Goyal Wins NSF Grants
Professor Vivek Goyal was awarded two NSF grants. One award ($240k) will fund research on frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) lidar. Since FMCW lidar’s accuracy depends on carefully-calibrated and highly-complex hardware, its cost tends to be high. With the goal of reducing this cost, Goyal and his team plan to break the methodology down to first principles, developing new algorithms and other strategies that can provide accurate distance and velocity measurements with less stringent hardware requirements and, therefore, reduced cost. The other award ($600k) will focus on exploring properties of long-wave infrared (LWIR) light, which lies beyond the visible spectrum and can be useful for surveillance in extreme light conditions. Goyal plans to explore LWIR use in 3D imaging and remote sensing to measure air temperature and composition, with applications for navigation, monitoring pollution, etc., using both learning-based and physics-based approaches.