Research interests

• Robust signal processing and adaptive beamforming,
• High-resolution sensor array processing,
• Transceiver design for cognitive radio systems,
• Co-operative communications in relay networks,
• MIMO and multi-antenna communications,
• Space-time coding,
• Multiuser and multicarrier wireless communication systems (3G-4G),
• Convex optimization algorithms for signal processing and communications,
• Statistical signal processing,
• Multidimensional spectral analysis,
• Signal processing for condition monitoring,
• Parameter estimation and detection theory.

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Academic awards

• 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for the 2002 IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing paper co-authored by M. Pesavento and K.M. Wong.
• Heinrich-Kost-Award 2006 of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum for the dissertation entitled: “Fast Algorithms for Multidimensional Harmonic Retrieval”.
• VDE Best Paper Award 2003 of the Information Technology Society (ITG) for the 2002 IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing paper co-authored by M. Pesavento and K.M. Wong.
• Outstanding Thesis Research Award 2001 of the McMaster University for the M.-Eng thesis entitled: “Array Processing in Complicated Environments”.
• Best paper award of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communciations (CrownCom 2010), June 9-11, Cannes, France.

Academic activities

Editorial board member of the EUROASIP SIGNAL PROCESSING JOURNAL

(http://www.elsevier.com/locate/sigpro)

Technical Area Chair (TAC) of Array Processing and Statistical Signal Processing at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers 2012

(http://www.asilomarssc.org)

Guest Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Advanced Signal Processing, Special Issue: Advances in Two-Dimensional Angle-of-Arrival Processing for Localization and Communications

(http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/2011/si.aaoa/)

Local Liaison Officer of the EURASIP for Germany

(http://www.eurasip.org)

Publications

Journal Paper

• Y. Cheng, and M. Pesavento, “Joint Optimization of Source Power Allocation and Distributed Relay Beamforming in Multiuser Peer-to-Peer Relay Networks,” accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, July 2011.
• P. Parvazi, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, “Exploiting multiple shift-invariances in harmonic retrieval: the complete sample cases”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2011.
• N. Bornhorst, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, “Distributed Beamforming for Multi-group Multicasting Relay Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 60, pp. 221-232, January 2012.
• L. Li, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, “Downlink Opportunistic Scheduling with Low-Rate Channel State Feedback: Error Rate Analysis and Optimization of the Feedback Parameters”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 2871-2880, October 2010.
• A.B. Gershman, M. Rübsamen, and M. Pesavento, “One-and two-dimensional direction-of-arrival estimation: An overview of search-free techniques, ”Signal Processing, vol. 90, pp. 1338-1349, May 2010.
• M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker and J.F. Böhme, “Multi-dimensional rank reduction estimator for parametric MIMO channel estimation”, EURASIP, Journal of Appl. Signal Processing, special issue on Advances in Smart Antennas, pp. 1354-1363, August 2004.
• M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman and K.M. Wong, “Direction finding in partly calibrated sensor arrays composed of multiple subarrays”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 50, pp. 2103-2115, September 2002.
• A.B. Gershman, P. Stoica, M. Pesavento and E.G. Larsson, “Stochastic – Cramer-Rao bound for direction estimation in unknown noise fields”, IEE Proc.- Radar, Sonar and Navigation, vol. 149, pp. 2-8, February 2002.
• M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman, and Z.-Q. Luo, “Robust array interpolation using second-order cone programming”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 9, pp. 8-11, January 2002.
• A.B. Gershman, M. Pesavento, and M.G. Amin, “Estimating parameters of multiple wideband polynomial-phase sources in sensor arrays”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, pp. 2924-2934, December 2001.
• M. Pesavento and A.B. Gershman, “Maximum-likelihood direction of arrival estimation in the presence of unknown non-uniform noise”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, pp. 1310-1324, July 2001.
• M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman, and M. Haardt, “Unitary root-MUSIC with a real valued eigendecomposition: a theoretical and experimental performance study, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, pp. 1306-1314, May 2000.

