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Jeffrey L. Krolik

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Box 90291, Durham, NC 27708-0291
3465 CIEMAS, Durham, NC 27708

Research Interests


Physics-based and statistical signal processing, sensor array processing, radar and sonar systems, pervasive distributed processing

Selected Grants


AI Institute: Athena: AI-Driven Next-generation Networks at the Edge

ResearchDirector · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2026

Integrating Adaptive Beamforming and Classification for Passive Sonar Detection in Complex Environments

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2023 - 2026

HF Towed-Array Calibration and Beamforming

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by MIT Lincoln Laboratory · 2023 - 2025

UAS Detection, Classification and Tracking with Millimeter-Wave MIMO Radar

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Toyon Research Corporation · 2022 - 2025

NSF AI Institutes Leadership Summit and Virtual Organization Support

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Davis · 2022 - 2025

Enhanced Long-Range Maritime Vessel Classification

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by RDR Tech · 2022 - 2023

Neural-Network Enhanced Radar Surveillance (NNERS)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency · 2020 - 2022

Multi-Aperture Passive Sonar Array Calibration using Ocean Ambient Noise

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2018 - 2021

Non-Recurrent Wideband Continuous Active Sonar

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2012 - 2014

MIMO Radar Signal Processing in Complex Propagation Environments

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2012 - 2013

Active and Passive Acoustic Scatterer Discrimination in an Ocean Waveguide

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2008 - 2011

Multipath Space-Time Adaptive Radar Signal Processing

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2008 - 2011

Autonomous Wide Aperture Cluster for Surveillance (AWACS): Adaptive and Collaborative Signal Processing

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2005 - 2010

RF Time-Reversal Methods for Imaging & Detection

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2006 - 2009

Environmental Exploitation, System Optimization, Signal Processing, and CONOPS for Persistent Littoral Undersea Surveillance

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2008 - 2009

Adaptive Signal Processing for Advanced Over-the-Horizon HF Radars

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2005 - 2008

Wide-Band Multipath Depth Estimation and Partially Adaptive Space-Time Processing for Active Sonar

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2004 - 2008

To Support Distributed Microphone Array Testbed for Speaker Separation and Localization

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lord Foundation of North Carolina · 2007 - 2008

Broadband Passive Sonar Detection by Time-Frequency Striation Processing

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2005 - 2006

Physics-Assisted Space-Time Adaptive Multipath Clutter Mitigation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2002 - 2006

Dynamic Multipath Suppression of Endfire Interference with Towed Passive Sonar Arrays

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2003 - 2005

Entropy-based Adaptive Clutter Mitigation and Frequency-Hopped Altitude Estimation

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Naval Research Laboratory · 2004 - 2005

Efficient Representation of Oceanographic Uncertainty in Passive Sonar Performance Prediction

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2001 - 2004

Space-Time Adaptive Processing and Array Shape Estimation for Towed Active Sonar Arrays

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2002 - 2004

Signal Processing Development and Testing for ROTHR

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2002 - 2003

Clutter Mitigation for Multi-Static Over-the-Horizon HF Radar

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2002 - 2002

Space-Time Matched-field Depth Discrimination for Active and Passive Sonar

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 2000 - 2002

Electromagnetic Matched-field Processing for Over-the-Horizon Radar

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 1999 - 2002

Multi-ping Matched-field Depth Discrimination for Low Frequency Active Sonar

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 1998 - 2000

Multi-Ping Matched Field Depth Discrimination for Low Frequency Active Sonar

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 1998 - 2000

Robust Electromagnetic Sensor Array Processing under Stochastic Propagation Conditions

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 1993 - 1998

Tropospheric Refractivity Estimation Using Radar Clutter from the Sea Surface

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 1994 - 1998

Matched-field Localization of Transient Sources in a Random Ocean Channel

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 1993 - 1996

Matched-field Localization in a Random Ocean Channel

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 1993 - 1996

Matched-Field Source Location in a Random Ocean Channel

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 1993 - 1995

Matched-field Source Localization in a Random Ocean Channel

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 1993 - 1995

External Relationships


  • Echodyne Corp
  • STRAD Corporation

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