Professor Michail Antoniou BEng, PhD, AFHEA, SMIEEE, FIET

School of Engineering
Chair in RF Sensing Systems

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 7119
Email: m.antoniou@bham.ac.uk

Address: University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

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.

Qualifications

IEEE Senior Member, 2018
Associate Fellow of the HEA, 2013
PhD in Radar Systems, University of Birmingham, 2007
BEng (Hons) in Electronic and Communications Engineering, University of Birmingham, 2003

Biography

Michail Antoniou received his BEng (Hons) degree in Electronic and Communications Engineering and his PhD degree in radar systems from the University of Birmingham in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He is currently Professor in RF Sensing Systems at the University of Birmingham, and the Deputy Head of its Microwave Integrated Systems Laboratory. In 2024 he was a visiting Professor with the La Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests include radar imaging, distributed radar systems, passive radar and cognitive radar. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and two book chapters, as well as delivered tutorials, workshops and guest lectures on these topics internationally. He has served as Editorial Board Member for IEEE Sensors, he is a Senior Member of the IEEE (2018), and he Co-Chairs the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Focus Group of the UK Radar Society (EMSIG).

Teaching

Introduction to Communications (Level M)
LM Radar and Satellite Navigation (Level M)

Postgraduate supervision

For PhD enquiries please contact Prof. Antoniou directly on: m.antoniou@bham.ac.uk

Research

Research interests: Radar imaging, distributed radar systems, passive radar and cognitive radar.

Other activities

Member of NATO SET-227 – Cognitive Radar
Member of NATO SETs-250/317 – Multi-dimensional Radar Imaging
Co-Chair, EMSIG SAR Focus Group

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Ahmad, BI, Rogers, C, Harman, S, Dale, H, Jahangir, M, Antoniou, M, Baker, C, Newman, M & Fioranelli, F 2023, 'A Review of Automatic Classification of Drones Using Radar: Key Considerations, Performance Evaluation and Prospects', IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine. https://doi.org/10.1109/MAES.2023.3335003

Bekar, A, Bekar, M, Baker, C & Antoniou, M 2023, 'Coherent Change Detection for High-Resolution Drone-Borne SAR at 24 GHz', IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.

Jahangir, M, Griffiths, D, White, D, Donlan, G, Ren, X, Kannanthara, J, Singh, Y, Wayman, JP, Baker, CJ, Sadler, JP, Reynolds, J & Antoniou, M 2023, 'Development of a networked photonic‐enabled staring radar testbed for urban surveillance', IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation. https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12524

Conference contribution

White, D, Jahangir, M, Baker, C, Antoniou, M & Thiyagalingam, J 2024, Comparing Optical Transfer Learning and Autoencoder Pretraining for Radar Bird-Drone Discrimination. in 2024 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf24). Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference, IEEE, 2024 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2024, Denver, United States, 6/05/24. https://doi.org/10.1109/RadarConf2458775.2024.10548652

Bae, J, Baker, CJ & Antoniou, M 2024, Evaluation of Cognitive Radar Networks with Joint Adaptive Beamforming for Multipath Effect Mitigation. in 2024 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf24). Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2024, Denver, United States, 6/05/24. https://doi.org/10.1109/RadarConf2458775.2024.10548479

Griffiths, D, Jahangir, M, Donlan, G, Kannanthara, J, Antoniou, M, Baker, C & Singh, Y 2024, Microwave Photonics in Networked Staring Radar. in 2023 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP)., 10416574, IEEE International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, IEEE, 2023 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP), Nanjing, China, 15/10/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/MWP58203.2023.10416574

Nasso, I, Santi, F, Pastina, D, Bekar, A, Antoniou, M & Gilliam, C 2024, Target shape reconstruction from multi-perspective shadows in drone-borne SAR systems. in 2024 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf24)., 10549373, Proceedings of the IEEE National Radar Conference, IEEE, 2024 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf24), 6/05/24. https://doi.org/10.1109/RadarConf2458775.2024.10549373

White, D, Jahangir, M, Wayman, JP, Reynolds, SJ, Sadler, JP & Antoniou, M 2023, Bird and Micro-Drone Doppler Spectral Width and Classification. in 2023 24th International Radar Symposium (IRS). International Radar Symposium (IRS), IEEE, 2023 24th International Radar Symposium (IRS), Berlin, Germany, 24/05/23. https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS57608.2023.10172408

White, D, Jahangir, M, Wayman, JP, Reynolds, J, Sadler, J & Antoniou, M 2023, Bird and micro-drone spectral width and classification. in 2023 24th International Radar Symposium (IRS). Proceedings International Radar Symposium, IEEE, International Radar Symposium IRS 2023, Berlin, Germany, 24/05/23. https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS57608.2023.10172408

Bekar, A, Antoniou, M & Baker, CJ 2023, Change Detection for High-Resolution Drone-Borne SAR at High Frequencies - First Results. in 2023 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf23). Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf23, San Antonia, United States, 1/05/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/RadarConf2351548.2023.10149798

Humphreys, E, Antoniou, M, Baker, CJ & Clark, P 2023, Cognitive CFAR Parameter Optimization for Detection in Sea Clutter. in International Conference on Radar Systems (RADAR 2022). 17 edn, vol. 2022, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), pp. 148-153, 2022 International Conference on Radar Systems, RADAR 2022, Edinburgh, Virtual, United Kingdom, 24/10/22. https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.2307

Griffiths, D, Jahangir, M, Kannanthara, J, Baker, C, Antoniou, M & Singh, Y 2023, Direct signal synchronization for staring passive bistatic radar. in International Conference on Radar Systems (RADAR 2022). International Conference on Radar Systems, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), pp. 220–225, International Conference on Radar Systems (RADAR 2022), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 24/10/22. https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.2319

Bekar, A, Baker, CJ & Antoniou, M 2023, Drone-Borne SAR Change Detection Techniques. in 5th International Conference on Synthetic Aperture in Sonar and Radar 2023. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, vol. 45, Institute of Acoustics, 5th International Conference on Synthetic Aperture in Sonar and Radar 2023, Lerici, Italy, 6/09/23.

Ren, X, Jahangir, M, White, D, Atkinson, GM, Baker, CJ & Antoniou, M 2023, Estimating physical parameters from multi-rotor drone spectrograms. in International Conference on Radar Systems (RADAR 2022). 17 edn, vol. 2022, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), pp. 20-25, 2022 International Conference on Radar Systems, RADAR 2022, Edinburgh, Virtual, United Kingdom, 24/10/22. https://doi.org/10.1049/icp.2022.2285

Editorial

Martorella, M, Heald, G, Lyons, A & Antoniou, M 2024, 'Guest Editorial: Synthetic aperture in sonar and radar', IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation. https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12649

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