Conference Papers

• X. Zhang, M. N. El Korso, and M. Pesavento, ”Statistical resolution limit for two closely spaced stochastic far eld sources“, submitted to EUSIPCO 2012.
• Xin Wen, Ka L. Law, Samer J. Alabed, and Marius Pesavento, ''Rank-two beaforming for single-group multicasting networks using OSTBC,'' accepted for publication in the 7th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop(SAM), Jun. 2012.
• M. N. El Korso and M. Pesavento, ”Performance analysis for near eld source localization“, accepted for publication in the 7th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop(SAM), Jun. 2012.
• C. Steffens and Marius Pesavento, ”A Physical Layer Average Consensus Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Neworks,“ accepted for publication in the 16th International IEEE/ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2012), Dresden, March 2012.
• A. Schad, and M. Pesavento, ”Time Division Multiple Access Methods in Bi-Directional Cooperative Relay Networks,“ accepted for publication in the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Hoboken, USA, June 2012.
• A. Schad, and M. Pesavento, ”Max-Min Fair Transmit Beamforming for Multi-group Multicasting,“ accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 16th International IEEE/ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2012), Dresden, March 2012.
• J. Zhang, N. Bornhorst, F. Roemer, M. Haardt, M. Pesavento, ”Optimal and Suboptimal Beamforming for Multi-Operator Two-Way Relaying with a MIMO Amplify-and-Forward Relay,“ accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 16th International IEEE/ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas /(WSA 2012), March 2012.
• K.L. Law, I. Wajid, and M. Pesavento, ”Robust Downlink Beamforming in Multi-Group Multicasting using Trace Bounds on the Covariance Mismatches,“ acepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'12), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
• N. Bornhorst, and M. Pesavento, ”Beamforming for Multi-Group Multicasting with Statistical Channel State Information using Second-Order Cone Programming,“ accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'12), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
• Y. Cheng, S. Drewes, A. Philipp, and M. Pesavento, ”Joint Network Optimization and Beamforming for Coordinated Multi-point Transmission using Mixed Integer Programming,“ accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'12), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
• L. Li, and M. Pesavento, ”Link Reliability of Underlay Cognitive Radio: Symbol Error Rate Analysis and Optimal Power Allocation,“ Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management (CogART 2011), invited, Barcelona, Spain, October 2011.
• A. Schad, and M. Pesavento, ”Multiuser bi-directional communications in cooperative relay networks,“ accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP2011), San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2011.
• A. Abdelkader, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, ”Orthogonalization Techniques for Single Group Multicasting in Cooperative Amplify-And-Forward Networks“, accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP2011), San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2011.
• J. Vinogradova, N. Sarmadi, and M. Pesavento, ”Subspace-based Semiblind Channel Estimation Method for Orthogonally Coded MIMO-OFDM Systems“, accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP2011), San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2011.
• S.J. Alabed, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, ”Distributed Differential Space-Time Coding Techniques for Two-Way Wireless Relay Networks,“ accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP2011), San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2011.
• F. Römer, N. Sarmadi, B. Song, M. Haardt, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, ”Tensor-based semi-blind channel estimation for MIMO OSTBC-coded systems“, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, November, 2011.
• L. Li, P.I. Derwin, and M. Pesavento, ”Symbol Error Rate Analysis in Multiuser Underlay Cognitive Radio Systems“, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2011), Toronto, Canada,September 2011.
• N. Sarmadi and M. Pesavento, ”Closed-form blind MIMO channel estimation for OSTBCs: Resolving ambiguities in rotable codes“, Proceedings of the European signal processing conference (EUSIPCO'11), Barcelona, Spain, August 29-September 2, 2011, pp. 644-648.
• P. Parvazi, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, ”Exploiting multiple shift-invariances in harmonic retrieval: the incomplete data case“, IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP'11), Nice, France, June 2011, pp. 729-732.
