CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRICULUM VITAE

Vesselin P. Jilkov, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of New Orleans

New Orleans, LA 70148, USA

(504) 280-6179, (504) 280-3950 (Fax),

vjilkov@uno.edu, http://ece.engr.uno.edu/jilkov

Education/Degrees

· B. Sc. and M. Sc. in Mathematics (Operations Research), University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1982 (with honor)

· Ph. D. in the Technical Sciences (Electrical Engineering), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1988

· Senior Research Fellow (Associate Research Professor), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1997

Employment

· Assistant Professor, Department of EE, University of New Orleans, LA, USA, Aug. 2003– present

· Visiting Assistant Research Professor, Department of EE, University of New Orleans, LA, USA, 2001– Aug. 2003

· Visiting Research Scholar, Department of EE, University of New Orleans, LA, USA, 1999 -2001

· Senior Research Scientist (Associate Professor), Institute for Parallel Processing (IPP) – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), 1997 – 2001

· Research Scientist (Assistant Professor), IPP – BAS, 1994–1996

· Research Scientist, Institute of Control & Systems Research (ICSR) – BAS, 1993–1994

· Research Scientist, Center for Informatics & Computer Technology (CICT) – BAS, Sofia, 1988–1993

Professional experience

Teaching:

· “Advanced Random Variables and Stochastic Processes”, Graduate course, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans – Fall 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006

· “Optimization Techniques in Engineering”, Graduate course, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans – Spring 2004, Fall 2007

· “Introduction to Digital Signal Processing”, Graduate course, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans – Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Fall 2006

· “Digital Control System Design” Graduate course, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans – Spring 2007

· “Target Tracking”, (with Dr. X. R. Li) Graduate course, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans – Fall 2003

· “Probabilistic Methods of Signal and System Analysis”, Undergraduate course, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans – Spring 2002, Fall 2002, 2003

· “Continuous and Discrete Signal and System Analysis”, Undergraduate course, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans – Spring 2003, 2004

· “Digital System Design”, Undergraduate course, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans – Spring 2006 2007, Fall 2007

· “Electrical Engineering Laboratory, Lab. Course, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans – Spring 2003, Fall 2004

· “Circuits Laboratory, Lab. Course, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans – Spring 2005

· Co-advisor of PhD/MS students:

R. R. Pitre (MS, PhD), 2004-present, A. Bashi (PhD), 2002-present; T. Nguyen (MS, PhD), 2002-present, Jifeng Ru, 2000-2005, Lei Lu (MS), 2001; Cherakuri V. Suresh (MS), 2000

Service as a committee member on 7 PhD defense committees, 29 MS committees, and numerous PhD examination committees

· Advisor: MS students, Technical University of Sofia, 1998

· Adjunct Assistant Professor: Faculty of Mathematics & Informatics, University of Sofia, 1990

Research Areas:

· Target Tracking and Multi-Sensor Data Fusion

· Applied Decision, Estimation and Filtering

· Stochastic Systems and Statistical Inference

· Monte Carlo Methods, Parallel Processing, Optimization

Projects:

· “Fault Detection and Diagnosis (FDD) for Multiple-Mode Systems in the Absence of a Model”, SPAWAR though IST-RC & eVenture, TO12-CLIN05, $125,000, Principal Investigator, 10/2007-10/2008

· “Information Fusion for Target Inference”, ARO W911NF-04-1-0274, Army Research Office, $300,000; Co-Principal Investigator (PI: Prof. X. R Li; Co-PI: Dr. H. Chen), 08/2004-07/2007.

· "CURVE - Coordinated UV Routing in Variable Environments", Navy STTR - Phase II, through Planning Systems Contract #N 68335-05-C-0382, approx. $210,000; Co-Investigator, (PI: Dr. X. R Li, Co-Investigator: Dr. H. Chen) 09/2005-09/2007

· "Integrated Sensing and Data Fusion for Ground Target Surveillance," DoD-DURIP, $158,174, Co-Investigator (PI: Dr. X. R. Li), 2004–2005.

· “CURVE - Coordinated UV Routing in Variable Environments” – Phase I, Navy STTR; $100,000; Co-Investigator, 08/2004-02/2005.

· "Theory and Application of Hybrid Estimation", Research Project, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Orleans, USA, 1999-2001.

