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PREETI KUMARI

Senior Systems Engineer, Qualcomm Research

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kumaripreeti/

Biography

Preeti Kumari a Senior Systems Engineer at Qualcomm Research, San Diego, CA, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in August, 2020. Before joining Ph.D., she was a Scientist at the Indian Space Research Organization, Ahmedabad, GJ, India.

Her research interests are mainly in analyzing and developing signal processing & system design aspects of radars and wireless communication systems.

During her PhD, she worked on developing a joint system of millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication and radar for automotive applications under the supervision of Prof. Robert Heath, Jr. She has proposed the first millimeter-wave joint communication-radar using the IEEE 802.11ad standard. She was nominated for Best Student Award in the 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2020, Denmark.

Prior 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 the 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 PhD 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. Video available here.
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, 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, J. Choi, N. G. Prelcic, and R. W. Heath Jr., "IEEE 802.11ad-based Radar: An Approach to Joint Vehicular Communication-Radar System," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 3012–3027, April 2018.
P. Kumari, S. Vorobyov, and R. W. Heath Jr, "Virtual Pulse Design For IEEE 802.11ad-Based Joint Communication-Radar", in Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2018.
P. Kumari, M. Eltayeb, and R. W. Heath Jr, "Sparsity-Aware Adaptive Beamforming Design for IEEE 802.11ad-based Joint Communication-Radar", in Proc. of the IEEE Radar Conf., 2018
P. Kumari, K. Mazher, A. Mezghani, and R. W. Heath Jr, "Low-resolution sampling for joint millimeter-wave MIMO communication-radar", in Proc. of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Freiburg, June 2018
P. Kumari, S. Vorobyov, and R. W. Heath Jr, "Adaptive virtual waveform design for millimeter-wave joint communication-radar system", Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2019.
P. Kumari, N. Myers, S. Vorobyov, and R. W. Heath Jr, "A combined waveform-beamforming design for millimeter-wave joint communication-radar", Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, Nov. 2019
P. Kumari, A. Mezghani, and R. W. Heath Jr, "A MIMO joint communication-radar measurement platform at the millimeter-wave band", 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (Nominated for best student paper award), Copenhagen, March 2020
P. Kumari, A. Mezghani, and R. W. Heath, “A low-resolution ADC proof-of-concept development for a fully-digital millimeter-wave joint communication-radar," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoust., Speech and Signal Process., pp. 8619-8623, May 2020.
P. Kumari, A. Mezghani, and R. W. Heath Jr, “JCR70: A low-complexity millimeter-wave proof-of-concept platform for a fully-digital MIMO joint communication-radar," submitted to IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2020.
P. Kumari, N. J. Myers, and R. W. Heath Jr, "Fast and Adaptive Combined Waveform-Beamforming Design for mmWave Automotive Joint Communication-Radar," submitted to IEEE Journal on Sel. Topics in Signal Process. (Spl. issue on Recent Adv. in Automotive Radar Signal Process.), 2020.

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