S. Unnikrishna Pillai

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Polytechnic University Six Metrotech Center Brooklyn, New York 11201 Tel: (718) 260-3732 Fax: (718) 260-3906/-3136 Email: pillai@hora.poly.edu, pillai@ee.poly.edu Webpage: http://eeweb.poly.edu/pillai
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Personal Info:

Date of Birth: May 6, 1955
Birthplace: Quilon, Kerala, India; (U.S. Citizen)
Married (1987): Indira (Wife), Priya Parvati (Daughter)

Home Address:
432 Harriot Ave., Harrington Park, NJ 07640

Education:

	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ph.D., Systems Engineering, September 1985 Major Field: Array Signal Processing and Spectrum Estimation
	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India M. Tech., Electrical Engineering, August 1982 Major Field: Digital Communication Theory
	Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi, India B. Tech., Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, May 1977.

Current Research Interests:

   Joint Transmitter-Receiver Design in Clutter and Noise
   Adaptive Array Processing for Mobile Communications
   Blind Identification and Deblurring of Blurred Images
   Spectrum Estimation and System Identification
   Stable and Rational Approximation of Nonrational Systems

Professional Experience:

Sept. 1995 - Present	Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York.
Sept. 1998 - July 1999 (also August 2001)	Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York.
Sept.1989 - Aug. 1995	Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York.
Sept. 1985 - Aug. 1989	Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, NY.
Jan. 1978 - July 1980	Deputy Engineer, Radar Division, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bangalore, India.

Publications:

Books:

	S. Unnikrishna Pillai, *Array Signal Processing*, New York: Springer - Verlag, March 1989.
	Unnikrishna Pillai and Theodore I. Shim, *Spectrum Estimation and System Identification*, New York: Springer - Verlag, June 1993.
	Athanasios Papoulis and S. Unnikrishna Pillai, *Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes*, New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., Fourth Edition, November 2001. • See http://www.mhhe.com/engcs/electrical/papoulis/ for lecture notes. • Translated into Chinese by Xi'an Jiaotong University Press, August 2004. • Under translation into Greek.
	S. Unnikrishna Pillai, Ke Yong Li, and Braham Himed, Space Based Radar: Theory and Applications, McGraw Hill Inc., NY, 2008

Areas of Research:

   Space Time Adaptive Processing
   Blind Identification
   Spectrum Estimation
   Image Reconstruction
   Detection and Estimation Theory
   Network Synthesis
   Digital Signal Processing
   Statistical Communication Theory

Graduate Level Teaching:

   Probability Theory
   Stochastic Processes
   Linear Systems
   Detection and Estimation Theory
   Array Signal Processing and Spectrum Estimation
   System Identification
   Digital Signal Processing II
   Information Theory
   Sensor Based Robotics - Kinematics
   Principles of Image Reconstruction

Undergraduate Level Teaching:

Signals, Systems and Transforms
Principles of Communication Systems

Ph.D. Students:

   Youngjik Lee, completed on October 1988.
   Byung Ho Kwon, completed on January 1989.
   Theodore I. Shim, completed on March 1992.
   Won Cheol Lee, completed on May 1994.
   Younglok Kim, completed on December 1997.
   Hyun Seok Oh, completed on August 1999.
   Joseph Boccuzzi, completed on December 2004.
   Seunghun Cha, completed on January 2008.