Shashank Srinivas Joshil is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Radar Science & Engineering section of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He works on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) signal processing and simulations focusing on tomographic applications.
Shashank completed his PhD in 2022, with research focusing on signal processing, algorithms and simulations for weather radars, radar precipitation mapping at local, regional and global scales. He has worked with many state of the art weather radars which operate at various frequency bands, including the NASA D3R weather radar, AQPI X-band weather radars and CASA X-band weather radars. He served as the chief engineer for the NASA D3R weather radar from 2016 to 2022.
Shashank has also worked on futuristic landing radar simulation tool development and validation, simulations of spaceborne SAR signals during his internships at JPL in 2020 and 2021-2022.
- Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University (2022)
- M.S. Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University (2018)
- B.E. Electronics and Communication Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University, India (2013)
- Radar Signal Processing
- Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR)
- SAR Tomography
- Weather Radars
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2022–present)
- Research Assistant, Colorado State University (2015-2022)
- Certificate of Appreciation from the World Meteorological Organization for outstanding contributions to the WMO ICE-POP 2018 RDP/FDP project.
- Certificate of Appreciation from the Korean Meteorological Administration for dedicated efforts and contributions to the ICE-POP 2018 project.
- S. S. Joshil, M. Lavelle, R. Ahmed, I. Seker, E. Loria and B. Hawkins, “Simulation studies of spaceborne SAR tomography at local and global scales”, IEEE TGRS, (under review by co-authors).
- S. S. Joshil, and V. Chandrasekar, "Attenuation Correction in Weather Radars for Snow," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 61, pp. 1-14, 2023.
- S. S. Joshil, V. Chandrasekar and D. B. Wolff, "Overview of the D3R Observations During the ICE-POP Field Campaign With Emphasis on Snow Studies," in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 16, pp. 1668-1677, 2023.
- S. S. Joshil, and C. V. Chandrasekar, “Calibration of D3R Weather Radar Using UAV-Hosted Target,” Remote Sensing, vol. 14, no. 15, p. 3534, Jul. 2022.
- S. S. Joshil, C. M. Nguyen, V. Chandrasekar, J. C. Chiu and Y. Blanchard, “Separating cloud and drizzle signals in radar Doppler spectra using a parametric time domain method”, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 37(9), pp.1669-1680, 2020.
