T7 Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Information FusionLength: 3 hours (half day)
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Presenter: Yaakov Bar-Shalom
Yaakov BarShalom was born on May 11, 1941. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees
from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1963 and 1967 and the Ph.D. degree
from Princeton University in 1970, all in electrical engineering. Currently he is Board of
Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
Marianne E. Klewin Professor in Engineering at the University of Connecticut. His current
research interests are in estimation theory and target tracking and has published over 500
papers and book chapters in these areas and in stochastic adaptive control. He coauthored
and edited 8 books. He has consulted to numerous companies and government agencies,
and originated the series of Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking short courses. He served as
General Chairman of FUSION 2000, President of ISIF in 2000 and 2002 and Vice President
for Publications in 2004-13. Since 1995 he is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE AESS
and has given numerous keynote addresses at major national and international conferences.
He is corecipient of the M. Barry Carlton Award for the best paper in the IEEE Transactions
on Aerospace and Electronic Systems in 1995 and 2000. In 2002 he received the J. Mignona
Data Fusion Award from the DoD JDL Data Fusion Group. He was awarded the 2008
IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications and is listed in "top
authors in engineering" by academic.research.microsoft as the #1 cited author in Aerospace
Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2015 ISIF \Lifetime of Excellence in Information
Fusion" award.
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