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Dr. Sergiy A. Vorobyov
Professor
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Research
- Research Interests: Optimization and Linear Algebra Methods in Signal Processing,
Communications, and Machine Learning; Statistical and Array Signal
Processing; Sparse Signal Processing; Estimation and Detection Theory;
Sampling Theory; Large-Scale, Cooperative and Cognitive Systems
- My
Published and Unpublished Research Works / Software
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Google Scholar Page
- Research
Group
- Research Projects
NEWS!
- September 17,
2026: IEEE
SPS Seminar for the paper X. Wang, E. Ollila, and S.A. Vorobyov,
"Graph
convolutional neural networks sensitivity under probabilistic error model,''
IEEE
Trans. Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 10, pp.
788–803, Nov. 2024. IEEE SPS’s Top 25 downloaded in 2025
from IEEE Trans. Signal and Information Processing over Networks on
IEEE Xplore
- December 19,
2025: Dr. Xinjue Wang has graduated with
Doctoral Degree. The Doctoral Thesis is "Advances
in Robust Signal Processing and Applications". His opponents were
Prof. Paolo Di
Lorenzo and Prof.
Bhavani Shankar Mysore. Congratulations to Xinjue!
- December 2025,
Mr. Andrei Palshin has
graduated with Master Degree. The thesis is "Self-attention
Cell-free MIMO". Congratulations to Andrei!
- September 8,
2025: Prof. Vorobyov has delivered a tutorial "Robust optimization methods and applications
to transmit/receive beamforming in radar and communications" in the 33rd European Signal Processing Conf., EUSIPCO’2025
- September 2025: Mrs. Ruixin Xu has graduated
with Master Degree. The thesis is "Throughput Optimized Channel Smoothing". Congratulations
to Ruixin!
- December 20,
2024: Dr. Kameswara Atchutaram
Kocharlakota has graduated with Doctoral Degree. The Doctoral Thesis is "Resource
Optimization for Massive MIMO Systems". His opponents were Prof. Gayan
Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge and Prof.
Angelo Coluccia. Congratulations to Atchut!
- September 24, 2024: IEEE
SPS Seminar for the paper Y. Huang, H. Fu, S.A.
Vorobyov, and Z.-Q. Luo, "Robust adaptive
beamforming via worst-case SINR maximization with nonconvex uncertainty
sets,'' IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 71, pp. 218–232, Jan. 2023. IEEE
SPS’s Top 25 downloaded articles from Sept. 2022 to Sept. 2023 from IEEE
Trans. Signal Processing on IEEE Xplore
- September 6,
2024: Dr. Endrit Dosti has graduated with
Doctoral Degree. The Doctoral Thesis is "Generalized
Accelerated Optimization Framework for Big Data Processing". His
opponent was Prof. Jean-Christophe Pesquet. Congratulations
to Endrit!
- October 16,
2023: Dr. Majdoddin Esfandiari has graduated
with Doctoral Degree. The Doctoral Thesis
is "Advances and New Applications of
Spectral Analysis". His opponents were Prof. A. Lee
Swindlehurst and Prof.
Umberto Spagnolini. Congratulations
to Majdoddin!
- July 7, 2023: IEEE
SPS Seminar for the paper A.M. Elbir, K.V. Mishra, S.A. Vorobyov, and
R.W. Heath Jr., "Twenty-five years of
advances in beamforming: From convex and nonconvex optimization to
learning techniques," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
invited paper, Special Issue: 75th Anniversary of
Signal Processing Society, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 118–131, June 2023. IEEE
SPS’s Top 25 downloaded article in 2023 for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
on IEEE Xplore
- June 21, 2023:
Dr. Farshad G. Veshki has graduated with
Doctoral Degree. Distinction and Annual Award have been recommended by the opponents Prof. Adrian Basarab
and Prof. Sergio A. Cruces.
The Doctoral Thesis is "Methods for Convolutional Sparse Coding
and Coupled Feature Learning with Applications to Image Fusion". Congratulations
to Farshad!
- June 2023: Our paper H. Zheng, C. Zhou, S.A. Vorobyov, and Z. Shi , "Tensorized neural
layer decomposition for 2D DOA estimation," in Proc.
