Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Toronto

E-mail address :	rsadve@comm.utoronto.ca
Home page :	http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/~rsadve
Office phone :	416-946-7350
Office fax :	416-946-8765
Office location :	BA 7106 (Bahen Centre for Information Tech)
Mail Address :	Dept. of Elec. and Comp. Engg., University of Toronto 10 King's College Road Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada.

Background

I received my B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1990 and my Ph.D. from Syracuse University , Syracuse, NY in 1996, both in Electrical Engineering. In January 1997 I joined Research Associates for Defense Conversion, Inc. working on a research contract with the Signal Processing Branch of the Sensors Directorate within the Air Force Research Laboratory at the Rome Research Site (It used to be AFRL/SNRT).

I joined the ECE Dept. of the University of Toronto in August 2000 where my primary appointment is with the Communications Group , but I am also cross listed with the Electromagnetics Group . My primary area of research is in the physical layer of wireless communication systems and sensor networks. I am also interested in adaptive signal processing for radar systems.

Research

Research Page : Overview of my group's research goals, current and past work

Adaptive processing in the physical layer in communication systems : 

Exploiting the spatial and temporal dimensions to improve the quality, capacity and reliability of wireless communication systems.

Enabling cooperation for energy savings in wireless sensor and data reliability and/or access-point networks.

Signal processing for radar systems : The detection, identification and tracking of tactical targets in stressful interference environments using advanced signal processing techniques.

Some specific problems we are working on are:

· Precoding in multiuser downlink communications with a specific focus on practical, linear, schemes with limited feedback.

· Energy efficiency and reliability in access-point and sensor networks with a specific focus on the practical schemes for node cooperation and analysis of cooperation schemes based on error control coding.

· Robust adaptive processing for airborne surveillance radar in stressful interference conditions, especially non-homogeneous clutter conditions.

· The use of waveform diversity in combination with widely distributed apertures for extremely accurate target detection and tracking; one application high frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) and over-the-horizon radar (OTHR).

· Signal processing techniques to detect concealed weapons using a noise radar

· Modeling and design of radar techniques for Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (with Prof. Georgia Fotopoulos of Civil Engineering)

Personal Interests

· Keeping this little fella out of trouble. Oh! my god! There are two of them!

· Squash 

· Talking about loosing weight

· Hiking, camping, reading (esp. the New York Times and the Economist)

· Cricket! I nearly always begin my day with a quick look at the latest scores, though my son has been pushing me into hockey and basketball.