PhD Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas

Hara Madhav
Talasila

Research Engineer  ·  Radar Systems  ·  Radioglaciology  ·  Signal Processing

Twelve years at the intersection of RF hardware and scalable software, designing radar instruments for NASA airborne campaigns from the Arctic to Antarctica, building petabyte-scale signal processing pipelines, and solving a 30-year open problem in radiometric calibration of ice-sounding radar data.

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12+
Years of R&D
4
Polar Deployments(Lead Hardware on 3)
3
Radar Datasets(IRSNO1B)
5
Airborne Platforms(Deployed & Supported)
15+
Publications(2 in prep)
Career

Experience

Click on any role to see the full scope of work, key contributions, and technical details.

Researcher
Center for Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems (CReSIS)
Radiometric Calibration HPC Pipelines MATLAB / Python
Jun 2025 to Present
Calibration Software Lead
CReSIS / NSF EarthCube / Open Polar Radar / NASA Operation IceBridge
Open Polar Radar Digital Twin / FullSim NSF / NASA Funded Radar Depth Sounder MCoRDS
Jan 2019 to May 2025
Instructor (GTA)
Dept. of EECS, University of Kansas
DC Circuits Lab EECS 318 / 316
Jan 2025 to May 2025
Software Lead (Intern)
Ainstein LLC
Automotive MIMO Radar CFAR / Beamforming Agile Sprint
Jun 2021 to Aug 2021
Radar Hardware Lead & Research Engineer
CReSIS / NASA Operation IceBridge (Arctic & Antarctic)
Field Deployments Airborne Platforms EMI/EMC
Feb 2017 to Dec 2018
Radar System Engineer
CReSIS / NASA Global Hawk UAV Program
mm-Wave Filters Frequency Multiplier Chain Altium / HFSS Snow Radar
Aug 2014 to Jan 2017
Student Researcher
Antenna Research Lab (ARL), RVRJC College of Engg.
Antenna Design V-band Arrays Beam Steering
Jul 2013 to Apr 2014
Expertise

Technical Skills

Signal Processing

Radiometric Calibration Pulse Compression Coherent Noise Removal SAR / InSAR Beamforming MIMO Processing CFAR DOA / AOA (MVDR, MUSIC)

Radar & RF Hardware

FMCW / LFM / Pulsed Phased Arrays Multi-channel Receivers mm-Wave Filter Design Frequency Multipliers EMI/EMC Altium Designer Ansys HFSS / ADS

Programming & HPC

MATLAB Python C/C++ Git / CI/CD HPC Parallel Processing Bash / Linux PostgreSQL Node.js

Remote Sensing

Ice Sheet Sounding Snow Radar Airborne Deployments NSIDC / DAAC Data Surface Tracking Radiometric Calibration Crossovers Natural Targets

AI & Machine Learning

Deep Neural Networks LSTM / Skip MLP Computer Vision (YOLO) NVIDIA Jetson / JetPack Edge AI Sensor Fusion DSP for AI Google GenAI SDK / ADK

Systems Engineering

System Architecture V&V / Digital Twin Hardware/Software Co-design Link Budget End-to-end Logistics Automated Testing CONOPS Development Technical Program Management
Research

Scholarly Communication

Selected publications and conference presentations. Full list available on Google Scholar/CV.

2026
A Unified Radiometric Calibration Procedure for Radar Depth Sounder Data Products
Talasila, H. M., Paden, J.
International Symposium on Radioglaciology (IGS), Germany
PDF
In Prep
2025
Natural Target Analysis for the Radiometric Calibration of Radar Depth Sounder Data Products
Talasila, H. M., Paden, J.
IEEE International Radar Conference (RADAR 2025), Atlanta, GA
Source / DOI PDF
Oral
2025
AI-ready Snow Radar Echogram Dataset (SRED) for Climate Change Monitoring
Oluwanisola, I., Talasila, H. M., et al.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.00786
Source / DOI PDF
Preprint
2024
Crossover Analysis for the Radiometric Calibration of Radar Depth Sounder Data Products
Talasila, H. M., Paden, J.
2024 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf 2024), Denver, CO
Source / DOI PDF
Oral
2023
Snow Radar Echogram Layer Tracker: Deep Neural Networks for Radar Data from NASA Operation IceBridge
Oluwanisola, I., Talasila, H. M., et al.
2023 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf 2023), San Antonio, TX
Source / DOI PDF
Oral
2023
An Age Scale for New Climate Records from Sherman Island, West Antarctica
Rowell, I. et al. (SAR processing by Talasila, H. M.)
Climate of the Past, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 1699–1714
Source / DOI PDF
Journal
2023
High-Altitude Measurements of Snow Thickness using Ultra-Wideband Microwave Radar
Talasila, H. M. et al.
IEEE IGARSS 2023, Pasadena, CA
Source / DOI PDF
Oral
2019
First-Pass Design of UWB Microwave and mm-Wave Filters for Multi-Stage Frequency Multiplication
Talasila, H. M., Morales, F. R., Orloff, N., Gu, D., et al.
Microwave Journal, vol. 62, no. 11, Nov. 2019
Source / NIST PDF
Journal
Current & Past

Ventures

4cThreat

Nov 2025 to Present

Distributed airspace intelligence via sensor fusion on Edge AI platforms. Built for real-time drone tracking.

Gain Terrain

Jun 2025 to Present

Signal intelligence project focused on characterizing terrestrial and orbital electromagnetic transmissions.

OverWatch Protocol

Personal Build

Real-time location tracking dashboard built on Node.js featuring battery telemetry, weather layers, asset tracking, emergency preparation, and content aggregation.

Made in Repalle

2019 to Present

Digital infrastructure, marketing systems, and supply chain management for a seasonal hybrid fruit farm and business founded by my father.

Academic Background

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Signal & Data Processing)
University of Kansas
Advisor: Dr. John D. Paden
Dissertation: Radiometric Calibration of Radar Depth Sounder Data Products
Source PDF
May 2025
M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Radar Systems & Remote Sensing)
University of Kansas
Advisor: Dr. Fernando Rodriguez-Morales
Thesis: Modular Frequency Multiplier and Filters for the NASA Global Hawk Snow Radar
Source PDF
Dec 2016
B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering
Acharya Nagarjuna University
Advisor: Dr. Sudhakar Alapati
Project: Performance Analysis of Patch Antenna Configurations
Apr 2014
Beyond the Lab

Service & Leadership

Peer Review

  • IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems (T-RS)
  • Elsevier Remote Sensing Applications (RSASE)
  • IEEE IGARSS / ICoMMS / EuRAD / EuMC / EuMIC
  • Editorial Board, AJRS / JEER
  • IEEE Learning Network Courses

Governance & Student Leadership

  • Founder & President, KU Think Tank Mini
  • University Senator, KU
  • Student Senator, Graduate constituency, KU
  • President, CReSIS Student Organization
  • President, KU Global Partners

Community & Emergency Response

  • Responder 2 (Active / Deployable), CERT
  • Blood Donor (Active since 2013)
  • Blood Donor Ambassador, American Red Cross
  • BeMyEyes Responder (Telugu / English)
  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Fundraiser

Mentorship & Outreach

  • Co-mentored an Emerging Scholar
  • KU Diversity & Mentoring Training Program
  • Judge, Undergraduate ERIP Conference (CReSIS)
  • APECS POLAREO Database Project Group
  • IARPC Early Career Community of Practice