Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
| peter.willett@uconn.edu | |
| Phone | (860) 486-2195 |
| Mailing Address | Electrical and Computer Engineering 371 Fairfield Way U-4157 Storrs, Connecticut 06269-4157 |
| Campus | Storrs |
| Link | Department Page |
| Google Scholar Link | |
Brief Bio
Dr. Peter Willett is a prominent figure in the field of electrical engineering and a faculty member at the University of Connecticut.He has been a faculty member at the University of Connecticut's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department since 1986 and a Professor since 1998. He earned his BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto (1982) and his PhD from Princeton University (1986). His primary research areas include statistical signal processing, detection, machine learning, communications, data fusion, and tracking. In addition, he is recognized as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to detection, target tracking, and signal processing.
Dr. Willet joined DARPA in August 2024 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office. He has served as Editor-in-Chief for various IEEE publications, including IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He has also held leadership positions within the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) and the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF). Lastly, he has consulted extensively, focusing on underwater surveillance and missile defense, and has played roles in evaluating Department of Defense programs
- detection theory,
- modelling of nongaussian noise processes
- applications to undersea observations and atmospheric observations
- detection and estimation of harmonic sets
- statistical communication theory
| Tracking and data fusion
Y Bar-Shalom, PK Willett, X Tian
YBS publishing
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| Multicarrier communication over underwater acoustic channels with nonuniform Doppler shifts
B Li, S Zhou, M Stojanovic, L Freitag, P Willett
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 33 (2), 198-209
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| Sparse channel estimation for multicarrier underwater acoustic communication: From subspace methods to compressed sensing
CR Berger, S Zhou, JC Preisig, P Willett
IEEE transactions on signal processing 58 (3), 1708-1721
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| Censoring sensors: A low-communication-rate scheme for distributed detection
C Rago, P Willett, Y Bar-Shalom
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 32 (2), 554-568
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| Signal processing for passive radar using OFDM waveforms
CR Berger, B Demissie, J Heckenbach, P Willett, S Zhou
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 4 (1), 226-238
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| MIMO-OFDM for high-rate underwater acoustic communications
B Li, J Huang, S Zhou, K Ball, M Stojanovic, L Freitag, P Willett
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 34 (4), 634-644
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| Near-optimal multiuser detection in synchronous CDMA using probabilistic data association
J Luo, KR Pattipati, PK Willett, F Hasegawa
IEEE Communications Letters 5 (9), 361-363
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| Detection, synchronization, and Doppler scale estimation with multicarrier waveforms in underwater acoustic communication
SF Mason, CR Berger, S Zhou, P Willett
IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 26 (9), 1638-1649
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| The good, bad and ugly: Distributed detection of a known signal in dependent Gaussian noise
P Willett, PF Swaszek, RS Blum
IEEE Transactions on signal processing 48 (12), 3266-3279
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| Non-uniform Doppler compensation for zero-padded OFDM over fast-varying underwater acoustic channels
B Li, S Zhou, M Stojanovic, L Freitag, P Willett
OCEANS 2007-Europe, 1-6
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| PMHT: Problems and some solutions
P Willett, Y Ruan, R Streit
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 38 (3), 738-754
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| A scalable algorithm for tracking an unknown number of targets using multiple sensors
F Meyer, P Braca, P Willett, F Hlawatsch
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 65 (13), 3478-3493
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| The MIMO radar and jammer games
X Song, P Willett, S Zhou, PB Luh
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 60 (2), 687-699
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| Deep learning methods for vessel trajectory prediction based on recurrent neural networks
S Capobianco, LM Millefiori, N Forti, P Braca, P Willett
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 57 (6), 4329-4346
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| Nonbinary LDPC coding for multicarrier underwater acoustic communication
J Huang, S Zhou, P Willett
IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 26 (9), 1684-1696
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| COVID-19 impact on global maritime mobility
LM Millefiori, P Braca, D Zissis, G Spiliopoulos, S Marano, PK Willett, ...
Scientific reports 11 (1), 18039
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| On the optimality of the likelihood-ratio test for local sensor decision rules in the presence of nonideal channels
B Chen, PK Willett
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 51 (2), 693-699
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| A look at Gaussian mixture reduction algorithms
DF Crouse, P Willett, K Pattipati, L Svensson
14th International Conference on Information Fusion, 1-8
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| Probability hypothesis density filter for multitarget multisensor tracking
O Erdinc, P Willett, Y Bar-Shalom
2005 7th International Conference on Information Fusion 1, 8 pp.
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| Progressive inter-carrier interference equalization for OFDM transmission over time-varying underwater acoustic channels
J Huang, S Zhou, J Huang, CR Berger, P Willett
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 5 (8), 1524-1536
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