Track 11

Blind Signal Processing


1. Track Chairs:
Prof. Ping Wei, National Key Laboratory on Blind Signal Processing, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Prof. Tianqi Zhang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Prof. Xiaode Lyu, Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Assoc. Prof. Lin Gao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China


2. Track Topics:
Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to:

▪ Blind Multidimensional Signal Processing
▪ Blind Graph Signal Processing
▪ Radio Mapping
▪ Blind Channel Estimation and Identification
▪ Noncooperative Source Detection, Localization and Tracking
▪ Source Feature Extraction and Recognition
▪ Noncooperative Distributed Signal Processing and Information Fusion
▪ Blind Signal Separation
▪ Blind Coding Recognition and Decoding
▪ AI Methods for Blind Signal Processing


3. Introduction of Track Chairs

Prof. Ping Wei, National Key Laboratory on Blind Signal Processing, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Ping Wei received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 1986 and 1989, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in communication and electronic system from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 1996. He is currently a Professor with the School of Information and Communication Engineering, UESTC. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed papers and he served as guest editors for the Electronics. His current research interests include multitarget tracking, information fusion, and array signal processing.



Prof. Tianqi Zhang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Zhang Tianqi, male, born in 1971, received a bachelor's degree in applied physics from Southwest Normal University (now Southwest University) in 1994, and a master's degree in communications and electronic systems from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 1997. He worked in Tianjin NEC Company and Guangdong TCL Company from 1997 to 1999, majors in switch testing, communication terminal development work, received a doctorate degree in circuit and systems from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2003, and a postdoctoral degree in information and communication engineering from Tsinghua University in 2005. Since 2005, he has been engaged in teaching and research work in the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT). Currently, he is a professor, doctoral tutor, signal and information processing discipline leader of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and a doctoral supervisor of signal and information processing discipline at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Director of the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Signal and Information Processing, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, was selected into the "Chongqing University Outstanding Talent Funding Program", the "New Century Outstanding Talent Program of the Ministry of Education" and the "Chongqing Outstanding Youth Fund" program. A total of more than 400 academic papers have been published, of which more than 250 papers have been searched by the SCI/EI database, 42 patents have been applied for (30 authorized), 1 textbook and 3 monographs have been published, and more than 30 public academic exchange reports have been held. Presided over and participated in the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the New Century Excellent Talents Program Fund of the Ministry of Education, the second batch of Chongqing Excellent Talents Funding Program for Higher Education, Chongqing Natural Science Foundation, Chongqing Key Laboratory Construction Program, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications Research Fund He has waited for more than 20 scientific research topics and won 1 second prize of Chongqing Natural Science. He has long-term systematic research on signal and information blind processing, and has trained more than 100 graduate students.



Prof. Xiaode Lyu, Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Xiaode Lyu received his BEng in Electrical Engineering from Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, in 1991, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi'an, in 1997. In 1998, he conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). In 2000, he joined the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), formerly known as the Institute of Electronics. Since 2005, he has been a Professor at AIR. As a Principal Investigator, he has completed several important projects. He has authored more than 50 papers, been granted 10 patents, and supervised over 20 postgraduate students. Additionally, he has authored two monographs on radar and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC). Lyu is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has been awarded the First Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the Second Prize of the National Defense Science and Technology Progress Award. His research interests encompass radar signal processing, passive radar system technology, phased array antenna and applied electromagnetism.



Assoc. Prof. Lin Gao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Assoc. Prof. Lin Gao received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees all in information and communication engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). From 2018 to 2020, he was a postdoc research fellow at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Florence. From 2021 to 2023 he was a lecturer with the School of Information and Communication Engineering of UESTC, where he is now an associate professor. He served as the guest editor for special issues on Remote Sensing, Electronics, Applied Sciences, and he is a TPC member of the FUSION conference. His research interests include statistical signal processing, source localization, multi-sensor multi-target tracking, information fusion and multi-vehicle SLAM.