Balakumar Balasingam
Work experience:
- Postdoctoral fellow, University of Connecticut, USA, Oct. 2010 – present
- Postdoctoral fellow, University of Ottawa, Canada, May. 2008 – Sep. 2010
- Seasonal instructor, Ryerson University, Canada, Jan. 2008 – April 2008
- Teaching assistant, McMaster University, Canada, Jan. 2005 – Dec. 2007 (part-time)
- Research assistant, McMaster University, Canada, Sep. 2002 – Dec. 2007 (part-time)
- Instructor, Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka, Jan. 2002 – July 2002
Education:
- Ph.D. (McMaster University, Canada) - 2008
- M.A.Sc. (McMaster University, Canada) - 2004
- B.Sc.Eng. (University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka) - 2002
Research interests:
- [current] Tracking for non-traditional dynamics: social networks, asymetric threats
- Statistical signal processing: estimation, target tracking, LMS/RLS/Kalman filters, sequential Monte-Carlo methods
- Signal processing for communication: MIMO, OSTBC, OFDM, CDMA, robust channel tracking
- Biomedical signal processing: robust blood pressure monitoring systems
Publications:
- B. Balasingam, Peter Willett, Georgiy Levchuck, and Jared Freeman,
“Exploratory joint and separate tracking of geographically related time series”
submitted, SPIE Conferences: Defense, Security and Sensing (SPIE-2012) , Baltimore, MD.
- B. Balasingam, M. Forouzanfar, M. Bolic, H. Dajani, and V. Groza,
“Performance analysis of cardiovascular parameter tracking algorithms”
IEEE International Conference on Medical Measurements and Applications, pp. 473 - 476, July 2011.
- B. Balasingam, M. Bolic, P. Djuric and J. Miguez,
“Efficient distributed resampling for particle filters”,
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 3772-3775, May 2011.
- B. Balasingam, M. Bolic, S. Shahbazpanahi and T. Kirubarajan,
“Performance analysis of blind adaptive MIMO receivers”,
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 3438-3441, Mar. 2010.
- B. Balasingam and M. Bolic,
“A novel blind adaptive receiver for MIMO-OFDM systems”,
IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, pp. 505-508, Aug. 2009.
- B. Balasingam and M. Bolic,
“Efficient Blind Decoding of MIMO Using Sequential Monte Carlo”,
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, pp. 2453-2456, Apr. 2009.
- B. Balasingam, S. Shahbazpanahi and T. Kirubarajan,
“Joint MIMO channel tracking and symbol decoding using Kalman filtering”,
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 55, No. 12, pp. 5873–5879, Dec. 2007.
- B. Balasingam, S. Shahbazpanahi and T. Kirubarajan,
“Joint MIMO channel tracking and symbol decoding for orthogonal space–time block codes”,
European Signal Processing Conference, Sept. 2006.
- B. Balasingam, S. Shahbazpanahi and T. Kirubarajan,
“A Kalman filtering approach to joint MIMO channel tracking and symbol decoding for orthogonal space time block codes”,
IEEE Workshop on sensor array and multi-channel processing, pp. 244–248, July 2006.
- B. Balasingam, A. Sinha, T. Kirubarajan and J. P. Reilly,
“PHD filtering for tracking an unknown number of sources using an array of sensors”,
IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, pp. 43--48, July 2005.
- B. Balasingam, T. Kirubarajan and A. Gershman,
“Blind adaptive multiuser detection over time-varying time-dispersive channels”,
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 2., pp. 1922--1927, Oct. 2003.
Non-refereed publications:
- B. Balasingam and T. Kirubarajan,
“Joint MIMO Channel Tracking and Symbol Decoding”
in Applications of Kalman filtering, (V. Kordic, ed.) , 2009.
- B. Balasingam,
“Computationally Efficient Receivers for MIMO Systems”
Ph.D. Thesis , McMaster University, Canada, 2008.
- B. Balasingam,
“Blind Adaptive Multiuser Detection Over Time-Varying Time-Dispersive Channels”
M.A.Sc. Thesis , McMaster University, Canada, 2004.
Contact details:
- Office location: ITE -345, UConn
- Phone: (860) 486 5376
- E-mail: bala@engr.uconn.edu