Andre Tkacenko

Signal Processing Research Group
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Group 332C

Phone:
(626) 399-6833 (Cell)

E-mail:
andre@systems.caltech.edu
andre.tkacenko@gmail.com

Resume: (in pdf form)

I completed both my undergraduate (B.S. 1999) and graduate degrees (M.S. 2001, Ph.D. 2004) at the California Institute of Technology. Under the tutelage of my advisor Prof. P. P. Vaidyanathan, I was a member of the Caltech Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Group from 1999 to 2004. The focus of my doctoral research was the design of optimal realizable signal-adapted filter banks, especially finite impulse response (FIR), paraunitary (PU) types.

Currently, I am a signal analysis engineer for the Signal Processing Research Group (332C) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. My interests and work include the analysis and synthesis of signal processing algorithms with applications in communications, radar, and data compression.

In the third term of 2012, I taught a graduate level special topics course entitled EE 150: Applications of Convex Optimization in Signal Processing and Communications. More information for this class can be found using the associated link.

Ph.D. Thesis

Journal Publications

• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``The role of filter banks in sinusoidal frequency estimation,'' Journal of the Franklin Institute (invited paper), vol. 338, no. 5, pp. 517-547, Aug. 2001.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``A low-complexity eigenfilter design method for channel shortening equalizers for DMT systems,'' IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 1069-1072, Jul. 2003.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``On the eigenfilter design method and its applications: a tutorial,'' IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 497-517, Sep. 2003.
• A. Tkacenko and M. K. Simon, ``Data-Rate Estimation for Autonomous Receiver Operation,'' Interplanetary Network Progress Report, vol. 42-163, pp. 1-27, Nov. 2005.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``Iterative greedy algorithm for solving the FIR paraunitary approximation problem,'' IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 146-160, Jan. 2006.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``On the spectral factor ambiguity of FIR energy compaction filter banks,'' IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 380-385, Jan. 2006.
• A. Tkacenko, ``Modeling the Atmospheric Phase Effects of a Digital Antenna Array Communications System,'' Interplanetary Network Progress Report, vol. 42-164, pp. 1-28, Feb. 15, 2006.
• M. K. Simon and A. Tkacenko, ``An Iterative Information-Reduced Quadriphase-Shift-Keyed Carrier Synchronization Scheme Using Decision Feedback for Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio Applications,'' Interplanetary Network Progress Report, vol. 42-164, pp. 1-22, Feb. 15, 2006.
• M. K. Simon and A. Tkacenko, ``Noncoherent data transition tracking loops for symbol synchronization in digital communcation receivers,'' IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 889-899, May 2006.
• A. Tkacenko, ``Variable Sample Rate Conversion Techniques for the Advanced Receiver,'' Interplanetary Network Progress Report, vol. 42-168, pp. 1-33, Feb. 15, 2007.
• M. Srinivasan, A. Tkacenko, and F. Cheng, ``Improvements to Symbol Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimation for the Block V Receiver,'' Interplantary Network Progress Report, vol. 42-173, pp. 1-25, May 15, 2008.
• N. Lay, M. Lyubarev, A. Tkacenko, M. Srinivasan, K. Andrews, S. Finley, C. Goodhart, and R. Navarro, ``Software Receiver Processing for Deep Space Telemetry Applications,'' Interplanetary Network Progress Report, vol. 42-180, pp. 1-8, Feb. 15, 2010.
• K. S. Andrews, A. Argueta, N. E. Lay, M. Lyubarev, E. H. Sigman, M. Srinivasan, and A. Tkacenko, ``Reconfigurable Wideband Ground Receiver Hardware Description and Laboratory Performance,'' Interplanetary Network Progress Report, vol. 42-180, pp. 1-22, Feb. 15, 2010.
• A. Tkacenko and B. I. Erkmen, ``Parameter Estimation Bounds and Preamble Designs for SOQPSK Waveforms,'' Interplanetary Network Progress Report, vol. 42-180, pp. 1-8, Feb. 15, 2010.
• M. Srinivasan, A. Tkacenko, M. Lyubarev, and P. Estabrook, ``Effects of Transmitter Symbol Clock Jitter Upon Ground Receiver Performance,'' Interplanetary Network Progress Report, vol. 42-181, pp. 1-22, May 15, 2010.
• A. Tkacenko, ``Wideband Power Amplifier Modeling Incorporating Carrier Frequency Dependent AM/AM and AM/PM Characteristics,'' accepted for publication in the Interplanetary Network Progress Report.
• A. Tkacenko, K. J. Quirk, and M. Srinivasan, ``Deep-Space Optical Transceiver Uplink Detection Analysis,'' accepted for publication in the Interplanetary Network Progress Report.

Conference Proceedings

• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``Sinusoidal frequency estimation using filter banks,'' in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2001), vol. 5, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, May 7-11, 2001, pp. 3089-3092.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``Generalized kurtosis and applications in blind equalization of MIMO channels,'' in Proc. 35th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, vol. 1, Pacific Grove, California, USA, Nov. 4-7, 2001, pp. 742-746.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``Noise optimized eigenfilter design of time-domain equalizers for DMT systems,'' in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2002), New York, New York, USA, Apr. 28 - May 2, 2002, pp. 54-58.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``Eigenfilter design of MIMO equalizers for channel shortening,'' in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2002), vol. 3, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 13-17, 2002, pp. III - 2361-2364.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``A new eigenfilter based method for optimal design of channel shortening equalizers,'' in Proc. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2002), vol. 2, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, May 26-29, 2002, pp. II - 504-507.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``On the least squares approximation model for overdecimated rational nonuniform filter banks and applications,'' in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2003), vol. 6, Hong Kong, China, Apr. 6-10, 2003, pp. VI - 481-484.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``Iterative eigenfilter method for designing optimum overdecimated orthonormal FIR compaction filter banks,'' in Proc. 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, vol. 1, Pacific Grove, California, USA, Nov. 9-12, 2003, pp. 1203-1207.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``Iterative gradient technique for the design of least squares optimal FIR magnitude squared Nyquist filters,'' in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2004), vol. 2, Montreal, Canada, May 17-21, 2004, pp. ii - 981-984.
• A. Tkacenko and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``Iterative algorithm for the design of optimal FIR analysis/synthesis filters for overdecimated filter banks,'' in Proc. 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2004), vol. 3, Vancouver, Canada, May 23-26, 2004, pp. III 325-328.
• A. Tkacenko, ``Spectral properties and interpolation error analysis for variable sample rate conversion systems,'' in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2007), Washington, D.C., USA, Nov. 26-30, 2007, pp. 3123-3127.
• A. Tkacenko, ``Approximate eigenvalue decomposition of para-Hermitian systems through successive FIR paraunitary transformations,'' in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), Dallas, Texas, USA, Mar. 14-19, 2010, pp. 4074-4077.

Links

• FIR PU Filter Bank Optimization Software

Since March 7, 2004 - by Andre Tkacenko
Last Update: October 20, 2012