48th IEEE Int. Conf.
Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE ICASSP'23, Rhodes Island, Greece, June 4–9, 2023 is Top 3% of all
papers accepted at IEEE ICASSP 2023
- January 2019: Dr. Mihai
Iulian Florea has been awarded the Aalto Dissertation Annual Award
of 2019 for his Doctoral Thesis "Constructing
Accelerated Algorithms for Large-Scale Optimization: Framework,
Algorithms, and Applications". Congratulations
to Iulian!
- January 2019: Dr. Yongzhe
Li has been awarded the Aalto Dissertation Annual Award
of 2019 for his Doctoral Thesis "Advances and New
Opportunities in MIMO Radar: Theoretical Analysis and Algorithms".
Congratulations to Yongzhe!
- November 2018: Mr. Markus Yli-Niemi has graduated with Master Degree. The thesis is "Computationally
Efficient Algorithms for Radar Signal Design in Spectrally Busy
Environment". Congratulations to
Markus!
- October 23, 2018: Dr. Mihai
Iulian Florea has graduated with Doctoral Degree. Distinction
and Annual Award have been recommended by the
opponents Prof.
Yurii Nesterov and Prof.
Jean-Christophe Pesquet. The Doctoral Thesis is "Constructing
Accelerated Algorithms for Large-Scale Optimization: Framework,
Algorithms, and Applications". Congratulations
to Iulian!
- October 18, 2018: Dr. Yongzhe
Li has graduated with Doctoral Degree. Distinction and Annual Award have been recommended by the
opponents Prof.
Fulvio Gini and Prof. Christ
Richmond. The Doctoral Thesis is "Advances and
New Opportunities in MIMO Radar: Theoretical Analysis and Algorithms".
Congratulations to Yongzhe!
- September 2018: Mr. Farshad V. Veshki has
graduated with Master
Degree. The thesis is "Supervised
Coupled Dictionary Learning for Multi-Focus Image Fusion". Congratulations to Farshad!
- August 30, 2018: Dr. Karthik
Upadhya has graduated with Doctoral Degree. The
Doctoral Thesis is "Channel
Estimation in Large-Scale Multi-Antenna Systems for 5G and Beyond: Novel
Pilot Structures and Algorithms". His opponents were Prof. Erik G. Larsson and Prof. A. Lee
Swindlehurst. Congratulations
to Karthik!
- Professor Sergiy A. Vorobyov is named an IEEE Fellow active from January 2018. He is being recognized for ‘contributions
to optimization in robust signal processing’. See
Aalto news here.
- From December
2016 to May 2017 Mr. Karthik Upadhya and in Feb.-Mar. 2017 prof. Sergiy
Vorobyov visited the research group of prof. Robert Heath at the
University of Texas, Austin. Keep an eye to our future joint works
- December 15,
2015: Mr. Matthew W. Morency has won the 1st Price Best
Student Paper Award in the 6th IEEE Int.
Workshop Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing,
CAMSAP'2015 for the paper M.W. Morency and S.A. Vorobyov, "An algebraic approach
to rank-constrained beamforming". Congratulations to Matthew!
- December 2015: Mr. Matthew W. Morency
has graduated with Master
Degree. The thesis is "Algebraic and
Adaptive MIMO Radar". Congratulations
to Matthew!
- October 2014: Mr. Yongzhe
Li has graduated with Master Degree. The
thesis is "Ambiguity
Function of the Transmit Beamspace-Based MIMO Radar". Congratulations to Yongzhe!
- June 22, 2014: Prof. Vorobyov has
delivered a tutorial "Tradeoffs
in MIMO radar" in the 8th IEEE Sensor Array
and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, SAM’2014
Awards and Honours
- 2023 paper "Tensorized neural
layer decomposition for 2D DOA estimation" is Top
3% of all papers accepted at IEEE ICASSP 2023
- 2018 elevated to IEEE Fellow
- 2015 1st Price Best Student Paper Award by Mr.
