Assistant Professor
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, 2007
- M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, 2003
- B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, 1997
Contact information
- Email: ibilik@umassd.edu
- Phone: 508.999.8535
- Fax: 508.999.8489
- Office: Group II, Room 214B
Biography
Dr. Igal Bilik received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel in 1993, 2003 and 2006, respectively. His doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Tabrikian in the Department of ECE at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, was sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and it addresses two fundamental problems in radar signal processing: target tracking and automatic target recognition (ATR). In his dissertation he derived ATR algorithms which were implemented in ground surveillance radars in the Israeli Defense Forces. During 1998-2001 he worked in Itran Communication, Israel, where he was engaged in development of high-speed broadband modem for power-lines. During his graduate study he served as a consultant to EPOS Israel, where he was engaged in development of digital pen, and was responsible for derivation of multipath mitigation algorithm for acoustic positioning system. During his military service in Israeli Defense Forces he served as a Chief Academic Office in the Communication Division, where he was responsible for development of radar systems managing a team of engineers and technicians. During this period, he was engaged in development of a variety of radar systems in ELTA and RAFAEL companies and derived signal processing algorithms for radars. During 2006-2008 he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Duke University where he has been primarily involved in two projects: 1) passive acoustic surveillance with unmanned underwater vehicles, and 2) radar array processing for Doppler-spread clutter mitigation. His research interests include statistical signal and sensor array processing with application to sonar and radar systems, detection and estimation theory, automatic target classification, and target tracking. He received the Best Student Paper Awards at IEEE RADAR 2005 and IEEE RADAR 2006 Conferences, and Student Paper Award in IEEE Convention in Israel, 2006.
Areas of interest
- Adaptive/distributed beamforming
- Array signal processing
- Automatic target recognition
- Detection and estimation theory
- Radar and sonar systems
- Signal processing and equalization in multipath channels
- Statistical signal processing
- Target tracking
