Yongchan Gao

Department of Electronic Engineering

Xidian University

Address: Xi’an, 710071, China

Email: ycgao@xidian.edu.cn

Yongchan Gao, Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University. Her research interests include statistical signal processing, array signal processing, small sample-based signal processing, STAP, estimation and detection theory.

She received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2009 and 2015, respectively. From February 2016 to January 2017, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA. In March 2017, she joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, where she is currently a Full Professor. From November 2018 to February 2019, she was a visiting scholar, with Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy.  Her Current research interests includes Estimation and detection of signals in clutter, Intelligent signal processing for radar systems and Networked radar signal processing. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society. She has published over 40 papers in signal processing journals/conference. She has won academic awards as Xiaomi Young Scholars, Future Women Scientists Program from National Commission of China for UNESCO, Excellent doctoral thesis of Xidian University and so on. She is also the Associate Editor for Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing, and the Editorial Board Member for Journal of Radar.

EDUCATION:

9/2009–12/2015  Ph.D. in Signal and Information Processing，Xidian University

9/2005–7/2009    B.S. in Electrical Engineering，Xidian University

CAREER EXPERIENCE:

10/2020–Present Full Professor, Xidian University, Xi’an, China

3/2017–9/2020    Associated Professor，Xidian University, Xi’an, China

2/2016–2/2017    Research Assistant, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, USA

