machine Learning and Adaptive Systems, Interactive Sensing and Autonomy, Distributed Sensing,  Detection and Estimation.

V. Chandrasekar

Professor

Radar Systems and Networking, Radar Meteorology, RF Communication Systems, Signal Processing.

Haonan Chen

Associate Professor

Big Data and Machine Learning, Radar and Satellite Hydrometeorology, Remote Sensing of Natural Disasters, Cloud/Precipitation Observations and Processes.

Edwin Chong

Professor

Control and Optimization, Communication Networks, Wireless Systems.

Rockey Luo

Professor

Communication Networks, Signal Processing, Information Theory, Computer Engineering, Communication Networks, Wireless Systems.

Ali Pezeshki

Professor

Statistical Signal Processing, Distributed Sensing, Active and Passive Sensing, Bioimaging, Optimization.

Team of three male students launch balloon

CSU students’ Finland trip launches new cube satellite project

The students shadowed world-leading experts at Aalto University in Espoo in the development of tiny, nimble satellites about the size of a shoebox.

Man points at weather satellite data on a screen

Haonan Chen receives ONR Young Investigator Award to advance marine weather forecasting

Chen is harnessing AI and satellite data to improve storm prediction in oceanic environments.

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Edwin Chong named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fellows are scientists whose “efforts on behalf of the advancement of science, or its applications, are scientifically or socially distinguished.”