Professor Michail Antoniou BEng, PhD, AFHEA, SMIEEE, FIET

School of Engineering
Chair in RF Sensing Systems

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 7119
Email: m.antoniou@bham.ac.uk

Address: University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Michail is a chair in RF Sensing Systems and Deputy Head of the Microwave Integrated Systems Laboratory (MISL) at the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering. His research interests include radar imaging, distributed radar systems, passive radar and cognitive radar.

Qualifications

IEEE Senior Member, 2018
Associate Fellow of the HEA, 2013
PhD in Radar Systems, University of Birmingham, 2007
BEng (Hons) in Electronic and Communications Engineering, University of Birmingham, 2003

Biography

Michail Antoniou received his BEng (Hons) degree in Electronic and Communications Engineering and his PhD degree in radar systems from the University of Birmingham in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He is currently Professor in RF Sensing Systems at the University of Birmingham, and the Deputy Head of its Microwave Integrated Systems Laboratory. In 2024 he was a visiting Professor with the La Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests include radar imaging, distributed radar systems, passive radar and cognitive radar. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and two book chapters, as well as delivered tutorials, workshops and guest lectures on these topics internationally. He has served as Editorial Board Member for IEEE Sensors, he is a Senior Member of the IEEE (2018), and he Co-Chairs the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Focus Group of the UK Radar Society (EMSIG).

Teaching

Introduction to Communications (Level M)
LM Radar and Satellite Navigation (Level M)

Postgraduate supervision

For PhD enquiries please contact Prof. Antoniou directly on: m.antoniou@bham.ac.uk

Research

Research interests: Radar imaging, distributed radar systems, passive radar and cognitive radar.

Other activities

Member of NATO SET-227 – Cognitive Radar
Member of NATO SETs-250/317 – Multi-dimensional Radar Imaging
Co-Chair, EMSIG SAR Focus Group

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Li, Y, Bekar, A, Martorella, M & Antoniou, M 2026, 'Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-Based, K-Band Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)', IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems.

Yan, L, Jahangir, M, Antoniou, M, Chengpeng, H, Clemente, C & Orlando, D 2025, 'Applications for the EM-based Classifier in Radar Sensor Network', IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 9, no. 3, 7001204. https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2025.3540732

White, D, Jahangir, M, Kumar Mishra, A, Baker, C & Antoniou, M 2025, 'Latent Variable and Classification Performance Analysis of Bird-Drone Spectrograms with Elementary Autoencoder', IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, vol. 3, 10804883, pp. 115-123. https://doi.org/10.1109/TRS.2024.3518842

Bekar, A, Gilliam, C & Antoniou, M 2025, 'Passive SAR Range Resolution Enhancement Using Multiple DVB-T Channels', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2025.3593815

Griffiths, D, Donlan, G, Kannanthara, J, Jahangir, M, Baker, C, Antoniou, M & Singh, Y 2025, 'Phase Synchronization of Bistatic Radar by Exploiting the Urban Scene', IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2025.3526900

Nasso, I, Santi, F, Pastina, D, Bekar, A, Gilliam, C & Antoniou, M 2025, 'Target height estimation and shape reconstruction in multiple high-resolution drone-borne SAR images through shadows extraction', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2025.3570501

Conference contribution

Bekar, A, Bryan, J, Gilliam, C & Antoniou, M 2025, Drone-Based Passive SAR With DVB-T Transmissions. in 2025 IEEE International Radar Conference (RADAR)., 11031676, Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference, IEEE, 2025 IEEE International Radar Conference, RADAR 2025, Atlanta, United States, 3/05/25. https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR52380.2025.11031676

Nasso, I, Santi, F, Pastina, D, Bekar, A, Gilliam, C & Antoniou, M 2025, Exploitation of man-made objects shadows in multi-perspective drone-borne based SAR images: preliminary experimental results. in 2024 International Radar Conference (RADAR). 1 edn, 10994169, IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR58436.2024.10994169

Bekar, A, Gashinova, M, Bekar, M, Martorella, M & Antoniou, M 2025, Oscillator Phase Noise Impact on Monostatic/Bistatic Space-Borne Sub- THz ISAR. in 2025 26th International Radar Symposium, IRS 2025. International Radar Symposium (IRS), IEEE Computer Society Press, 26th International Radar Symposium, IRS 2025, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 21/05/25. https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS64527.2025.11046150

Bryan, J, Bekar, A, Gilliam, C & Antoniou, M 2025, Speckle Reduction in Passive SAR Using Multilook Processing Based on DVB-T Frequency Bands. in 2025 22nd European Radar Conference (EuRAD)., 11234075, European Radar Conference (EURAD), IEEE, pp. 359-362, 2025 22nd European Radar Conference (EuRAD), 24/09/25. https://doi.org/10.23919/EuRAD65285.2025.11234075

White, D, Jahangir, M, Baker, C, Antoniou, M & Thiyagalingam, J 2024, Comparing Optical Transfer Learning and Autoencoder Pretraining for Radar Bird-Drone Discrimination. in 2024 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf24). Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference, IEEE, 2024 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2024, Denver, United States, 6/05/24. https://doi.org/10.1109/RadarConf2458775.2024.10548652

Bae, J, Baker, CJ & Antoniou, M 2024, Evaluation of Cognitive Radar Networks with Joint Adaptive Beamforming for Multipath Effect Mitigation. in 2024 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf24). Proceedings of the IEEE Radar Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2024, Denver, United States, 6/05/24. https://doi.org/10.1109/RadarConf2458775.2024.10548479

Editorial

Martorella, M, Heald, G, Lyons, A & Antoniou, M 2024, 'Guest Editorial: Synthetic aperture in sonar and radar', IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation. https://doi.org/10.1049/rsn2.12649

Paper

Donlan, G, Jahangir, M, Griffiths, D, Antoniou, M & Singh, Y 2025, 'Design and Development of a Transportable Transmitter Node for Drone Detection in an L-Band Multistatic Network', Paper presented at 2025 IEEE Radar Conference, RadarConf 2025, Krakow, Poland, 4/10/25 - 9/10/25. https://doi.org/10.1109/RadarConf2559087.2025.11204988

Griffiths, D, Jahangir, M, Beasley, P, Ritchie, M, Donlan, G, Kannanthara, J, Baker, C, Antoniou, M & Singh, Y 2025, 'Synchronization Performance of L-Band Staring Radar with Different GPSDOs', Paper presented at 2025 IEEE International Radar Conference, RADAR 2025, Atlanta, United States, 3/05/25 - 9/05/25. https://doi.org/10.1109/RADAR52380.2025.11031626

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