Work Address Nethken Hall 217 Louisiana Tech University 501 Dan Reneau Drive, Ruston LA 71270 Phone: 318-257-2758 adhikari@latech.edu Kaushallya Adhikari EDUCATION May 2016 January 2012 February 2008 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Thesis: Performance Analysis of Product Processing of Colinear Sparse Arrays. Thesis Supervisor: Prof. John R. Buck University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA M.S. in Electrical Engineering Thesis: Information Theoretic Bounds on Mobile Source Localization in an Urban Environment Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Igal Bilik Tribhuwan University, Nepal B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering PUBLICATIONS K. Adhikari and J.R. Buck, "Spatial Spectral Estimation by Product Processing of a Pair of Colinear Arrays", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pages 2389-2401, vol. 65, issue 9, 2017 K. Adhikari and J.R. Buck, "Gaussian signal detection by extended coprime sensor arrays", IEEE Internationl Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2015 K. Adhikari, J.R. Buck and K.E. Wage, "Extending coprime sensor arrays to achieve the peak side lobe height of a full uniform linear array", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Special Issue on Sparse Sensing in Radar and Sonar Signal Processing; Invited paper), vol. 2014, no. 1, 2014 K. Adhikari, J.R. Buck and K.E. Wage, "Beamforming with extended coprime sensor arrays", Proceedings-IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pages 4183-4186, 2013 K. Adhikari and J.R. Buck, "Lattice theory models for space-time sampling of acoustic signals", Proceedings-ASA Meetings on Acoustics, vol. 19, no. 1, 2013 I. Bilik, K. Adhikari and J.R. Buck, "Shannon Capacity Bound on Mobile Station Localization Accuracy in Urban Environments", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 12, pages 6206-6216, 2011 I. Bilik, K. Adhikari and J.R. Buck, "Information theoretic bounds on mobile source localization in a dense urban environment", IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing, pages 109-112, 2010
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS K. Adhikari, J.R. Buck and K.E. Wage, "Beamforming with Extended Coprime Sensor Arrays," 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, May 2012 K. Adhikari and J.R. Buck, "Gaussian signal detection by extended coprime sensor arrays," 2013 IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop, Oct. 2013 K. Adhikari and J.R. Buck, "Gaussian signal detection by extended coprime sensor arrays," 166 th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Dec. 2013, Invited Talk K. Adhikari and J.R. Buck, "Lattice Theory Models for Space-time Sampling of Acoustic Signals," 165 th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2012 TEACHING SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 2011 Participated in NSF Content Driven Assessment Group which was a full year program that comprised working with 4 other faculty developing acting learning methods and implementing active learning skills 2013 Took the summer class Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering 2008 Participated in three day teachers training organized by Tribhuwan University, Nepal TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS 2
Louisiana Tech University. Fall 2017 Bristol Community College. Fall 2016 Fall 2016 UMass Dartmouth. Fall 2012 Fall 2012 Spring 2012 Course: Electric Circuits 3 (Undergraduate subject ELEN224) Course: Electrical Engineering II (Undergraduate subject EGR232) Course: Electrical Engineering II Lab (Undergraduate subject EGR234) Course: Electrical Circuits (Undergraduate subject EGR132) Course: Engineering Applications of MATLAB (Undergraduate subject EGR204) Course: Introduction to Electric Circuits Lab (Undergraduate subject EGR131) Course: Fundamental Statistics (Undergraduate subject MTH119) Course: Elementary Electrical Engineering (Undergraduate subject ECE212) Course: Discrete-Time Signal Processing (Graduate subject ECE574) Course: Electric Circuits II (Undergraduate subject ECE202) Course: Elementary Electrical Engineering (Undergraduate subject ECE212) Course: Random Signals and Systems I (Graduate subject ECE521) 3
UMass Dartmouth. Course: Random Signals and Systems I (Graduate subject ECE521) Course: Continuous-Time Linear Systems (Undergraduate subject ECE321) Course: Continuous-Time Linear Systems (Undergraduate subject ECE321) Recitation Instructor Course: Random Signals and Noise (Undergraduate subject ECE384) Lecturer: Dr. Igal Bilik Course: Electric Circuits I (Undergraduate subject ECE201) Lecturer: Prof. Robert Helgeland Course: Electric Circuits I (Undergraduate subject ECE201) Lecturer: Prof. Robert Helgeland Course: Electric Circuits II (Undergraduate subject ECE202) Lecturer: Prof. Course: Digital Logic and Computer Design (Undergraduate subject ECE260) Lecturer: David Lincoln Tribhuwan University, Nepal. 2009 Course: Numerical Methods (Undergraduate subject) 2009 Course: Electromagnetics (Undergraduate subject) 2008 Course: OOP with C++ (Undergraduate subject) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2012-Present Coprime Sampling of Underwater Acoustic Signals: Proved new results on coprime sensor arrays including optimal coprime pair, number of sensors required in coprime sensor arrays to match the peak side lobe height of a ULA with the equivalent aperture and detection performance of coprime sensor arrays 2011-2012 Lattice Theory Models for Sampling of Underwater Acoustic Signals 2010-2011 Information Theoretic Bounds on Mobile Source Localization 2010 Super Resolution Technique for Synthetic Aperture Radar 4
WORK EXPERIENCE September 2017-Present September 2016-August 2017 April 2015-January 2016 Summer 2012 Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, MA. Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA. ARCON Corporation, Waltham, MA. Mathworks, Natick, MA. HONORS/AWARDS 2011 Second runner up at three minute thesis competition at UMass Dartmouth 2008 Awarded gold medal by the president of Nepal for achieving the highest female undergraduate GPA among all disciplines 2008 Awarded for achieving the highest female GPA in Engineering at Tribhuwan University 2000 Best student award at Mahendra Bhawan High School, Nepal REFERENCES Prof. John R. Buck Office: Room 324D, DION Building UMass Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747 Phone: 508.999.9237 Email: jbuck@umassd.edu Prof. Dayalan P. Kasilingam Office: Room 213C, SENG Building UMass Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747 Phone: 508.999.8534 Email: dkasilingam@umassd.edu Associate Prof. Kathleen E. Wage Office: Room 3217, Engineering Building George Mason University 4400 University Drive Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone: 703.993.1579 Email: kwage@gmu.edu 5