A engineering researcher whose career was propelled forward while earning a PhD at the University of Iowa is being honored for "major contributions in radar signal processing and the integration of sensing and communications."

Kumar Vijay Mishra, a research scientist at the University of Maryland-College Park, was selected for the 2024 IEEE SPS Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award. The award will be presented at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing in Hyderabad, India in April.

Mishra studied in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the mentorship of Anton Kruger, earning a PhD in 2015. Mishra also earned a master’s degree in mathematics at the same time. 

“ECE motivated me to pursue radar signal processing as a career and I want to acknowledge the department while receiving this recognition,” Mishra said in sharing news of the award with the College of Engineering. 

Mishra’s work contributes to the ArtIAMAS (AI and Autonomy for Multi-Agent Systems) program. This cooperative agreement between the Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland supports and stimulates the advancement of science and technology in robotics, systems, and smart devices that work intelligently in cooperation with each other and human actors across multiple domains.