Ashish Pandharipande

Ashish Pandharipande is a University Researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering. His career spans academic and industrial roles, including Technical Director at NXP Semiconductors since 2021 and prior positions at Signify, Philips, and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Iowa and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Florida.

• Current Role: Technical Director, Innovation at NXP Semiconductors
• Past Academic Roles: Senior Researcher, Senior Scientist, Lead R&D Engineer

His research focuses on signal processing, machine learning, and automotive radar systems, with a strong emphasis on semantic communication, LiDAR-radar fusion, and energy-efficient sensing. Recent work explores sparsity-aware algorithms, interference mitigation, and reconfigurable sensing frameworks for autonomous driving and IoT applications.

The 15 most recent publications highlight advancements in automotive radar (e.g., MIMO systems, spoofing detection), semantic communication (e.g., on-demand forwarding, interference cancellation), and smart city applications (e.g., lighting control, RIS-assisted systems). Trends include integration of vision sensors for radar point cloud estimation and deep unfolding for sparse signal recovery.

Ashish has supervised 7 students and has over 350 research outputs. His work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals in smart cities and energy efficiency.