RABINDER N. MADAN

RABINDER N. MADAN is a Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research. He received his B.Sc.(Hons) and M.Sc. in Physics from the St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and a Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics from Princeton University. In his current position as Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research, he directs and manages programs in Tracking, Networked Sensors, Information Fusion and Surveillance. In the past he has held faculty positions at the Universities of California, Massachusetts and North Carolina and was a Senior Scientist at Hughes Aircraft Co. His interests and publications are in information sciences, signal processing, communications theory, nonlinear phenomenon, variation and optimization principles, scattering theory and principles of radar. In 1989 he was awarded the IETE J. C. Bose Memorial Award for the best paper in Science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He serves as the Editor-in -Chief of the Journal of the Franklin Institute.

Selected Publications:

• Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Information/Decision Fusion with Engineering Applications, JFI 1999, Vol. 336.

• Book-Chua’s Circuit; A Paradigm for Chaos, World Scientific 1993.

• Maximum Entropy Method and the Design of Linear Phase FIR Filters, IEEE Trans on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 39, 1992.

• Generalized Superperturbation Theory for Scattering, The Physical Review, Vol 173, 1968.

Invited and Plenary talks in India since 2000 at the

• ADCOM Conference, Bhubaneswar, 2001
• HPC Asia Pacific, Bangalore, 2002