When Nishant Mehrotra stepped onto the NIST Boulder campus, he was filled with a mix of anticipation and determination. This sojourn wasn’t just your typical lab visit. He was presenting at the Conference on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA) — the premier event for SA imaging. Mehrotra had spent months researching for his grad thesis, and now he would be presenting his findings to a group of leading professionals in radar sensing, the topic of his studies. How many times had he thought to himself There’s got to be a better way to solve this. Or: I bet someone already has — I just need to find where it’s published. This conference was the place to find those answers.
Mehrotra, a graduate Student at Rice University, was looking for inspiration and context for his research, in addition to hoping his presentation would go well. He was not disappointed. “I came away with new ideas and new connections that really helped with my graduate research,” Mehrotra said.
The scope of CISA conferences are truly impressive, including advances in theoretical development, engineering practice and standardization of all aspects of SA imaging related to synthetic aperture — radar, sonar, radiometry, ptychography, magnetic resonance imaging, radio astronomy, time-of-flight cameras, and more.
Arriving at the same conference, Dr. Paritosh Manurkar, a Senior Research Fellow, CU Boulder and Associate, NIST Boulder, knew just what to expect. Manurkar had been to CISA before (even helped organize the inaugural conference). He found the conference helped him look at his research “in a different light, adding more dimensions to my thought processes.” What Manurkar found most useful was hearing from a broad range of experts highlighting the wide impact and applications of computational imaging using synthetic apertures — all brought together at one conference. He found the benefits of interacting with experts across the field so valuable that Dr. Manurkar became a part of the IEEE Synthetic Aperture Technical Working Group, and the editorial panel of the IEEE TCI Special Section on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures.
Dr. Mehrotra and Dr. Manurkar are just a couple of the many varied participants who will be attending the 2025 IEEE Conference on Computational Imaging Using Synthetic Apertures (CISA 2025), at the University of Maryland, College Park, 2-6 June 2025.
See how CISA can broaden and enrich your research; meet fellow researchers like Dr. Mehrotra and Dr. Manurkar, by attending CISA 2025: Seeing Beyond the Limits. The conference will cover the varied fields that use Synthetic Apertures (SA), and include a deep technical program, with keynote talks and tutorials from leading experts.
CISA 2025 is jointly hosted by The University of Maryland, IEEE USA, IEEE Region 1+2, and the IEEE Synthetic Aperture Standards Committee. For more details, visit cisa-conference.org or email info@cisa-conference.org.