· Real-Time Stochastic Hybrid System Estimation, Bulgarian NSF Grant I-801/99 – Principal Investigator

· "PKF and MSDF Research Continuation". R&D Project, ELTA Electronics Ltd., Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), Israel 1994-95 – Key Researcher

· "Multi-Sensor Data Fusion (MSDF)". R&D Project, ELTA Electronics Ltd., Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), Israel 1993 – Key Researcher

· "Parallel Kalman Filter (PKF) for Tracking Maneuvering Targets". R&D Project, ELTA Electronics Ltd., Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), Israel 1993 – Key Researcher.

· Participation in five major projects supported by Bulgarian NSF Grants’ (during 1988-1998), and numerous R&D projects with industry.

Practical Implementations (participation):

· Algorithms & application software (implemented on a parallel processor) for a coastal surveillance radar Multiple Target Tracking (MTT) system (In manufacturing, Bulgaria)

· Algorithms & application software for radar Air Traffic Control (ATC) system (Bulgaria)

· Specialized software library for radar data processing systems' design, simulation and performance evaluation (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Others

Languages: English, Russian, Bulgarian (native)

Professional Affiliation:

Member IEEE, Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society

Member ISIF – International Society of Information Fusion

Member SIAM – Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Phi Beta Delta – Honors Society for International Scholars

Reviewer:

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

AIAA Journal on Guidance, Control and Dynamics

IEE Proceedings on Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Journal of Advances in Information Fusion

Control Engineering Practice

International Journal of Automation and Computing

International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems

Awards:

· Second Prize (Silver Medal), International Mathematical Olympiad IMO’75 (World Championship Mathematics Competition for High School Students), 1975

Publications

Total 72 (1 book, 17 journal articles, 6 articles in edited volumes, 45 conference papers, 3 technical reports)

Ph.D. Dissertation

(D1) V. P. Jilkov. Methods and Algorithms for Radar Data Processing in a Priori Uncertainty, Ph. D. Dissertation, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1988. (In Bulgarian)

Books

(B1) Tz. A. Semerdjiev and V. P. Jilkov, Kalman Filtering Parallel Methods and Algorithms, CLPP - BAS, c/o Jusautor, Sofia, 1991, ISBN 954 8002 05-1. (In Bulgarian)

Journal Articles

(J17) J. Ru, V. P. Jilkov, X. R. Li and A. Bashi, “Detection of Target Maneuvers,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Accepted, June 2007.

(J16) X. R. Li and V. P. Jilkov, “A Survey of Maneuvering Target Tracking, Part V: Multiple-Model Methods,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 41, No. 4, October 2005, pp. 1255-1321.

(J15) X. R. Li, V. P. Jilkov and J. Ru, “Multiple Model Estimation with Variable Structure - Part VI: Expected-Mode Augmentation Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 41, No. 3, July 2005, pp. 853-867.

(J14) Z. Zhao, X. R. Li and V. P. Jilkov, “Best Linear Unbiased Filtering with Nonlinear Measurements for Target Tracking,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 40, No. 4, October 2004, pp.1324-1336.

(J13) X. R. Li and V. P. Jilkov, “Survey of Maneuvering Target Tracking, Part I: Dynamic Models,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 39, No. 4, October 2003, pp. 1333 - 1364

(J12) V. P. Jilkov and X. R. Li, “Bayesian Estimation of Transition Probabilities for Markovian Jump Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 52, No. 6, June 2004, pp.1620-1630

(J11) V. P. Jilkov and X.R. Li, “On the Generalized Input Estimation,” Information & Security, Vol. 9, 2002, pp. 90-96

(J10) Angelova, D., Tz.A. Semerdjiev, V. P. Jilkov, E.A. Semerdjiev, “Application of a Monte Carlo Method for Tracking Maneuvering Target in Clutter,” Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 55 (1-3) (2001) pp. 15-23

(J9) V. P. Jilkov, D. S. Angelova, Tz. A. Semerdjiev, “Design and Comparison of Mode-Set Adaptive IMM Algorithms for Maneuvering Target Tracking,” IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. AES-35, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 343-350.

