Hanoch Lev-Ari

Professor Emeritus,  Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Research Focus

Adaptive filtering, Statistical signal processing, spectrum analysis and estimation, networked dynamic state estimation.

About

Dr. Lev-Ari received the BS (Summa Cum Laude), and the MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1971 and 1978, respectively; and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1984.

Dr. Lev-Ari was a research scientist with Integrated Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA from 1982 to 1984. During 1985 he held a joint appointment as an adjunct research professor of Electrical Engineering with the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA and as a research associate with the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford. He stayed at Stanford as a senior research associate until 1990, when he joined Northeastern University. During 1994-1996 he was the Director of the Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP) Center at Northeastern University. Professor Lev-Ari served as an Associate Editor of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, and of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems I. He has authored/coauthored over 50 journal publications, 11 book chapters and over 90 conference papers. He is a member of SIAM, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Lev-Ari has supervised the research of 22 MS students and 21 PhD candidates. His research interests include adaptive filtering under the non-stationary regime, dynamic time-frequency analysis, and multi-rate/multi-sensor networked state estimation; with applications to identification of time-variant systems, customized dynamic phasors, dynamic power decomposition, and adaptive power flow control in polyphase power systems. His past research has involved a number of mathematical techniques and a variety of applications in signal processing, including: model-based spectrum analysis and estimation for non-stationary signals; extension of maximum-entropy techniques to multi-dimensional signal processing; characterization of structured matrices; and Markov renewal models for non-stationary signals.

Education

  • PhD, Stanford University, 1984. Joined Northeastern in 1990.

Honors & Awards

  • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Research Overview

Adaptive filtering, Statistical signal processing, spectrum analysis and estimation, networked dynamic state estimation.

Selected Publications

  • H. Lev-Ari, R.D. Hernandez, A.M. Stankovic and E.A.Marengo Adaptive Near-Optimal Compensation in Lossy Polyphase Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 26(2), 2018, 732-739
  • P. Ren, H. Lev-Ari and A. Abur, Tracking Three Phase Untransposed Transmission Line Parameters Using Synchronized Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 33(4), 2018, 4155-4163
  • P. Hajiyani, H. Lev-Ari, A.M. Stankovic, Mitigating Bad Data and Measurement Delay in Nonlinear Dynamic State Estimation, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Montreal, 2016
  • P. Ren, H. Lev-Ari, A. Abur, Robust Continuous-Discrete Kalman Filter for Estimating Machine States with Model Uncertainties, 19th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC), Genoa, Italy, 2016
  • P. Argyropoulos, H. Lev-Ari, A. Abur, Subband Transmission Line Modeling for Robust Power System Transient Simulation, IEEE PES General Meeting, Denver, 2015
  • P.E. Argyropoulos, H. Lev-Ari, Wavelet Customization for Improved Fault Location Quality in Power Networks, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 30(5), 2015, 2215-2223
  • B. Yan, H. Lev-Ari, A.M. Stankovic, Robust Continuous-Discrete Kalman Filter for Time-Stamped Delay Mitigation in Networked Estimation and Control Systems, 46th North American Power Symposium, Pullman, 2014
  • L. Peng, H. Lev-Ari, Estimating the Autocorrelation Function of an Arbitrarily Time-Variant System Response, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Vancouver, BC, May 2013, 6249-6253

Sep 27, 2012

Improving Power Systems

ECE professors Ali Abur and Hanoch Lev-Ari were awarded a $400K NSF grant to use synchronized measurements to determine where faults are in power systems. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to […]

Aug 29, 2011

Building a Better Tomorrow

ECE professors Ali Abur, Hanoch Lev-Ari, and former COE professor Alex Stankovic secured a $2.3M grant from the NSF and the Dept. of Energy to help develop the nation’s next generation of electric power transmission grids. Source: News @ Northeastern

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