Focus Period Linköping University 2026
Assistant Professor
Delft university of technology (The Netherlands)
Dr. Raj Thilak Rajan (S’11-M’17-SM’22) is an assistant professor with the Signal Processing Systems (SPS) group, at the faculty of electrical engineering, mathematics and computer science (EEMCS) in the Delft university of technology (TUD) and the Master Coordinator for the Signals and Systems track (MS-EE-S&S). He (co-) directs the Delft Sensor AI Lab, TUD Swarming Lab, Lunar Zebro and the TUD Moonshot program. He received his Ph.D. in 2016 from TUD, and previously obtained his M.Sc. (class first, youngest in class) and B.Sc. (with distinction) in Electronic sciences from University of Pune, India. He has supervised more than 30 graduate students, and his current research team includes 9 PhD candidates and 1 postdoctoral researcher. His team focuses on developing novel statistical machine learning algorithms, with applications to distributed autonomous sensing systems e.g., swarms.
Raj is an IEEE Senior member, Vice-chair of the IEEE SPS ASI (Autonomous Systems Initiative) and a member of technical committees of the IAF (International Astronautical Federation). He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (IEEE-OJSP), and is a reviewer for related journals and conferences.
Over the past 2 decades he has held research positions with diverse responsibilities at IMEC (Eindhoven, 2015-2018), University of Twente (Enschede, 2014-2015) and ASTRON (Dwingeloo, 2008-2014). He was a SSPF fellow (The Netherlands, 2019), INFN fellow (Italy, 2008), MIUR fellow (Italy, 2007), TIFR-VSRP fellow (India, 2005), and is an alumnus of the SSP2019 program from the international space university (ISU). He obtained his University Teaching Qualification (UTQ/BKO) diploma in 2021.