• P. Parvazi and M. Pesavento, ”A new direction-of-arrival estimation and calibration method for arrays composed of multiple identical subarrays“, accepted for the publication at the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'11), San Francisco, CA, June 2011.
• N. Sarmadi, M. Pesavento, ”Closed-form Blind Channel Estimation for Orthogonally Coded MIMO-OFDM Systems: A Simple Strategy to Resolve Non-Scalar Ambiquities,“ Proceedings of the IEEE International Worshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'11), San Francisco, CA, June 2011, pp. 301-305.
• N. Bornhorst and M. Pesavento, ”An Iterative Convex Approximation Approach for Transmit Beamforming in Multi-Group Multicasting,“ Proceedings of the IEEE International Worshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'11), San Francisco, CA, June 2011, pp. 411-415.
• M. Pesavento, D. Ciochina, and A.B. Gershman, ”Iterative Dual Downlink Beamforming for Cognitive Radio Networks“, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CrownCom 2010), Jund 9-11, Cannes, France.
• L.Li, F.A. Khan, M. Pesavento, and T. Ratnarajah, ”Power Allocation and Beamforming in Overlay Cognitive Radio Systems,“ accepted for publication at the Proceedings of the VTC 2011, Spring, Budapest, Hungary, May 2011.
• L.Li, and M. Pesavento, ”The Sum Capacity of Underlay Cognitive Broadcast Channel,“ submitted to ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM 2011), Yokohama, Japan, May-June 2011.
• I. Wajid, H. Nikolaeva, and M. Pesavento, ”Iterative Robust Downlink Beamforming in Cognitive Radio Networks,“ submitted to ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM 2011), Yokohama, Japan, May-June 2011.
• N. Bornhorst, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, ”Distributed Beamforming for Multiuser Peer-To-Peer and Multi-Group Multicasting Relay Networks,“ Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'11), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011, pp. 2800-2803.
• P. Parvazi, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, ”Direction-of-Arrival estimation and array calibration for partly-calibrated arrays“, accepted for publication at the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'11), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011, pp. 2552-2555.
• N. Sarmadi, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, ”Closed-Form Blind Channel Estimation for Orthogonally Coded MIMO-OFDM Systems: An Algorithm and Uniqueness Study,“ Proceedings of the International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA'11), Aachen, Germany, February 2011, pp. 1-6.
• L. Li, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, ”On Ergodic Sum Capacity of Underlay Cognitive Broadcast Channels“, accepted at the 21st. Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010), Sept. 26-29, Istanbul, Turkey.
• I. Wajid, M. Pesavento, Y.C. Eldar, and A.B. Gershman, ”Robust downlink beamforming for cognitive radio networks“, accepted at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), Dec. 6-10, Miami, FL.
• M. Pesavento, ”Exploiting multiple shift-invariances in harmonic retrieval“, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, (ICASSP'09), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
• M. Pesavento, S. Shahbazpanahi, J.F. Böhme, and A.B. Gershman, ”Exploiting multiple shift invariances in multidimensional harmonic retrieval of damped exponentials“, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'04), vol. 4, pp. 1017-1020, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
• M. Pesavento and J.F. Böhme, ”Rooting versus joint diagonalization in 2-D harmonic retrieval, Proc. Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.
• M. Bühren, M. Pesavento, and J.F. Böhme, “ Virtual array design for array interpolation using differential geometry”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'04), vol. 2, pp. 229-232, Montreal, Canada, May 2004.
• K.N. Mokios, N.D. Sidiropoulos, M. Pesavento, and C.F. Mecklenbräuker, “On 3-D harmonic retrieval for wireless channel sounding”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'04), vol. 2, pp. 229-232, Montreal, Canada, May 2004.
• M. Pesavento, K. Gulati, and J.F. Böhme, “Estimating parameters of two dimensional damped exponential mixture”, Proc. IEEE ISSPIT 2003, pp. 455-458, Darmstadt, Germany, December 2003.
• M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker, and J.F. Böhme, “New results in almost sure identifiability of 2d-harmonic retrieval”, Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, St. Louis, Mi, September 2003.
• M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker, and J.F. Böhme, “MD-harmonic retrieval: Exploiting algebraic structure in parameter estimation and association”, Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, St. Louis, Mi, September 2003.
