Our People

Professor Mikhail Cherniakov, PhD, DSc, has been working in various radar and remote sensing related areas since 1974. He has about 100 full journal publications, 200 conference papers and has authored and edited a number of books and book chapters.

Over the last decade he has been working specifically in the field of selected problems of signal processing. He founded and is Head of the ...

Marco Martorella is Chair in RF and Space Sensing at the University of Birmingham, Vice-Director of the CNIT's National Radar and Surveillance Systems Laboratory and Vice-Chair of the NATO Sensor and Electronics Technology Panel. He is author of more than 250 international journal and conference papers, 3 books and 20 book chapters. He has served the IEEE AES Radar Systems Panel since 2016 and ...

Professor Gashinova is the head of Pervasive Sensing Group within the renowned Microwave Integrated Systems Laboratory, with the international leadership and growing portfolio of research in three main directions:

• Sensing for Vehicle Autonomy
• Sensing for Space Domain Awareness
• Sub-THz sensing

Michail is a chair in RF Sensing Systems and Deputy Head of the Microwave Integrated Systems Laboratory (MISL) at the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering. His research interests include radar imaging, distributed radar systems, passive radar and cognitive radar.

Dr Alconcel is a spacecraft engineer and associate professor in the School of Metallurgy and Materials. She leads the MSc programme in Space Engineering. She has research interests in payload instrument development and calibration, space situational awareness from space-based platforms, data management and data access for space, and improving inclusivity in research culture. Dr Alconcel has won ...

Beth Jelfs is an Assistant Professor in Signal Processing and Data Analysis within the Microwave Integrated System Laboratory.

Dr Jelfs’s research interests are in adaptive signal processing. In particular, the intersection of signal processing and machine learning and how signal processing techniques can be used to inform machine learning algorithms.

Christopher Gilliam is an Assistant Professor in Applied Signal Processing within the Microwave Integrated Systems Laboratory (MISL) at the University of Birmingham.

His research interests include radar imaging; sampling theory; motion estimation and registration for image sequences; navigation and sensor management.

Fatemeh Norouzian is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham.

Her main research interests include various aspects of radar and remote sensing: automotive radar technologies at system and subsystem level, signal processing, material characterisation, mm-waves and sub-THz short-range sensing, electromagnetic (EM) theory, modelling and characterisation of ...

Chris Baker has been active in radar research for over thirty-five years, has published widely and has won numerous awards. He led the government research teams responsible for the development of the Sentinel and MSTAR systems in service with the UK Army and Air Force. Chris is working with colleagues at the UK National Quantum Technology Hub for Sensors and Metrologyto lead an investigation ...