Professor Marina Gashinova PhD

Professor Marina Gashinova

Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering
Chair in Pervasive Sensing

Contact details

Address
School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering (EESE)
Dept. of Electronic Electrical and Systems Engineering
Microwave integrated system laboratory (MISL)
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham

Marina's interests span all areas of radar, signal processing and remote sensing with the current focus on: 

  • development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
  • active and passive Terahertz (THz) sensing
  • intelligent sensors and provision of situational awareness for autonomous platforms
  • 3D  image for scene reconstruction with applications ranging from automotive sensing for future autonomous vehicles to detection, tracking and classification of stealth targets
  • multistatic radar
  • algorithms for automatic target classification  and recognition (including CNN and DNN)
  • data fusion and registration
  • cognitive radar
  • passive coherent location systems
  • radio-holography
  • electromagnetic modelling of large scale problems

For the last 6 years Marina has established herself as one of the leaders in the emerging field of THz sensing for short-medium sensing, in particularly for automotive sensing for autonomous cars. As such she is the Terahertz Research Lead for the Microwave Integrated Systems Laboratory (MISL).

Marina is a Principal Investigator and lead coordinator of the consortium of three Universities (University of Birmingham, University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University) and JaguarLandRover on a major grant (£2.5 m) from EPSRC/Jaguar Land Rover on development of Pervasive low-TeraHz and Video Sensing for Car Autonomy and Driver Assistance (PATH CAD). This grant is part of the £11M Towards Autonomy Smart and Connected Control (TASCC) programme involving five consortia for research to develop fully autonomous cars.

Currently she is expanding her research, actively liaising with international leading academic group and industries such as

  • UK Universities of St Andrews, Glasgow, Edinburg, Manchester, UCL, Cranfield and overseas universities Universities of Rome (La Sapienza), Pisa and Warsaw Technical University.
  • DSTL, Leonardo ES, Thales (UK and France), MBDA (UK and France), QuinetiQ(UK), VivaTech (France), ELVA-1 (Sweden/ Russia) and Fraunhofer Institute (FHR Germany).

Marina has a large portfolio of other research grants (See Research) funded from diverse sources (EPSRC, industry, DSTL). 

She is also a chair (with Dr. Francesco Fioranelli, University of Glasgow) of EMSIG focus group MODEST (Modern Trend in Short/Medium Range Sensing). EMSIG is a recently formed UK radar and remote sensing network of academic, industrial and government organizations.

Qualifications

  • Certificate of  Learning and teaching foundation programme, UoB, 2012
  • Certificate of Medici entrepreneurship training programme, UoB, 2011
  • PhD in Physics and Mathematics, St.-Petersburg Electrotechnical University, 2003
  • MMath (First class with Honours) in mathematics, St.-Petersburg State University, 1991

Biography

Marina Gashinova received the MMath from Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia, in 1991 and was awarded a PhD in radiophysics in 2003 from St-Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia.

She carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Birmingham initially on a 1 year NATO/RS honorary research fellowship position and then (2006-2011) as a research fellow in radar and signal processing in a renowned Microwave Integrated System Laboratory (MISL).

Since 2011, she holds an academic position and has been promoted to Professor in Pervasive Sensing in 2018. During time at the UoB Marina has established herself as a leader in several areas of research in radar and remote sensing with largest research project portfolios in:

  • Multi-feature 3D radar and electro-optical (EO) sensing for assisted and autonomous platforms with current main focus on provision of pervasive sensing for L4 and above autonomous cars, and, in general, unmanned airborne and maritime platforms
  • Defence radar and systems: target detection and classifications, active and passive guidance; intelligent perimeter protection, multistatic radar imaging

Teaching

MSc courses

  • Introduction into Communications;
  • Satellite Communication within Satellite, Mobile and Optical Communication module
  • RF remote sensing
  • Random Processes and Signal Processing

Marina is a Coordinator of Group studies in Radar for Physics' students since 2015.

Postgraduate supervision

  • Kalin Kabakchiev, "Maritime Forward Scatter Radar", PhD awarded 2015
  • Nor Ayu, "Surface clutter characterization in Forward Scatter radar", PhD awarded 2017
  • Mohammad Abbas, "Surface identification by polarimetric multi-feature sensors", PhD awarded 2016
  • Donya Jasteh, "THz imaging for automotive applications", PhD awarded 2016
  • Stanislav Hristov, "Radio-Holographic Object Imaging – Target Shadow Profile Reconstruction in inverse problem of Forward Scatter on a moving target" , PhD awarded 2017
  • Alessandro de Luca, "Multistatic active and passive FSR from a moving platform", PhD completed,  Viva in 2018
  • Ben Willets, " THz reflectivities from complex environments", PhD completed, Viva May 2018
  • Emidio Marchetti, " Automatic Image Interpretation for Vehicle Control at Low Terahertz Frequencies "  - 3rd year
  • Dominic Phippen, "3D Terahertz Imaging for Automotive Applications ", PhD, 2nd year
  • Wendi Lin "MicroDoppler signatures for target classifications using CNN" PhD 1st year
  • Shahrzad Minooee Sabery " Propagation and scattering studies for THz radar", PhD – 1st year

Current PhD Opportunities:

  • Low Terahertz Radar for Pedestrian Identification and Tracking – ICASE EPSRC/JLR – 4 years fully sponsored PhD scholarship
  • Passive Radar for maritime surveillance based on utilization of satellite signals -  3.5-years fully funded PhD scholarship
  • Ana Raluca Stroescu "CNN for classification of objects in high resolution radar imagery", MREs sponsored by JLR

Research

Current projects:

Principal Investigator (PI):

  • COgnitive REal time SENsing SystEm for autonomous vehicles- CORE SENSE (CoreSense)) – funded by Innovate UK(£3.4M total project, £1M UoB grant) – project consortium led by JLR, starts in July 2018
  • TASCC (£2.4M total budget): Pervasive low-TeraHz and Video Sensing for Car Autonomy and Driver Assistance (PATH CAD) (EP/N012372/1). 
  • THz imaging (£700K), Jaguar LandRover
  •  Surface Identification Software Development (£0.5M),
  •  Low Terahertz Radar for Pedestrian Identification and Tracking – JLR (£93K).

