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Dr. Nickolas Kingsley to present at 2014 IEEE Radar Conference
Dr. Kingsley will present “Adaptive Amplifier Module Technique to Support Cognitive RF Architectures” at the upcoming 2014 IEEE Radar Conference in Cincinnati, OH on May 21, 2014.
In the conference’s Waveform Agile Radar Sensing and Processing I Session, Dr. Kingsley will introduce a new adaptive amplifier that is capable of significant performance improvements over conventional approaches for a variety of demanding RF applications (e.g., cognitive radio, radar, and electronic warfare). To dramatically reduce SWAP-C of this new device, the module relies on the indigenous compute and scheduling capabilities of the host system. For example, in the case of cognitive radar, the scheduler would signal the adaptive amplifier module with the nature of the signals to be transmitted and the optimal control voltage and tuning network profiles. In this manner, "intelligent adaption" is for the first time extended into the basic analog front-end subsystems.
For more information on the conference, please visit: www.radarcon2014.org.
Author biographies:
Dr. Nickolas Kingsley
Auriga Microwave Director of Engineering
Dr. Kingsley joined Auriga in June 2007. He has served as Principal Investigator on multiple wideband GaN-based amplifier and switch programs for jammers, radar, and communication systems. In April 2012, he was promoted to Director of Engineering to manage all microwave, analog, and software engineers. His interests include wideband, high-power front-end circuitry with enhanced linearity and efficiency. He has been a member of the Technical Program Review Committee for the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) since 2007 and often serves as sub-committee chairman.
Nick received his PhD in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining Auriga, he was a researcher, teaching assistant, and doctoral candidate at Georgia Tech. He was a member of the 2009 IMS Steering Committee in Boston. Nick is an IEEE Senior Member, reviews for more than a dozen publications, and has given talks all over the world. He has published more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and has been referenced more than 420 times per Google Scholar.
Dr. Joseph R. Guerci
Auriga Microwave Industry Advisory Board Member
Dr. Guerci has more than 30 years of experience in advanced technology research and development in government, industrial, and academic settings. His government service included a 7-year term with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in which he held the positions of Program Manager, Deputy Office Director, and finally Director of the Special Projects Office (SPO). In these capacities, Joe was involved in the inception, research, development, execution, and ultimately transition of next generation multidisciplinary defense technologies.
Joe is a recognized leader in the research and development of next generation sensor and electronic warfare systems. In addition to authoring over 100 peer reviewed articles, he is the author of Space-Time Adaptive Processing for Radar (Artech House, 2003), and Cognitive Radar: The Knowledge-Aided Fully Adaptive Approach, (Artech House, 2010). Joe recently received the Warren D. White Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for “Excellence in Radar Adaptive Processing and Waveform Diversity”, and the IEEE Waveform Diversity Person of the Year for 2010 for “For Scientific, Technical, and Executive Leadership Contributions in Making Waveform Diversity a Fielded Technology“.