# Signal Processing Systems

**Source**: https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl
**Parent**: https://microelectronics.tudelft.nl/Groups/

### [Dept. of Microelectronics](http://microelectronics.tudelft.nl)

# Signal Processing Systems

# Introduction

The Signal Processing Systems Section (formerly
called Circuits and Systems) covers
the theory and applications of signal processing,
including machine learning

### Presentations

[This link](https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/Introduction/index.php)
will direct you to some slide presentations which are used to
introduce the group to starting MSc students.

Also have a look at the
[IEEE Signal Processing Society
youtube video channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/ieeeSPS) for more general information on signal processing.

Signal processing theory includes array
signal processing, estimation and detection,
sampling theory, graph signal processing, convex
optimization, distributed processing, machine
learning and tensor analysis.

Application areas include audio and acoustics,
wireless communication, radio astronomy systems,
distributed sensing from space, biomedical signal
and image processing (MRI, ultrasound, ECG), image and
video analysis, and
computational platforms for autonomous driving
(e.g., radar sensor fusion).

The main goal in our research program is to provide
a sound mathematical framework for the analysis and
synthesis of problems in the complete trajectory
of problem analysis, signal processing model,
algorithm design, mapping to a digital hardware
architecture or embedded system, and including
system engineering.

## Research highlights

The [Moonshot
project](https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/Research/project.php?id=218) (in combination with [Lunar Zebro](https://zebro.space)) aims to place
a swarm of rovers on the moon, doing useful stuff such
as looking for lava tunnels or creating a radio telescope.

For autonomous driving, GPS is probably not sufficiently
accurate or reliable. The
[SuperGPS](https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/Research/project.php?id=76&ti=5)
project aims to demonstrate
a road-side solution that can achieve cm resolution.
[Here](https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/Introduction/IO_magazine_NR2_2020_clip.pdf)
is a 2020 magazine article about it.
The project published a [Nature
paper](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05315-7) in Nov. 2022, which was also covered by
[IEEE Spectrum](https://spectrum.ieee.org/gps).

Radio astronomy is an interesting application area for array signal processing.
We developed a new image formation tool called
[PRIFIRA](https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/pubs/bigbang_maxwell2018.pdf),
inspired by Sparse Bayesian Learning.

This simple piece of plastic makes 3D ultrasound easy:
[read more](https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/pubs/leus19etv_ultrasound.pdf)

The SPS group participates in four MSc tracks in Electrical
Engineering: MSc Telecommunication and Sensing Systems, MSc
Signals and Systems, MSc Microelectronics, MSc Computer Engineering.
We also take students from MSc Biomedical Engineering.

SPS consists of 9 professors and about 40 researchers.

### News

[#### "Interferometry in space" project granted

NWO-PIPP grant for Raj Rajan

More ...](https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/News/indexitem.php?mi=734)

[#### Take-off grant for Justin Dauwels

DataCore: The Agentic Data Engine for Physical AI

More ...](https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2026/eemcs/two-eemcs-researchers-launch-innovative-science-based-venture-with-take-off-grant)

[#### New postdoc: Patricio Guerrero

More ...](https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/News/indexitem.php?mi=726)

### Agenda

[- Thu, 30 Apr 2026- 12:30- Aula Senaatszaal

### PhD Thesis Defence

#### Yanbin He

#### Kronecker Compressed Sensing With Structured Sparsity

Algorithms, guarantees, and applications

More ...](https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/Agenda/indexitem.php?mi=1326 "Agenda Item")

[- Thu, 21 May 2026- 10:00- Aula Senaatszaal

### PhD Thesis Defence

#### Yanbo Wang

#### Compositional Generative Models: for Generalizable Scene Generation and Understanding

building intelligent agents with the flexible, systematic compositional imagination characteristic of human cognition

More ...](https://sps.ewi.tudelft.nl/Agenda/indexitem.php?mi=1328 "Agenda Item")