Last three projects are part of long-term industrial strategic partnership between MISL and JLR on  “Terahertz (THz) sensing”.

Co-Investigator (CoI):

  • Surface Identification Hardware Development on automotive sensing (part of "TeraSEn" programme with JLR funding)
  • “Terahertz Technology for Future Road Vehicles-TRAVEL” , EPSRC
  • Passive Microsatellite Based SAR for Persistent Large area Monitoring (PASSAT II) , DSTL
  • Micromachined Circuits For Terahertz Communications, EPSRC

Past projects:

PI:

  • CEOI Pathfinder Project:Feasibility of Passive Bistatic Geosynchronous Radar using Comsats (PBGeoSAR);  (CEOI, British Aerospace)
  • Passive Radar for Maritime Targets Detections (PAMIR-II) (funded by MBDA France, MBDA UK)
  • Radio-Holographic Object Imaging Technology Based on Forward Scattering Phenomena for Security Sensor Networks, EPSRC

CoI:

  • PAMIR I,  DSTL
  • PASSAT I, DSTL

Other activities

Keynote Speaker:

1. "Development of novel sensing suite based on 150/300/670 GHz high resolution imaging
radar" at the "Advanced Sensor Systems for Automated Driving" conference (Berlin, 28 Nov. – 1 December 2016, Berlin).

2. "From ranging to imaging - future automotive radar sensors for autonomous cars" IET  Colloquium on Antennas, Propagation and RF Technology for Transport and Autonomous Platforms, 2 Febr. 2017,  Austin Court, UK. 

Conferences

Marina is actively involved in the organization of IET/IEEE Radar conferences and International Radar Symposium and dissemination of research results through the most representative research events and conferences: TPC member of International Radar symposium (IRS) 2011-2017, IET RadarCon 2012, 2015, 2017, EuRAD and International Signal Processing Symposium, 2015-2016. She serves as session chair, organizes focused sessions and workshops and gives invited talks.  

Publications

Selected publications for the last 5 years

[1]   F. Norouzian et al., "Low-THz Transmission Through Water-Containing Contaminants on Antenna Radome," in IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 63-75, Jan. 2018.

[2]   L. Daniel, S. Hristov, X. Lyu, A. G. Stove, M. Cherniakov and M. Gashinova, "Design and Validation of a Passive Radar Concept for Ship Detection Using Communication Satellite Signals," in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 3115-3134, Dec. 2017.

[3]   A. G. Stove, M. S. Gashinova, S. Hristov and M. Cherniakov, "Passive Maritime Surveillance Using Satellite Communication Signals," in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 2987-2997, Dec. 2017.

[4]   M. Ritchie et al., "Simultaneous data collection of small maritime targets using multistatic radar and forward scatter radar," in IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 937-945, 6 2017.

[5]   M. Contu et al., "Passive Multifrequency Forward-Scatter Radar Measurements of Airborne Targets Using Broadcasting Signals," in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 1067-1087, June 2017.

[6]   X. Lyu, A. Stove, M. Gashinova and M. Cherniakov, "Ambiguity function of Iridium signal for radar application," in Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 19, pp. 1631-1633, 9 15 2016.

[7]   X. Lyu, A. Stove, M. Gashinova and M. Cherniakov, "Ambiguity function of Inmarsat BGAN signal for radar application," in Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 18, pp. 1557-1559, 9 2 2016.

[8]   D. Jasteh, E. G. Hoare, M. Cherniakov and M. Gashinova, "Experimental Low-Terahertz Radar Image Analysis for Automotive Terrain Sensing," in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 490-494, April 2016.

[9]   D. Pastina et al., "Target motion estimation via multi-node forward scatter radar system," in IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 3-14, 1 2016.

[10]   K. Y. Guo, E. G. Hoare, D. Jasteh, X. Q. Sheng and M. Gashinova, "Road Edge Recognition Using the Stripe Hough Transform From Millimeter-Wave Radar Images," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 825-833, April 2015.

[11]   M. Gashinova, K. Kabakchiev, L. Daniel, E. Hoare, V. Sizov and M. Cherniakov, "Measured forward-scatter sea clutter at near-zero grazing angle: analysis of spectral and statistical properties," in IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 132-141, February 2014.

[12]   M. Gashinova, L. Daniel, V. Sizov, E. Hoare and M. Cherniakov, "Phenomenology of Doppler forward scatter radar for surface targets observation," in IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 422-432, April 2013.

[13]   Gashinova M. , Daniel. L., Hoare E., Sizov, V. Kabakchiev K., Cherniakov M., ‘Signal characterisation and processing in the forward scatter mode of bistatic passive coherent location systems’, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2013: Emerging Radar Technologies, 36 pp 

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