• M. Bühren, M. Pesavento, and J.F. Böhme, “Virtual array design for array interpolation using differential geometry”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'03), vol. 5, pp. 205-208, Hong Kong, China, April 2003.
• M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker, and J.F. Böhme, “Multi-dimensional harmonic estimation using K-D RARE in application to MIMO channel estimation”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'03), vol. 5, pp. 205-208, Hong Kong, China, April 2003.
• M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker, and J.F. Böhme, “Tree-structured multidimensional RARE for MIMO channel estimation”, COST-273, Meeting No. 6, COST-273 TD(03)020, Barcelona, Spain, January 2003.
• M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker, and J.F. Böhme, “Double-directional channel estimation using MD RARE”, Proc. 36th Asilomar Conference on Signal Systems and Computations, vol. 1, pp. 594-598, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2002.
• M. Pesavento and J.F. Böhme, “Eigenstructure-based azimuth and elevation estimation in sparse uniform rectangular arrays”, Proc. Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 327-331, Washington DC, VA, August 2002.
• M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman, and K.M. Wong, “On uniqueness of direction of arrival estimates using rank reduction estimator (RARE)”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'02), pp. 3021-3024, Orlando, FL, May 2002.
• M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman, K.M. Wong, and J.F. Böhme, “Direction finding in partly calibrated arrays composed of non-identical subarrays: a computationally efficient algorithm for the rank reduction (RARE) estimator”, Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 536-539, Singapore, August 2001.
• M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman, and Z.-Q. Luo, “A robust technique for array interpolation using second-order cone programming”, Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 217-220, Singapore, August 2001.
• M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman, and K.M. Wong, “Direction of arrival estimation in partly calibrated time-varying sensor arrays”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'01), pp. 3005-3008, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2001.
• M. Pesavento and A.B. Gershman, “The stochastic CRB for array processing in unknown noise fields”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'01), pp. 2898-2992, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2001.
• A.B. Gershman, M.G. Amin, and M. Pesavento, “High-resolution sensor array processing in the presence of multiple wideband chirp signals”, Proc. 34th Asilomar Conference on Signal Systems and Computations, invited paper, vol. 1, pp. 41-45, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2000.
• M. Pesavento and A.B. Gershman, “Array processing in the presence of unknown non-uniform sensor noise: a maximum likelihood direction finding algorithm and Cramer-Rao bounds”, Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 78-82, Pocono Manor, PA, August 2000.
• M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman, and M. Haardt, “Sensor array processing using a unitary root-MUSIC direction finding algorithm”, Proc. International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP'00), invited paper, pp. 677-680, Fukuoka, Japan, August 2000.
• A.B. Gershman, M. Pesavento, and M.G. Amin, “Estimating the parameters of multiple wideband chirp signals in sensor arrays”, Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 467-471, Pocono Manor, PA, August 2000.
• M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman, and M. Haardt, “A theoretical and experimental performance study of a root-MUSIC algorithm based on a real-valued eigendecomposition”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2000), vol. 5, pp. 3049-3052, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.

Invited Talks and Tutorials

• 2nd COST 2100 Training School: “MIMO: from theory to implementation”. Title: “LTE Implementation”, March 9-11 2009, Paris, France.
• Plenary of the FemtoForum (www.femtoforum.org), LTE Tutorial part 1 “LTE basics”, June 15-18 2010, Readings, UK.
• FemtoForum Plenary (www.femtoforum.org), LTE Tutorial part 2 “Advanced topics in LTE”, June 15-18 2010, Readings, UK.
• Invited Seminar Talk at the Working Group Optimization of Prof. Dr. Stefan Ulbrich, Title: “Convex Optimization in Communications and Signal Processing”, April 26, 2010, TU Darmstadt.
• Invited Seminar talk at the research group of Andrea Goldsmith, Title: “Cognitive Downlink Beamforming in Femtocells”, March 2011, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
• Invited talk at the Telecommunications Forum of the Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw), Title: “Distributed beamforming in cooperative sensor networks”, October 28, 2011, Vienna, Austria.