(J8) Tz. A. Semerdjiev, V. P. Jilkov, L.Mihaylova, “Multiple Model Estimation and Control of Stochastic Systems: A Survey,” Automatics and Informatics, 1999 (In Bulgarian)

(J7) Tz. A. Semerdjiev, V. P. Jilkov and D. S. Angelova, “Target Tracking using Monte-Carlo Simulation,” Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 47 (2-5), 1998, pp. 441-447

(J6) V. P. Jilkov, Tz. A. Semerdjiev “Multiple Hypothesis Tracking using Amplitude Feature Measurements,” Comptes rendus de l'Academie bulgare de Sciences, Tome 49, No. 12, 1996.

(J5) D. S. Angelova, V. P. Jilkov, Tz. A. Semerdjiev, “Performance Evaluation of a Multiple Hypothesis Tracking Algorithm,” Comptes rendus de l'Academie bulgare de Sciences, Tome 49, No. 12, 1996.

(J4) V. P. Jilkov, D. S. Angelova, Tz. A. Semerdjiev, “Multiple Hypothesis Tracking using GPB Filtering,” Comptes rendus de l'Academie bulgare de Sciences, Tome 49, No. 12, 1996.

(J3) D. Angelova, V. P. Jilkov, Tz. A. Semerdjiev, “Tracking Manoeuvring Aircraft by Interacting Multiple Model Filters,” Comptes rendus de l'Academie bulgare de Sciences, Tome 48, No. 12, 1995.

(J2) Tz. A. Semerdjiev, V. P. Jilkov, D. S. Angelova, “Parallel Adaptive Algorithm for Dynamic Object State Filtering,” Comptes rendus de l'Academie bulgare de Sciences, Tome 47, No. 5, 1994.

(J1) V. P. Jilkov, D. S. Angelova, “Design of A Program System for Secondary Radar Data Processing,” Automatics and Informatics, No. 5/6, 1993 (In Bulgarian).

Articles/Chapters in Edited Volumes

(E6) V. P. Jilkov, X.R. Li and D. S. Angelova, “Bayesian Estimation of Transition Probabilities for Markovian Jump Systems by Stochastic Simulation,” In: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2542, 2003, pp. 307 – 315.

(E5) V. P. Jilkov, Tz. A. Semerdjiev, D. S. Angelova, “Monte Carlo Filtering Algorithm for Nonlinear Stochastic Environmental Model,” In: Recent Advances in Numerical Methods and Applications, World Scientific, 1999, pp. 266-274.

(E4) Tz. A. Semerdjiev,, V. P. Jilkov, “State and Parameter Estimation in A Priori Uncertainty,” In: Research Works of Institute “Electron”, Vol. 30, Sofia, Bulgaria,1987, pp. 377-476 (In Bulgarian).

(E3) D. Stancheva, V. P. Jilkov, Tz. A. Semerdjiev, “Multiple-Threshold Maneuver Detector for Tracking a Sea Target by an Alpha-Beta Filter,” In: Research Works of Institute “Electron”, Vol. 30, Sofia, Bulgaria,1987, pp. 363-376 (In Bulgarian).

(E2) Tz. A. Semerdjiev, V. P. Jilkov, “Error Analysis of Discrete Nonlinear Filtering Algorithms,” In: Research Works of The Technical University “A. Kantchev”, Vol. 26, Series “Automatics and Computing”, Russe, Bulgaria, 1984, pp. 41-48 (In Bulgarian).

(E1) Tz. A. Semerdjiev, V. P. Jilkov, “Sensitivity Analysis of a Tracking Algorithm for Freely Falling Ballistic Objects,” In: Research Works of Institute “Electron”, Vol. 20, Sofia, Bulgaria,1983 (In Bulgarian)

Conference Papers

(C45) V. P. Jilkov, X. R. Li and J. Ru, “Modeling Ballistic Target Motion During Boost for Tracking,” In: Proceedings of SPIE 6699 - Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets, August 28-30, 2007, San Diego, CA, USA.

(C44) V. P. Jilkov, Z. Duan, X. R. Li, “State Estimation with Quantized Measurements: Multiple Model Approach,” In: Proc. ICIF’07- International Colloquium on Information Fusion,” August 22-25, 2007, Xi'an, China.

(C43) T. Nguyen, X. R. Li, V. P. Jilkov, H. Chen, N. Rao, “Airborne Plume Localization and Tracking,” In: Proc. ICIF’07- International Colloquium on Information Fusion,” August 22-25, 2007, Xi'an, China

(C42) V. P. Jilkov, X. R. Li, D. DelBalzo,“Best Combination of Multiple Objectives for UAV Search & Track Path Optimization,” In: Proc. 10th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 7-12, 2007, Québec City, Canada.

