Krzysztof S. Kulpa is the alumni of the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), with D.Sc. degree from the WUT Department of Electronic Engineering (2009). In 2014, he received the Full Professor title from the President of Poland. Currently, Prof. Kulpa is the head of the Radar Technology Research Group and the Scientific Director of the Defense and Security Research Center at WUT. An IEEE Senior Member, a member of AOC and EuMA, he is a chair of the Microwave and Radiolocation section of the Electronics and Telecommunications section of the Polish Academy of Science. Prof. Kulpa published more than 500 papers in international journals and conferences; authored a book entitled “Signal Processing in Noise Waveform Radar” (Artech House, 2013). Prof. Kulpa regularly serves on the Technical Program Committees of several conferences in the field of radar including the International Radar Symposium IRS (co-chair since 2004), European Synthetic Aperture Radar Conference EUSAR, European Radar Conference EURAD, RADARxx, Fusion, Signal Processing Symposium (chairman since 2003). He is an active participant in NATO’s Science and Technology Organization taking part in SET and SCI panels and Specialist Meetings. In 2005, he was the co-director of NATO’s Advanced Study Institute. Currently, he is the Member at Large of the NATO STO SET panel.

Konrad Jędrzejewski, D.Sc., Ph.D., is a Professor at the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), where he leads the Adaptive Information Processing Systems Team. He received his M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunications (1995) and Ph.D. degree in Electronics (2000), both with honors, from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at WUT and earned his D.Sc. in Electronics in 2014. From 2000 to 2019, he served as an Assistant Professor at WUT and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. Professor Jędrzejewski has participated in numerous national and international R&D projects in the defense, security, and telecommunications. He has served as project manager in several large-scale projects in the radar and navigation fields with many universities, research institutions and enterprises in Poland and abroad. He currently leads a national project aimed at building a radar technology demonstrator for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) surveillance, and also coordinates WUT’s contribution in an international project funded by the European Defence Agency. Since 2020, he has been an active member of NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO) Research Task Groups on Space Domain Awareness. He is also a lecturer in NATO STO Lecture Series in this area.
He is the author of over 130 scientific publications, including papers in prestigious journals such as IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Measurement (Elsevier), Metrology and Measurement Systems, International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technology, Remote Sensing, Sensors, Journal of Clinical Medicine. He is also a co-author of three patents. His research interests encompass statistical and adaptive signal processing, radar signal processing, biomedical signal processing, machine learning, and A/D converters. His recent work has focused on passive radar systems for observing LEO space targets using terrestrial illuminators of opportunity. The results of these studies have been presented at numerous leading international radar conferences, including multiple editions of both the IEEE Radar Conference and the IEEE International Radar Conference series. Notably, he received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Radar Conference 2023 in Sydney for the paper titled “Passive Multistatic Localization of Space Objects Using LOFAR Radio Telescope.”
He has served as Chair (since 2023) and previously as Vice-Chair (2019-2023) of the Poland Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a board member of the Polish Society for Measurement, Automatic Control and Robotics (POLSPAR), a member of the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), an expert for the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR), and Secretary of the Section of Microwaves and Radiolocation of the Committee of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

e-mail: konrad.jedrzejewski@pw.edu.pl

Artur Gromek, PhD, Senior Assistant Professor @ Warsaw Univ. of Tech.: Received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and telecommunication from the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland in 2006. In 2009, he undertook his Ph.D. studies at the electronics faculty of the Warsaw University of Technology. Since 2010, he has been employed at the Warsaw University of Technology. Previously in 2004, he had practices in the Telecommunications Industry Institute. Later on, in 2005, he was employed for several years as a senior engineering expert in the telecommunication commercial companies. Mr. Gromek is the author/coauthor of more than 70 scientific papers. He was involved in many scientific and commercial projects granted from European and National institutions, in several engaged as project manager and principal researcher. His research interests involve modern radar technology i.e. synthetic aperture radar, noise radar, LPI/LPR radar, remote sensing, and electronic warfare. For years he has been a member of the NATO SET research task groups on modern and future radar technology and EW solutions. Artur Gromek was and is a member of the organizing committees of many national and international conferences: MRW, IRS, RadarConf, GASS, SPSympo. He also serves as a reviewer for IEEE journals.