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Yongchan Gao, Hongbin Li and Braham Himed, Knowledge-aided range-spread target detection for distributed MIMO radar in non-homogeneous environments, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 65(3), pp. 617-627, Feb. 2017.
2. Yongchan Gao, Hongbin Li, and Braham Himed. Adaptive subspace tests for multichannel signal detection in auto-regressive disturbance. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 66(21), pp. 5577-5587, Nov. 2018.
3. Yongchan Gao, Augusto Aubry, and Antonio De Maio. Adaptive target separation. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic systems, 57(1), pp. 293-309, Feb. 2021.
4. Yongchan Gao, Hongbin Li, and Braham Himed, Joint transmit and receive beamforming for hybrid active -passive radar, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 24(6), pp. 779-783, Jun. 2017.
5. Yongchan Gao, Guisheng Liao, Shengqi Zhu, et al. Persymmetric adaptive detectors in homogeneous and partially homogeneous environments. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 62(2), pp. 331-342, Jan. 2014.
6. Jun Liu, Weijian Liu, Yongchan Gao, Shenghua Zhou, Xiang-Gen Xia. Persymmetric adaptive detection of subspace signals: algorithms and performance analysis. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 66(23), pp. 6124-6136, Dec. 2018.
7. Yongchan Gao, Kexuan Cui, Danilo Orlando, Chen Zhang, Gguisheng Liao and Lei Zuo, Outlier Detection Enhancement in Heterogeneous Environments Through a Novel Training Set Selection Framework, IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, vol. 2, pp. 1160-1173, 2024.
8. Kexuan Cui, Yongchan Gao, Zekang Zhang, Lei Zuo, Persymmetric design of jointly detection and bearing estimation for a 2D array radar in training demanding scenarios, Digital Signal Processing, 148, Mar. 2024.
9. Juan Hu, Lei Zuo, Pramod K. Varshney, Yongchan Gao, Resource Allocation for Distributed Multitarget Tracking in Radar Networks With Missing Data, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 72, pp. 718-734, 2024.
10. Juan Hu, Lei Zuo, Pramod K. Varshney, Zhengyu Lan, Yongchan Gao, Collaborative Trajectory Optimization for Multitarget Tracking in Airborne Radar Network With Missing Data, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol.73, pp.1048-1064, 2025.
11. Lei Zuo, Zhengyu Lan, Xiaofei Lu, Yongchan Gao and Linlin. Mao, Joint Transmit–Receive Filter Design With Lower APSL and ICPL to Suppress Interference, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 3673-3687, June 2024.
12. Pucheng Jing, Yongchan Gao, Jun Liu, Lei Zuo, Zhiwen Xu, A bayesian approach for dual-knowledge-aided target detection and performance analysis in heterogeneous environments, 230, 109852, May, 2025.
13. Yongchan Gao, Guisheng Liao, and Weijian Liu. High-resolution radar detection in interference and non-homogeneous noise. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 23(10), pp. 1359-1363, 2016.
14. Yongchan Gao, Guisheng Liao, Shengqi Zhu. A persymmetric GLRT for adaptive detection in compound-Gaussian clutter with random texture. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 20(6), pp. 615-618, 2013.
15. Linlin Mao, Yongchan Gao, Sefeng Yan. Persymmetric Subspace Detection in Structured Interference and Non-homogeneous Disturbance. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 26(6), pp. 928-932, 2019.
16. Yongchan Gao, Hongbing Ji, and Weijian Liu. Persymmetric adaptive subspace detectors for range-spread targets. Digital Signal Processing, 24(6), pp. 779-783, Jun. 2017.
17. Yongchan Gao, Guisheng Liao, and Weijian Liu. Bayesian GLRT tests for distributed target detection in interference and noise. IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, 11(5), pp. 752-758, May. 2017.
18. Yongchan Gao, Guisheng Liao, and Shengqi Zhu. Generalised persymmetric parametric adaptive coherence estimator for multichannel adaptive signal detection. IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, 9(5), pp. 550-558, Jun. 2015.
19. Dan Yang, Hongbing Ji, and Yongchan Gao. A robust D-S fusion algorithm for multi-target multi-sensor with higher reliability, Information Fusion, 47, pp. 32-44,May, 2019.
20. Arnaud Breloy, Guillaume Ginolhac, Yongchan Gao, Frédéric Pascal. MIMO filters based on robust rank-constrained Kronecker covariance matrix estimation, Signal Processing, 187, 108-116, 2021.
21. Nanqi Chen, Hongbing Ji, and Yongchan Gao. Efficient box particle implementation of the multi-sensor GLMB filter in the presence of triple measurement uncertainty, Signal Processing, 162, pp. 307-316,Sep., 2019.
22. Yongchan Gao, Liyan Pan. Multi-rank range-spread target detection method for space/time symmetric array radar under non-Gaussian cutter background, Journal of Radars, 11(5), pp. 765–777, 2022.
23. Liyan Pan, Yongchan Gao, Zhou Ye. Persymmetric adaptive union subspace detection. Frontiers in Signal Processing, 1:1-9, 2021.
24. Yongchan Gao, Linlin Mao, Shengqi Zhu. Subspace detection for range-spread target to suppress interference: exploiting persymmetry in non-homogeneous scenario, Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, 33(1), pp. 60–71,2022.
25. Weijian Liu, Jun Liu, Chengpeng Hao, Yongchan Gao, Multichannel adaptive signal detection: basic theory and literature review. Science China Information Sciences, 65(2), 1201-1303, 2022.
26. Yunfei Fang, Shengqi Zhu, Yongchan Gao. Direction-of-arrival estimation of coherent signals for uniform linear antenna arrays with mutual coupling in unknown non-uniform noise, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 71(2), pp. 1656–1668, 2022.
27. Yunfei Fang, Shengqi Zhu, Yongchan Gao. DOA Estimations with limited snapshots based on improved rank-one correlation model in unknown non-uniform noise, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 70(10), pp. 10308–10319, 2021.
28. Yunfei Fang, Shengqi Zhu, Yongchan Gao. Direction finding by covariance matrix sparse representation with sensor gain and phase uncertainties in unknown non-uniform noise, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 10(1), pp. 175–179, 2021.
29. Xuepan Zhang, Guisheng Liao, Shengqi Zhu, and Yongchan Gao. Geometry-information-aided efficient motion parameter estimation for moving-target imaging and location. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12(1), pp. 155-159, Jan. 2015.
30. Yunfei Fang, Shengqi Zhu, Yongchan Gao. DOA estimation for coherent signals with improved sparse representation in the presence of unknown spatially correlated Gaussian noise, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 69(9), pp. 10059–10069, 2020.
31. Shengqi Zhu, Guisheng Liao, Jingwei Xu, and Yongchan Gao. Robust space-time adaptive processing with colored loading using iterative optimization. Digital Signal Processing, 35, pp. 14-20, Dec. 2014.
32. Weijian Liu, Jun Liu, Yongchan Gao, Guoshi Wang, and Yongliang Wang, Multichannel signal detection in interference and noise when signal mismatch happens, Signal Processing, 166, pp. 1-7,Jan., 2020.
33. Nanqi Chen, Hongbing Ji, and Yongchan Gao. New box particle filter with improved resampling method and extended inclusion volume criteria for multi-target tracking, Radio Engineering, 37, pp. 64-72,Mar, 2019.