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Stavros Vakalis, PhD

Assistant Professor

Office: ENB 361

Staros Vakalis

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Vakalis' research interests lie in the area of applied electromagnetics with an emphasis on wireless millimeter-wave systems, millimeter-wave imaging, radar, sensing, signal processing, and wireless communications.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Vakalis received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens, Greece and the MSc and PhD degrees from Michigan State University, MI, USA. He is currently an assistant professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida.

Teaching

EEL 4560/6560 - Radar Systems
EEL 4513/6592 - Wireless Communications Systems Labpratory

Publications

S. Vakalis and J. A. Nanzer, "Microwave Imaging Using Noise Signals," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 5842-5851, Dec. 2018, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2018.2867433.
S. Vakalis, J. R. Colon-Berrios, D. Chen and J. A. Nanzer, "Three-Dimensional Active Incoherent Millimeter-Wave Imaging," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 2237-2244, May 2023, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2022.3233314.
S. Vakalis, D. Chen and J. A. Nanzer, "Millimeter-Wave Imaging at 652 Frames per Second," in IEEE Journal of Microwaves, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 738-746, July 2021, doi: 10.1109/JMW.2021.3079287.
S. Vakalis, S. Mghabghab and J. A. Nanzer, "Fourier Domain Millimeter-Wave Imaging Using Noncooperative 5G Communications Signals," in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 8872-8882, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TAP.2022.3177267.
S. Vakalis, L. Gong, Y. He, J. Papapolymerou and J. A. Nanzer, "Experimental Demonstration and Calibration of a 16-Element Active Incoherent Millimeter-Wave Imaging Array," in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 68, no. 9, pp. 3804-3813, Sept. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TMTT.2020.2986413.