{"64611":{"#nid":"64611","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sevgi Gurbuz Wins Best Student Paper Honors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESevgi Gurbuz received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2010 IEEE International Radar Conference, held May 10-14 in Washington, D.C. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA fall 2009 Ph.D. graduate of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech, Ms. Gurbuz wrote this award-winning paper, \u0022Enhanced Detection and Characterization of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nHuman Targets via Non-Linear Phase Modeling,\u0022 with her co-advisors ECE Professor and Associate Chair Doug Williams and Bill Melvin, an adjunct professor in ECE and director of the Sensors and Electromagnetics Laboratory in GTRI. Ms. Gurbuz is now a senior research scientist with the Signal Processing and Remote Sensing Group at TUBITAK Space Technologies Research Institute in Ankara, Turkey.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe problem of human detection with radar may be broken down into two key tasks: 1) detecting the presence of a target and 2) deciding whether or not the target detected is human. Most current research has focused on the latter, overlooking the inherent SNR losses incurred when conventional, linear-phase detectors are applied to human targets. In fact, human targets have a highly non-linear phase history, made unique by the characteristic periodicities of bipedal motion, and differentiable from that of even other animals. This work aims to exploit the results of human modeling and gait analysis to design detectors specifically tailored to approximate as closely as possible the expected return from a human target. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Recent ECE Ph.D. graduate Sevgi Gurbuz received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2010 IEEE International Radar Conference, held May 10-14 in Washington, D.C.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sevgi Gurbuz wins Best Student Paper Award at radar conference."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2010-06-28 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:15","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"64612":{"id":"64612","type":"image","title":"photo of Sevgi Gurbuz","body":null,"created":"1449176753","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:53","changed":"1475894569","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:49","alt":"photo of Sevgi Gurbuz","file":{"fid":"192047","name":"tzw05515.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tzw05515_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tzw05515_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":17207,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tzw05515_0.jpg?itok=wNdHEUms"}}},"media_ids":["64612"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"147","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12113","name":"Bill Melvin"},{"id":"12112","name":"Doug Williams"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"415","name":"Georgia Tech Research Institute"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"171067","name":"Sevgi Gurbuz"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Jackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}