RF sensing at the human-microwave frontier: identity authentication and occupancy sensing
ECE 595 Department Seminar
December 6, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
RF sensing at the human-microwave frontier: identity authentication and occupancy sensing
Speaker: Shekh Md Mahmudul Islam, Duke University
Abstract: Non-contact vital signs monitoring using microwave/millimeter wave radar has great potential to improve healthcare, security, and human-machine interface. This particular talk will provide an overview of the state-of-the-art of non-contact sensing for recognizing humans from their radar-captured respiratory patterns. Additionally, occupancy sensing using microwave radar and its potential impacts will also be discussed in this talk. The talk will also discuss about extraction process of different biomarkers of humans from their radar-captured tiny movement of chest surfaces. Those extracted biomarkers not only can be used for recognizing people but can also be valuable for healthcare interventions. Finally, the talk will conclude with other aspects of RF sensing that the radar remote sensing research group at the University of Dhaka explored so far.
Speaker bio: Shekh Md Mahmudul Islam, received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in December, 2020. He is an associate professor in the electrical and electronic engineering department of the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is presently a postdoctoral fellow in the biomedical engineering department at Duke University. He previously worked as a JSPS invitational fellow at Kyoto University, Japan in 2023. His research interests include radar systems, antenna array signal processing, machine learning, and wearable/RF sensors for healthcare interventions.
Islam is an IEEE senior member and has been an affiliate member of the technical committee of the MTT-28 biological effects and medical applications of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology (MTT) Society. He was a recipient of the Elsevier Building and Environment Journal annual Best Paper award. Islam has been serving as a TPRC member of the IEEE MTT-S IMS conference for about four years. He served as a review editor of IEEE Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, among others.
Faculty host: Dieff Vital
Date posted
Feb 17, 2025
Date updated
Feb 17, 2025