Matthew W. Morency in the 6th
IEEE CAMSAP'2015
- 2012 NSERC
Discovery Accelerator Award, Canada
- 2011 Carl Zeiss Award, Germany
- 2007 Alberta
Ingenuity New Faculty Award, Alberta, Canada
- 2004
IEEE
Signal Processing Society's Best Paper Award for the paper co-authored by S.A. Vorobyov, A.B. Gershman, and Z.-Q. Luo that was published in Feb. 2003 issue of IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing
- 1999 German Academic Exchange Service DAAD
Young Scientist Fellowship, Germany
- 1996-1999 Outstanding Young Scientist (Cabinet of Ministers)
Fellowship, Ukraine
- 1996-1997 Young Scientist Award (Ph.D. student), #
PSU071075, Soros Foundation (ISSEP)
- 1995-1996 Young Scientist Award (Ph.D. student), #
PSU061018, Soros Foundation (ISSEP)
- 1989 Rank 3 in universities' Physics Contest, Ukraine
- 1988 Rank 1 in regional Geometry and Drawing Contest,
Ukraine
Teaching
- ELEC-E5424 [Grad] (Aalto): Convex Optimization (ELEC-E5424
since 2022; it was ELEC-E5422 & E5423 Parts I & II from 2017 to
2021; ELEC-E5420 from 2014 to 2016; and S-88.4400 in 2913); Fall 2026,
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall
2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
- ELEC-E5431 [Grad] (Aalto): Large Scale Data
Analysis; Winter 2027, Winter 2026, Winter 2025, Winter 2024, Winter
2023, Winter 2022, Winter 2021, Winter 2020, Winter 2019, Winter 2017,
Winter 2016
- ELEC-C5310 [Undergrad] (Aalto): Introduction
to Estimation, Detection and Learning; Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall
2023, Winter 2022, Winter 2021, Winter 2020
- ECE740 [Grad] (UofA): Convex
Optimization; Winter 2012, Winter 2011, Summer 2011 (Ilmenau)
- EE338 [Undergrad] (UofA): Discrete
Time Signals and Systems; Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
- EE231 [Undergrad] (UofA): Numerical
Analysis for Electrical and Computer Engineers; Winter 2012, Winter
2011, Winter 2010, Winter 2009, Winter 2008
- EE485 [Undergrad] (UofA): Digital
Communications; Winter 2009, Winter 2008, Winter 2007
- ECE740 [Grad] (UofA): Statistical and
Adaptive Signal Processing; Winter 2010, Winter 2009, Winter 2008
Professional Societies
and Service
- Membership:
o
IEEE Fellow since
2018
o IEEE Senior Member 2006-2017
o IEEE Member 2002-2005
o
EURASIP Member
since 2005
- Technical Committee Member: Signal
Processing for Multisensor Systems (SPMuS), EURASIP
(Member: 2018 – 2023, Associate member: 2024 – 2025)
- Technical Committee Member: Sensor
Array and Multi-Channel Signal Processing (SAM) Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing
Society (2007 - 2012)
- Technical Committee Member: Signal
Processing for Communication and Networking (SPCOM) Technical Committee,
IEEE Signal Processing
Society (2010 - 2016)
- General Co-Char: 31st European Signal Processing Conference
(EUSIPCO) 2023, Helsinki
- Technical Program Co-Chair: IEEE CAMSAP 2023, IEEE SAM 2018,
IEEE CAMSAP 2011, Asilomar
2011
- Tutorial Chair: ISWCS 2013
- Senior Area Editor for IEEE
Signal Processing Letters (2016 - 2020)
- Associate Editor for IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing (2006 - 2010)
- Associate Editor for IEEE
Signal Processing Letters (2007 - 2009)
- Guest
Editor: Special Issue on Tensor Decomposition for Signal Processing and
Machine Learning of IEEE
Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2020-2021
- Guest Editor:
Special Issue on `Advances in DOA Estimation and Source Localization' of International Journal of
Antennas and Propagation, 2017
- Leading Guest Editor: Special Issue on Optimization Techniques in
Wireless Communications of EURASIP
Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2009
- Reviewing for Journals: IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in
Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Signal Processing
Letters, Neurocomputing, EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing, Journal on
Applied Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on
Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE
Communications Letters, EURASIP
Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Journal of the Acoustic
Society of America, etc.