Siyang Cao
- Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-2434
- Electrical & Computer Engr, Rm. 230
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- caos@arizona.edu
Biography
Siyang Cao (S’11–M’15) received the B.S. degree in electronic and information engineering from Xidian University, Shanxi, China, in 2007, the M.S. degree in circuits and system from South China University of Technology, Guangdong, China, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, in 2014. Since August 2015, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. His research interests include radar waveform designs, synthetic aperture radar, commercial radar, and signal processing with emphasis on radar signal. |
Awards
- NIH TrailBlazer Award
- NIH NIBIB, Summer 2022
- 2020 Sony Faculty Innovation Award
- Fall 2021
- Best Paper Award
- IEEE Sensors Letters, Fall 2020
- Elected to Senior Member Grade
- Institute of Electrical &Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Summer 2020
- 2019 Sony Faculty Innovation Award
- Fall 2019
- Finalist Award
- Radar Conference Student Paper Competition, Spring 2014
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2024-25 Courses
-
Apps of Engineering Math
ECE 310 (Spring 2025) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2025) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2024) -
Radar Signal Processing
ECE 538 (Fall 2024) -
Research
ECE 900 (Fall 2024) -
Thesis
ECE 910 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
-
Apps of Engineering Math
ECE 310 (Spring 2024) -
Cmptr Prog Engr Appl
ECE 175 (Spring 2024) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2024) -
Research
ECE 900 (Spring 2024) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2023) -
Radar Signal Processing
ECE 538 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
-
Apps of Engineering Math
ECE 310 (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2023) -
Thesis
ECE 910 (Spring 2023) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2022) -
Radar Signal Processing
ECE 538 (Fall 2022) -
Thesis
ECE 910 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
-
Internship
ECE 593 (Summer I 2022) -
Apps of Engineering Math
ECE 310 (Spring 2022) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2022) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2021) -
Independent Study
ECE 599 (Fall 2021) -
Radar Signal Processing
ECE 538 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
-
Apps of Engineering Math
ECE 310 (Spring 2021) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2021) -
Adv Linear Systems Thry
ECE 501B (Fall 2020) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
-
Apps of Engineering Math
ECE 310 (Spring 2020) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2020) -
Adv Linear Systems Thry
ECE 501B (Fall 2019) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
-
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2019) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2018) -
Radar Signal Processing
ECE 538 (Fall 2018) -
Research
ECE 900 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
-
Apps of Engineering Math
ECE 310 (Spring 2018) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2018) -
Independent Study
ECE 699 (Spring 2018) -
Research
ECE 900 (Spring 2018) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2017) -
Radar Signal Processing
ECE 538 (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
-
Apps of Engineering Math
ECE 310 (Spring 2017) -
Research
ECE 900 (Spring 2017) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Fall 2016) -
Radar Signal Processing
ECE 538 (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
-
Apps of Engineering Math
ECE 310 (Spring 2016) -
Dissertation
ECE 920 (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Chapters
- Cao, S. (2022). Chapter 5 - Radar Tracking and Sensor Fusion. In Modern Radar for Automotive Applications (Radar, Sonar and Navigation). Scitech Publishing.
Journals/Publications
- Cao, S. (2022). Automatic Radar-Camera Dataset Generation for Sensor-Fusion Applications. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
- Cao, S. (2022). mmFall: Fall Detection Using 4-D mmWave Radar and a Hybrid Variational RNN AutoEncoder. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
- Cao, S. (2022). mmPose-NLP: A Natural Language Processing Approach to Precise Skeletal Pose Estimation Using mmWave Radars. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
- Sengupta, A., Cheng, L., & Cao, S. (2022). Robust multiobject tracking using mmwave radar-camera sensor fusion. IEEE Sensors Letters, 6(10), 1--4.
- Madsen, N., & Cao, S. (2021). Modifications to Finite Difference Algorithm for Polynomial Phase Signal Parameter Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 58(1), 496--507.
- Sengupta, A., Jin, F., Zhang, R., & Cao, S. (2020). mm-Pose: Real-Time Human Skeletal Posture Estimation Using mmWave Radars and CNNs. IEEE Sensors Journal, 20(17), 10032-10044.
- Cao, S. (2019). Study on RSS/AOA hybrid localization in life detection in huge disaster situation. Natural Hazards.
- Jin, F., & Cao, S. (2019). Automotive Radar Interference Mitigation Using Adaptive Noise Canceller. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 68(4), 3747--3754.
- Madsen, N., & Cao, S. (2020). Finite Difference Algorithm for Polynomial Phase Signal Parameter Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 56(1), 57-65. doi:10.1109/TAES.2019.2910981
- Zhang, R., & Cao, S. (2019). Extending Reliability of mmWave Radar Tracking and Detection via Fusion With Camera. IEEE Access, 7, 137065--137079.
- Cao, S., Brendel, D., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2018). Transform-Sensing Array Based on Wavelets. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(4), 2408--2423.
