GBDTC member wins recent accolade

Professor Andrew Zhang has been recently awarded the prestigious Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award at the recent 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) held in India on April 6-11, 2025. This award honours the authors of journal articles of broad interest that have had substantial impact that over several years on a subject related to the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s technical scope.

The paper, titled “An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Joint Communication and Radar Sensing,” is a comprehensive review of the current state of the art in the field of joint communications and radar sensing (JCR) from a signal processing perspective.  

Joint communication and sensing is a technology that combines radar and communication functionalities into a single system. This integration aims to share hardware, signal processing, and even the transmitted signal, leading to increased spectrum efficiency, reduced size and cost, and improved performance for both communication and sensing. This making it both highly critical in the growing integration between communication and sensing applications. 

This review is considered a seminal work in the field of signal processing for JCR and has been currently cited 717 times in journal articles, book chapters and conference proceedings which is a tribute to Professor Zhang and his knowledge and expertise in this field.