PREETI KUMARI  
Wireless Networking and Communication Group, Department of ECE, The University of Texas-Austin

Biography
Preeti Kumari is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin.
Her research interests are mainly in analyzing and developing signal processing & system design aspects of radars and wireless communication. Currently, she is working on developing a joint system of millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication and radar for automotive applications under the supervision of  Prof. Robert Heath, Jr. 

Research Experience
  • During Summer'18, she interned at Qualcomm, San Diego on mmWave radars.
  • During Summer'16, she interned at Intel Labs, OR on microwave radar imaging.
  • During Summer'15, she interned at National Instruments, Austin on mmWave prototyping.
  • From 2009-2013, she worked as a Scientist in Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
  • From Jul'09-Sep'09, she worked in emotional speech recognition at IIT Bombay.
  • In Summer'08, she interned in speaker recognition systems at IIT Madras.

Publications
Her publications related to the current work on mmWave communication and radar signal processing framework and radar are:
  • P. Kumari, N. G. Prelcic, and R. W. Heath Jr., “Investigating the IEEE 802.11ad Standard for Millimeter Wave Automotive Radar,” in Proc. IEEE Veh. Technol. Conf. (VTC), September 2015.
  • P. Kumari, D. H. N. Nguyen, and R. W. Heath, Jr., "Performance Trade-Off In An Adaptive IEEE 802.11ad Waveform Design For A Joint Automotive Radar And Communication System", in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'17), March 2017.
  • P. Kumari, J. Choi, N. G. Prelcic, and R. W. Heath Jr., "IEEE 802.11ad-based Radar: An Approach to Joint Vehicular Communication-Radar System,"  Accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2017. Available at arXiv.
  • P Kumari, AZ Abdulghafoor, R. W. Heath Jr, and M Monroe, "Testing mmWave radars in the loop", SAE Automotive Engineering Magazine, pp. 28-31, Oct 2017
  • P. Kumari, M. Eltayeb, and R. W. Heath Jr, "Sparsity-Aware Adaptive Beamforming Design for IEEE 802.11ad-based Joint Communication-Radar", Accepted to IEEE Radar Conference, 2018
  • P. Kumari, S. Vorobyov, and R. W. Heath Jr, "Virtual Pulse Design For IEEE 802.11ad-Based Joint Communication-Radar", Accepted to IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2018
  • P. Kumari, K. Mazher, A. Mezghani, and R. W. Heath Jr, "Low Resolution Sampling for Joint Millimeter-Wave MIMO Communication-Radar", Submitted to IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2018