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Short Biography


Fabiola Colone received the laurea degree (B.S.+M.S.) in Telecommunications Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Remote Sensing from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She joined the DIET Dept. of Sapienza University of Rome as a Research Associate in January 2006. From December 2006 to June 2007, she was a Visiting Scientist at the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept. of the University College London, London, UK. She is currently a Full Professor at the Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics of Sapienza University of Rome.

The majority of Dr. Colone’s research activity is devoted to radar systems and signal processing. She has been involved, with scientific responsibility roles, in research projects funded by the European Commission, the European Defence Agency, the Italian Space Agency, the Italian Ministry of Research, and many radar/ICT companies. Her research has been reported in over 160 publications in international technical journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Dr. Colone is co-editor of the book “Radar Countermeasures for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, IET Publisher. She has been co-recipient of the 2018 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation.

Since 2017, she is member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic System Society (AESS) in which she has served as Vice-President for Member Services, and Editor in Chief for the IEEE AESS QEB Newsletters. She is IEEE Senior Member from 2017 and member of the IEEE AESS Radar System Panel from 2019. Dr. Colone is Associate Editor in Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems. She was Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and is member of the Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Electronics and Communications (Elsevier). She served in the organizing committee and in the technical program committee of many international conferences. She was Technical co-Chair of the IEEE 2021 Radar Conference (Atlanta, USA) and of the European Radar Conference EuRAD 2022 (Milan, Italy).

Career

Education

  • Ph.D. degree in Radar Remote Sensing, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (2006). Dissertation: “Target detection and localization from air- or space- borne multichannel radar data”.

  • Laurea degree (B.S.+M.S.) in Communications Engineering (Summa cum Laude), University of Rome "La Sapienza" (2002). Thesis: “Analysis and synthesis of reduced order STAP techniques for the detection of slowly moving targets”.

Positions Held

  • Full Professor at the DIET Dept., University of Rome "La Sapienza" (2022-present).

  • Associate Professor at the DIET Dept., University of Rome "La Sapienza" (2017-2022).

  • Honorary Associate Professor, at the Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London (UCL, London, UK) (2019-present).

  • Visiting Professor at Cranfield University, School of Defence and Security (Shrivenham, Swindon, UK) (2020-present).

  • Assistant Professor at the DIET Dept., University of Rome "La Sapienza" (2010-2017).

  • Honorary Research Associate (Post-Doctoral position) at the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University College London (UCL, London, UK) working on "Passive Radar" (2006-2007).

  • Research Associate at the INFOCOM Dept., University of Rome "La Sapienza"(2006-2010).

Services and Honors

Memberships and Services for Professional Societies

  • Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic System Society (AESS) (2017-present).

  • Vice-President for Member Services of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic System Society (2019-present).

  • Member of the Radar System Panel within the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic System Society (2019-present).

  • Chair of the IEEE AESS Professional Networking and Mentoring Program, an initiative of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) aimed at sustaining the professional development of its young members (2018-2019).

  • IEEE Senior Member.

Participation in editorial boards

  • Associate Editor in Chief for IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems (2022-present).

  • Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2017-2021).

  • Member of the Editorial Board (Area Editor for "Radar Signal Processing") of the International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEÜ) (Elsevier) (2011-present).

  • Editor in Chief delle IEEE AESS Quarterly Email Blast (QEB), la Newletter della IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (2018-2021).

Organisation of scientific workshops and conferences

  • Technical Program Co-Chair of the European Radar Conference 2022, Milan (Italy).

  • Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE Radar Conference 2021, Atlanta (GA, USA).

  • Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2020 IEEE Radar Conference (Florence, Italy), as Special Sessions Co-Chair (2017-present).

  • Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2008 IEEE Radar Conference (Rome, Italy), as Student Forum Co-Chair (2006-2008).

  • Program Area Leader within the Technical Program Committee (TCP) of the 2020 IEEE International Radar Conference, Washington DC (USA).

  • Organizer and Chair of several Special Sessions or Focused Sessions at international conferences.

Honors and Awards

  • Recipient of the 2018 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation for the paper “Experimental results of polarimetric detection schemes for DVB-T-based passive radar”, by Francesca Filippini, Fabiola Colone, Diego Cristallini, Georgia Bournaka.

  • Recipient of the Outstanding Editorial Board Award 2019 for the excellence in the service as Associate Editor for the international journal IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

  • Co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/IET/SEE International Conference on Radar (RADAR 2019), Toulon (France), 23-27 September 2019.

  • Recipient of the "Sapienza Ricerca (Under 40)" award for the research "Green Radar Technology (GRT): passive radar sensors for surveillance applications without EM emissions" (2011).

  • Recipient of the “F. Carassa” award for the paper “Passive radar prototypes for multifrequency target detection” at the GTTI 2007 meeting (Rome, Italy).

  • Co-author of the Best Student Paper awarded at the 2008 IEEE Radar Conference (Rome, Italy): “Performance Analysis of a Multi-Frequency FM Based Passive Bistatic Radar”, by C. Bongioanni, F. Colone, P. Lombardo.

  • Co-author of the paper “Exploiting polarimetric diversity in passive radar: Recent advances and applications” by F. Filippini, F. Colone, awarded at the 1st GTTI Radar and Remote Sensing Workshop 2017 as best oral presentation under 35 (Naples 25-26 May 2017).