(C41) V. P. Jilkov, X. R. Li, H. Chen, “Feature Association for Object Tracking,” In: Proc. 9th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 10-13, 2006, Florence, Italy.

(C40) J. Ru, X. R. Li and V. P. Jilkov, “Multiple Model Detection of Target Maneuvers,” In: Proc. of SPIE - Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2005, August 2-4, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA.

(C39) J. Ru, V. P. Jilkov, X. R. Li, “Sequential Detection of Target Maneuvers,” In: Proc. 8th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 25-29, 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

(C38) D. Charalampidis, V. P. Jilkov, T. Nguyen, “Enhanced Image Feature Extraction for Object Tracking,” In: Proc. 8th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 25-29, 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

(C37) R. R. Pitre, V. P. Jilkov, X. R. Li “A Comparative Study of Multiple-Model Algorithms for Maneuvering Target Tracking,” In: Proc. SPIE - Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion and Target Recognition XIV, March 28-30, 2005, Orlando, FL, USA.

(C36) D. Charalampidis, V. P. Jilkov, “Enhanced Image Feature Extraction for Object Tracking,” In: Proc. of the Second Workshop on Information and Systems Technology, Dec. 13, 2004, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.

(C35) X. R. Li and V. P. Jilkov, “A Survey of Maneuvering Target Tracking: Approximate Techniques for Nonlinear Filtering,” In: Proc. SPIE- Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2004, April 13-15, 2004, Orlando, FL, USA, pp. 537-550.

(C34) X. R. Li and V. P. Jilkov, “Overview of Multiple-Model Methods for Maneuvering Target Tracking,” In: Proc. of SPIE- Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2003, August 3-8, 2003, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 200-211.

(C33) Z. Zhao, X. R. Li, and V. P. Jilkov, “Best Linear Unbiased Filtering with Nonlinear Measurements for Target Tracking,” In: Proceedings of SPIE- Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2003, August 3-8, 2003, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 418-429.

(C32) A. Bashi, V. P. Jilkov, X. R. Li and H. Chen, “Distributed Implementations of Particle Filters,” In: Proc. 6th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 8-11, 2003, Cairns, Australia, pp. 1164-1171.

(C31) T. Nguyen, V. P. Jilkov and X. R. Li, “Comparison of Sampling-Based Algorithms for Multisensor Distributed Target Tracking,” In: Proc. 6th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 8-11, 2003, Cairns, Australia, pp. 114-121

(C30) X. R. Li, V. P. Jilkov and J-F. Ru, “Expected-Mode Augmentation for Variable Structure Multiple-Model Estimation,” In: Proc. 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, July 21-26, 2002, Barcelona, Spain.

(C29) X. R. Li, Z. Zhao and V. P. Jilkov, “Estimator's Credibility and Its Measures,” In: Proc. 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, July 21-26, 2002, Barcelona, Spain.

(C28) V. P. Jilkov, X. R. Li and Lei Lu, “Performance Enhancement of IMM Estimation by Smoothing,” In: Proc 5th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 8-11, 2002, Annapolis, Maryland, MD, USA, pp. 713-720.

(C27) X. R. Li, N. Li and V. P. Jilkov, “Sequential Probability Ratio Test for Track Confirmation/Rejection,” In: Proc 5th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 8-11, 2002, Annapolis, MD, USA, pp. 951-958.

(C26) Z. Zhao, X. R. Li, Y. Zhu and V. P. Jilkov, “Optimal linear unbiased filtering with polar measurements for target tracking,” In: Proc 5th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 8-11, 2002, Annapolis, MD, USA, pp. 1527-1534.

(C25) X. R. Li and V. P. Jilkov, “A Survey of Maneuvering Target Tracking, Part IV: Decision-Based Methods,” In: Proc. SPIE- Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2002, April 1-5, 2002, Orlando, FL, USA, pp. 511-534.

(C24) X. R. Li and V. P. Jilkov, “A Survey of Maneuvering Target Tracking III: Measurement Models,” In: Proceedings of SPIE- Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2001, 31 July - 2 August 2001, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 423-446.

(C23) X. R. Li and V. P. Jilkov, “A Survey of Maneuvering Target Tracking II: Ballistic Targets Models,” In: Proceedings of SPIE- Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2001, 31 July - 2 August 2001, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 559-581.