Rate My Professor Ravi Adve

Raviraj Adve is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Born in Bombay, India, he received his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, in 1990 and his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1996. Between 1997 and August 2000, he worked for Research Associates for Defense Conversion Inc. on contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Rome, NY. He joined the faculty at the University of Toronto in August 2000, where he holds the rank of Professor.

Dr. Adve’s research interests include physical layer wireless communications, with particular focus on the role of cooperation in wireless networks, resource allocation, acquiring associated information, and heterogeneous networks, as well as signal processing for radar systems, including waveform diversity, low-complexity space-time adaptive processing algorithms, and resource allocation for distributed radar systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Communication, Information Theory, Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Antennas and Propagation societies. He serves as Vice-chair of the IEEE Radar Systems Panel and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems since 2008, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the IET Transactions on Radar, Sonar and Navigation. Dr. Adve has received multiple teaching awards from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, including the 2017 Fall Undergraduate Teaching Award, the 2011 Spring Undergraduate Teaching Award, the 2008 Spring Undergraduate Teaching Award, the 2004 Spring Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the 2007 Engineering Faculty Career Teaching Award. He also received the 2009 IEEE Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award and Young Radar Engineer of the Year Award, the 2003 Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students/Students Administration Council at the University of Toronto, and the 1997 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Prize from Syracuse University. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of SciTech Publishing for the Radar Systems track.