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First International Workshop on Pervasive Radars (PerRad)

PerRad is Held in Conjucture with IEEE PerCom'26 Workshops

Workshop Date: March 16 2026, Pisa, Italy

Program

First International Workshop on Pervasive Radars (PerRad)
Monday, March 16th 2026
Venue: TBD
Time Title Speaker/Authors
Session 1
2:00 - 2:10 Welcome Address by Workshop Chairs
2:10-3:10 Keynote: Title <TBD> Prof. Stephan Sigg, Aalto University, Finland
3:10-3:30 Paper-1: HyperEcho: Structured Higher Order Representation for Automotive Radar Semantic Segmentation Abdelwahed Khamis (CSIRO, Australia); Muhammad Umer Ramzan and Usman Ali (GIFT University, Pakistan); Ali Zia (Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence-Future Science Platforms, CSIRO, Australia)
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
Session 2
4:00 - 4:20 Paper-2: A Lightweight Model-Driven 4D Radar Framework for Pervasive Human Detection in Harsh Conditions Zhenan Liu and Amir Khajepour (University of Waterloo, Canada); George Shaker (University of Waterloo & Spark Tech Labs, Canada)
4:20 - 4:40 Paper-3: Raydar: A Ray-Tracing-Driven Framework Enabling Pattern-Based Recognition in ISAC Radar Heetae Jin and Akira Uchiyama (The University of Osaka, Japan)
4:40 - 5:00 Paper-4: Radar-Based Fall Detection for Assisted Living: A Digital-Twin Representation Case Study Sebastian Ratto V, Huy Trinh, Ahmed N. Sayed and Abdelrahman Elbadrawy (University of Waterloo, Canada); Arien Sligar (Ansys Inc., USA); George Shaker (University of Waterloo & Spark Tech Labs, Canada)
Session 3
5:00-6:00 Panel Discussion <TBD> TBD                                                                                                                                    
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Stephan Sigg

Prof. Stephan Sigg is a Professor at Aalto University in the Department of Information and Communications Engineering. His research interests include the design, analysis, and optimization of algorithms for distributed and ubiquitous systems. His work spans proactive computing, distributed adaptive beamforming, context-based secure key generation, and device-free passive activity recognition.

Prof. Sigg is an editorial board member of the Elsevier Journal on Computer Communications and has served as a guest editor for the Springer Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Systems Journal. He has also served on the organizing and technical committees of several prestigious conferences, including IEEE PerCom and ACM UbiComp.