M.Sc. in Electronics (2002); M.Sc. in Mathematics (2004), Ph.D. (2009); Signal Processing, Control Theory; Assistant Professor; Circuit and Signal Theory Division

Marek Rupniewski has received a BSc degree in Mathematics from the University of Warsaw (2001), two MSc degrees: in Computer Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology (2002), and in Mathematics from University of Warsaw (2004). He has earned a PhD degree in Mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2009). During his PhD studies, he spent a trimester at International School for Advanced Studies (Trieste, Italy) and three months at the Laboratory of Mathematics of INSA (Rouen, France).

Prof. Piotr Samczynski received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and PhD and D.Sc. in telecommunications, all from the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Warsaw, Poland, in 2004, 2005, 2010 and 2013, respectively. In 2023, he received a Full Professor degree from the President of the Republic of Poland. Since 2024, he has been the Full Professor at the WUT; In 2018-2023, he has been the Associate Professor at the WUT; and since 2014 – a member of the WUT’s Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology Council. Before this, he was an Assistant professor at WUT (2018-2010), a research assistant at the Przemyslowy Instytut Telekomunikacji S.A. (PIT S.A.) (2010-2005), and the head of PIT’s Radar Signal Processing Department (2010-2009). He is the co-founder of XY-Sensing Ltd., where, since 2018, he has held the CEO position.

Prof. Samczynski’s research interests are in the areas of radar signal processing, passive radar, synthetic aperture radar, and digital signal processing. He is the author of over 280 scientific papers.

Piotr Samczynski was involved in several projects for the European Research Agency (EDA), Polish National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR), and Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MiNSW), including the projects on SAR, ISAR, and passive radars. For his work, he was honored in 2020 with the Bronze Cross of Merit awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland. He was also honoured in 2021 with the Bronze Medal “For merits for the defense of the country” awarded by the Minister of National Defence. The award was for special merits in the development of modern military thought, military technology and professional work, which significantly contributed to the development and strengthening of the defense system of Poland.

Since 2009 he has been a member of several research task groups under the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO). He supports the research work and significantly contributed to numerous Sensors and Electronics Technology (SET) activities, particularly those related to the fields of radar signal processing, modern passive and active radars architectures, and noise radars. In 2018-2022 he was a Chair of the NATO SET-258 research task group (RTG) on Deployable Multiband Passive/Active Radar (DMPAR) deployment and assessment in military scenarios. Since 2023, he has been a Chair of the NATO SET-320 RTG on New Frontiers in Modern Passive Radar. In recognition of his pivotal role in enhancing the SET Programme of Work, Dr. Piotr Samczynski was presented in 2020 with the NATO STO SET Panel Early Career Award. In 2021 and 2023, he received the NATO STO SET Panel Excellence Awards for his excellent contribution as Chair of the APART-GAS Team (2021) and SET-258 Task Group (2023), respectively.

Prof. Samczynski has been an IEEE member since 2003 and an IEEE Senior member since 2016. He is a member of IEEE AES, SP, and GRS Societies, and from 2017 to 2019, Prof. Samczynski was chair of the Polish chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. From 2019 to 2020, he was the vice chairman (AES) of the IEEE Poland APS/AESS/MTTS Joint Chapter. Since 2020, he has been a member of the Board of the Polish Section of the IEEE, handling the position of the Award Chair, and since 2024, he has been handling the position of the Vice-Chairman of the IEEE Polish Section. Since 2020, he is also a member of the Radar System Panel of the IEEE AES Society. He received the IEEE Fred Nathanson Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to passive radar imaging, including systems design, experimentation, and algorithm development, in 2017.