Chair - Mr. Aaron Jones
Aaron M. Jones received the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics with a concentration in computer modeling in 2007, Wright State University. In 2011, he earned the Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, under full Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) scholarship, at Wright State University. Currently he is employed as a Research Physicist at the Sensors Directorate of the AFRL, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH. Previously, he worked as a Sr. Consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, serving in process, project and research engineering faculties and achieving multiple (4) awards of merit. His current areas of interest include radar signal processing, fully adaptive radar, waveform design and optimization and frequency diverse arrays. He has co-authored multiple refereed record papers in the areas of his research interests. He was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Research Grant and has received four awards of merit while at AFRL.
Vice Chair - Dr. Lorenzo Lo Monte
Dr. Lo Monte received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. (both summa cum laude) degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
In 2005, he worked at Rheinmetall, designing phased arrays for anti-aircraft systems. In 2007, as a contractor for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), he conducted research on belowground imaging. In 2008 he worked as the antenna engineer at PCTEL Inc., developing a new family of WiMax antennas generating revenue above $1,000,000 at product launch. Dr. Lo Monte then became a military systems engineer at General Dynamics Information Technology, conducting research on RF Tomography and distributed sensing. He was a visiting scholar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Wright State University, and is currently an adjunct Professor at the University of Dayton. In January 2012 he joined University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI), and became the principal investigator of a contract to modernize the AFRL radar testbeds at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He has subsequently developed an experimental MIMO radar system.
At UDRI, he is leading the design and development of a laboratory aimed at establishing the first UAV verification and validation center for autonomy.This facility will include a chamber capable of emulating the real world RF environment for the UAV platforms under test. He is also partnering with small companies in developing novel radar systems for disparate applications, including the first ultra-low-cost air-traffic-control radar network for export to developing countries. He is also involved in many research topics such as GPR, resonance exploitation in Radar, RF/IR/EO RCS signature analysis, anechoic chamber development, as well as serving on NATO panels.
His expertise is based upon a combination of theory and experiment producing advanced radar system that meets client needs. He has experience in HF-to-THz radar systems design and development. This includes the implementation of monopulse Radar, high power amplification, coherent-on-receive radars, MIMO/multistatic radar, ISAR, GPR, passive radar, RF/IR integration, and waveform diversity concepts. He also has experience in antenna/microwave system design and measurement, computational electromagnetics, inverse scattering, digital signal processing, and electrical & mechanical CAD design.
Academically, Prof. Lo Monte has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and two book chapters. He teaches“Introduction to Radar” and “RF Microwave Laboratory” courses at the University of Dayton. He also developed the first tomographic chamber that uses industrial robotic arms to rapidly distribute sensors in a 3D volume: this chamber is unique worldwide, and provides the community with controlled multistatic datasets for SAR, ISAR, inverse scattering and near-field measurements.
Dr. Lo Monte has been very active in the IEEE community, serving as associate editor for the IEEE Sensors Journal and technical reviewer for more than 10 different IEEE societies. He volunteered for technical panels and organizing committees and served as judge for paper competitions. He also organized special sessions and was appointed as session chair in many transnational conferences.
Secretary and Treasurer - Mr. Michael Callahan
For more than 25 years, as an electronics engineer in AFRL's Sensors Directorate as well as in predecessor organizations, Mr. Callahan has performed modeling and simulation of radar systems, and used and investigated space-time adaptive processing (STAP) algorithms and techniques for processing simulated and measured data from radar systems. Mr. Callahan is also a certified acquisition professional, who performed contract management/monitoring functions for a variety of research and development work which the U.S. Air Force had contracted out to industry and/or academia.
Mr. Callahan is currently pursuing a PhD at Wright State University.