Russell Kenney is an assistant professor with the University of Oklahoma School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member with the Advanced Radar Research Center. His research interests include radar signal processing, synthetic aperture radar, radar test equipment, state estimation algorithms, and microwave component design.
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07/21/2026 — Adam Eschler successfully defended his M.S. thesis, “A Complete Three-Dimensional Autofocus Pipeline for Multi-Pass Backprojection SAR with Generalized Phase Gradient Autofocus, Registration, and Elevation Phase Calibration.” Congratulations, Adam!
06/05/2026 — Dr. Kenney delivered an invited short lecture at the 16th New England Workshop on Software-Defined Radio (NEWSDR). The lecture was entitled, “Wireless and All-Digital Synchronization of Software-Defined Radios and Radars Using gr:harmonia.”
05/06/2026 — Our project, “Multi-Aperture Optimized Synthetic Aperture Radar Autofocus and Imaging Correction (MOSAIC),” has been funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
04/21/2026 — Jon Knowles presented his paper, “Even-Order Filtering Equalizer Design Considerations,” at the 2026 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technologies Conference (WAMICON).
01/21/2026 — Jon Knowles’s paper, “Generalized Theory and Realization of Reconfigurable Bandpass Filtering Equalizers,” has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.
12/05/2025 — Cody Kieu successfully defended his M.S. thesis, “Digital Synchronization of Software-Defined Radios in a Wireless Distributed Radar Network.” Congratulations, Cody!
10/08/2025 — We presented our paper, “Digital Synchronization of Distributed Radar Networks Using the Unscented Kalman Filter,” at the 2025 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf25).
09/10/2025 — Cody Kieu presented his paper, “gr:harmonia: A GNU Radio-Based Tool for Synchronization of Software-Defined Radios in a Distributed Radar Network,” at the 2025 GNU Radio Conference.
07/17/2025 — Cora DeFrancesco successfully defended her M.S. thesis, “Development of a Star Tracker System for Distributed Navigation.” Congratulations, Cora!
04/15/2025 — Jon Knowles presented his paper, “Design of a Generalized Chebyshev Filter With a Sloped Passband,” at the 2025 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technologies Conference (WAMICON).