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  • Microwave Inverse Imaging Meets Deep Learning

    Tue, Mar 10, 2020 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Uday Khankhoje, Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras

    Talk Title: Microwave Inverse Imaging Meets Deep Learning

    Abstract: In this talk, I will start by motivating the area of inverse microwave imaging -- an area that brings together electromagnetics, signal processing, and data analytics. The objective here is to infer the electrical properties of an object by studying how it scatters electromagnetic fields -- all without making contact, i.e. remotely. The applications are diverse, from breast cancer imaging to microwave remote sensing. At the heart of this problem lies a challenging ill-posed nonlinear optimization problem. I will describe some of the contemporary methods of solving this problem and highlight the challenges faced. Subsequently, I will present some of our recent methods and results, where we have significantly pushed the state of the art by incorporating deep neural networks into existing physics-based algorithms.

    Biography: Uday Khankhoje is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India, since 2016. He received a B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 2005, an M.S. and PhD. degrees from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USA, in 2010, all in Electrical Engineering. He was a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/Caltech) from 2011-2012, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, from 2012-2013, and an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi from 2013-2016. His research interests are in the area of computational electromagnetics and its applications to remote sensing and inverse imaging.



    Host: Prof. Constantine Sideris, csideris@usc.edu

    Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Talyia White

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