- Zhang, R., & Cao, S. (2019). Real-time human motion behavior detection via CNN using mmWave radar (Best Paper Award). IEEE Sensors Letters, 3(2), 1--4.
- Tang, S., Shu, X., Shen, S., Li, Z., & Cao, S. (2017). Study of Portable Infrastructure-free Cellphone Detector for Disaster Relief. Springer Natural Hazards, 86(1), 453-464.
- Zhang, R., & Cao, S. (2017). 3D Imaging Millimeter Wave Circular Synthetic Aperture Radar. MDPI Sensors, 17(6), 1419.1-1419.22.
- Ding, S., Cao, S., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2016). From Image Pair to a Computer Generated Hologram for a Real-world Scene. Applied Optics, 55(27), 7583-7592.
- Cao, S., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2015). A Wavelet-Packet-Based Radar Waveform for High Resolution in Range and Velocity Detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 53(1), 229-243.
- Cao, S., & Zheng, Y. F. (2014). Recent Developments in Radar Waveforms. Journal of Radars, 5(5), 603-621.
- Cao, S., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2014). Wavelet-Based Waveform for Effective Sidelobe Suppression in Radar Signal. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 50(1), 265-284.
Proceedings Publications
- Hu, S., Sengupta, A., & Cao, S. (2022). Stabilizing Skeletal Pose Estimation using mmWave Radar via Dynamic Model and Filtering. In IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI).
- Jin, F., Sengupta, A., Cao, S., & Wu, Y. (2020). MmWave Radar Point Cloud Segmentation using GMM in Multimodal Traffic Monitoring. In 2020 IEEE International Radar Conference (RADAR).
- Sengupta, A., Jin, F., & Cao, S. (2020). NLP based Skeletal Pose Estimation using mmWave Radar Point-Cloud: A Simulation Approach. In 2020 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf20).
- Sengupta, A., Jin, F., Cuevas, R. A., & Cao, S. (2020). A Review of Recent Advancements Including Machine Learning on Synthetic Aperture Radar using Millimeter-Wave Radar. In 2020 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf20).
- Jin, F., Zhang, R., Sengupta, A., Cao, S., Hariri, S., Agarwal, N. K., & Agarwal, S. K. (2019). Multiple patients behavior detection in real-time using mmwave radar and deep cnns. In 2019 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf).
- Sengupta, A., Jin, F., & Cao, S. (2019). A DNN-LSTM based Target Tracking Approach using mmWave Radar and Camera Sensor Fusion. In 2019 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON).
- Zhang, R., & Cao, S. (2019). Non-Synchronized Integration using Multiple Radars via Least Squares Fitting. In 2019 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON).
- Zhang, R., & Cao, S. (2019). Robust and Adaptive Radar Elliptical Density-Based Spatial Clustering and labeling for mmWave Radar Point Cloud Data. In 2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
- Cao, S., & Madsen, N. (2018). Slow-time waveform design for MIMO GMTI radar using CAZAC sequences. In 2018 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf18).
- Cao, S., & Zhang, X. (2018). Soil Moisture Estimation using Automotive Radar. In 2018 ASABE Annual International Meeting.
- Zhang, R., & Cao, S. (2018). Support vector machines for classification of automotive radar interference. In 2018 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf18).
- Zhang, R., & Cao, S. (2017). Compressed sensing for portable millimeter wave 3D imaging radar. In 2017 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf).
- Ding, S., Li, Y., Cao, S., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2016). From RGBD image to hologram. In 2016 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON) and Ohio Innovation Summit (OIS).
- Cao, S. (2015, June). From Phased Array to Holographic Radar. In 2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON).
- Cao, S., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2015). From phased array to holographic radar. In 2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON).
- Ding, S., Cao, S., Li, Y., Zheng, Y., & Ewing, R. L. (2015). Two viewing angles for holographies in radar and light. In 2015 National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON).
- Cao, S. (2014, June). Wavelet-Based Gaussian Waveform for Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar. In NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference.
- Cao, S., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2014). On the doppler effect to the wavelet-based radar waveform. In NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference.
- Cao, S., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2014). S-band radar based on Lyrtech Software Defined Radio. In NAECON 2014 - IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference.
- Cao, S., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2014). Transform sensing of phased array radar. In 2014 IEEE Radar Conference.
- Cao, S., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2014). Wavelet-based radar waveform for moving targets detection. In 2014 IEEE Radar Conference.
- Sikdar, A., Cao, S., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2014). Radar depth association with vision detected vehicles on a highway. In 2014 IEEE Radar Conference.
- Cao, S., Zheng, Y. F., & Ewing, R. L. (2013). Wavelet-based radar waveform adaptable for different operation conditions. In 2013 European Radar Conference.
- Cao, S. (2011, July). Scaling Function Waveform for Effective Side-lobe Suppression in Radar Signal. In Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON).