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 LukinLukin Kostyantyn Oleksandrovych
The Head of the Department
Doctor of physics and mathematics science, Professor,
IEEE Fellow
Tel. (+ 38-057)7634-349; +38 050 3232756
E-mail: lukin.konstantin@gmail.com

Date of birth – January 16, 1951, Place of birth: Dushanbe, Tajikistan (former USSR).

 Education:

1973 – graduated from the Radiophysics Faculty of Kharkiv State University (now V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University).

1980 – completed his Candidate’s thesis “Nonlinear theory of the diffraction radiation generator” at the Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and defended it at the Moscow State University (MSU), (Moscow), USSR.
Candidate of physics and mathematics sciences = PhD

1986 –  title: Senior research Fellow (Academy of Sciences of the USSR)

1989 -completed his Doctoral thesis “Theory of nonlinear oscillations in electronic systems with open resonators” at the Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and defended it at Kharkiv State University (now V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)

2004 – received the title: State Professor (Ukraine).

Professional activities, positions:

K. O. Lukin has been working in the O.Ya.Usikov IRE NAS of Ukraine since 1973:

1991 – present time – the Head of the Department #17: Laboratory for Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems (LNDES)

2021 – 2022 – Director of the O.Ya. Usikov IRE NAS of Ukraine (IRE NASU)

1989 – 1990 – Leading Research Fellow

1983 – 1988 – Senior Research Fellow

1977 – 1982 – Junior Research Fellow

1973 – 1976 – Engineer

Visiting positions – visiting professor:

  •  since 2024 – Institute of Aeronautical Technology (ITA), São José dos Campos, Brazil
  • 2023 – 04.2024 – Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Campinas, (UniCamp), Brazil
  • 09/2022 – 12/2022 – University of Alcala de Henares, Faculty of Signal Theory and Communications, Alcala de Henares (Madrid), Spain
  • 2022 – 08.2022 – International Center for Theoretical Physics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
  • 2019 – 01.2020 – University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
  • 2019, 08.2019 – International Center of Theoretical of Physics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
  • 2013, 06.2010 – ORBISAT/BRADAR, Campinas, and

02.2009, 12.2008 – EMBRAER, São José dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • 1997 – 09.1998 – Division of Advanced Technologies, Institute for Space Programs, Joint Research Center of the European Commission, JRC-Ispra, Italy
  • 1996 – 08.1997 – – International Center for Theoretical Physics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
  • 1996 – 06.1996, 06.1995 – 10.1995, 07.1993 – 09.1993, 02.1993, 07.1992 – International Center of Theoretical of Physics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
  • 1994 – Institute of Electronics, Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
  • 1992 – 11.1992 – College of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, USA.

Administrative scientific activity

  •  Principal Investigator of multiple international R&D Projects on Noise Radar Systems and sensors; Ground Noise SAR imaging and microwave systems for environment high precision monitoring, in particular 5 STCU projects #365 (1999-2001); #1232 (1999 – 2001); #P-050 (2002), #1954 (2003-2005) and #3377 (2007-2010). STCU website: http://www.stcu.int
  • Principal Investigator of the Ukrainian part of the SCOUT project of the FP-7 program; co-leader of the NATO SPS G4809 project “Compact sensor system for UAVs” (2015-2018).
  • Co-Director of NATO SPS Projects G5395 “Microwave Imaging Curtain” (2018 – 2022) and G5465 “Noise Imaging Radar Network for Airspace and Maritime Border Security (NORMA)” (2018 – 2021).
  • Co-Chairman of RTO/NATO Task Groups SET-101/RTG57/RFT (2006-2010), SET-184 (2010-2014), SET-225 (2015-2017) on Noise Radar
  • Senior Associate at Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (Microprocessor Laboratory), Trieste, Italy (1998 – 2013)
  • Head of the Commission E: Electromagnetic Noise and Interference (Electromagnetic Compatibility) of the Ukrainian National Committee of the International Union of Radio Sciences (URSI) (1993-1996)
  • Academic Secretary of the Academic Council for the Defense of Doctoral Dissertations at the O. Ya. Usikov IRE NASU (1990-1997)
  • Member of the Academic Council for the Defense of Doctoral Dissertations of the O. Ya. Usikov IRE NASU– specialty: Physical Electronics (1997 – present time), and Theoretical Physics at the NSC KIPT NAS of Ukraine (2011 – 2023).
  • Member of the Editorial board of the Journals: “Radiophysics and Electronics” (1992-2021), “Applied Radio Electronics” (2012-2021), “Radiophysics and Radio Astronomy” (2022 – present time)

Main scientific research interests:

Noise Radar Technology and Noise Radar Systems for civil and defense applications:

  • Dynamic chaos in microwave, electronic and quantum systems, including multilayer semiconductor structures with impact ionization
  • Current instabilities in reverse-biased semiconductor junctions and the development of noise generators based on them generation and processing of chaotic and random signals
  • Development of new methods and creation of devices for correlation, spectral and fractal processing of chaotic and random signals, including digital ones
  • Antennas with steerable beam synthesis – a new approach to the design of scanning antennas.
  • Noise Radars (NR), including NRs with Stepped-frequency and/or Stepped-delay variation of probing signals.
  • Ground Noise SAR; SAR Tomography
  • Microwave “video camera” based on multi-channel and multi-position Ground Noise SAR
  • Remote sensing systems – for monitoring man-made and natural objects with the aim of detecting and forecasting their pre-disaster state.
  • Obstacles Warning systems for cars and other vehicles; Self-Driving Cars.
  • Ka- and X-band radar sensor for helicopter landing assistance
  • Dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) technique for vehicle-to-vehicle data transmission in the road safety systems
  • Secure communication systems for drone control and data collection
  • Quantum Noise Radars
  • Modern relativistic theory

The main scientific results are as follows:

  • Theory of nonlinear non-stationary processes in Diffraction Radiation Generators (DRG) and other generators of the millimeter-wave and terahertz ranges with open resonators (OR) was created, which describes the following operation modes: Single-mode generation; Interaction of OR modes; Generation of high-order OR modes; Imitation Experiment; Autodyne GDR; Internal delayed feedback; Amplitude, frequency and phase modulation of the DRG output signal.
  • A new class of initial-boundary value problems of electrodynamics is proposed for the description of various systems with a nonlinear reflection of the electromagnetic field. When solving these problems, we have to deal with homogeneous linear Maxwell’s Equations with nonlinear boundary conditions. This method allows the study of chaotic dynamics in electronic, microwave, and photonic systems with nonlinear reflecting surfaces, thin films, and nonlinear metasurfaces.
  • Novel Chaos Oscillators generating controlled chaotic and noise signals in the millimeter and terahertz wave ranges are proposed and developed.
  • A new real-time digital-to-analog correlator for optimal reception of random signals has been developed and tested
  • Diagnostics of thermonuclear plasmas: measurements of the electron density profile in plasma of a thermonuclear reactor using Noise Radar Sensor.

Number of publications:

More than 480 scientific publications, including 4 Monographs & 7 Chapters in collective monographs, 8 patents.

Links to the related sites:

Awards:

  • 2019 – Award of the NATO SPS program “Science for Peace and Security” for the best innovative SPS project in the last 10 years (2008-2018).
  • 2018 – Certificate of Honor of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration in connection with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
  • 2009 – K.O.Lukin was elected an IEEE Fellow (AES) for significant contributions to the development of radars with chaotic and noisy signals.
  • 2008 – Gold medal of the Academy of Applied Radio Electronics of Ukraine – for outstanding contributions to the development of Noise Radars and Ground Noise SAR.

 Teaching activity:

1991 – 1992 –professor of higher mathematics at the H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University

Lectures on Noise Radar Technology and its application:

  •  Aeronautics Technological Institute (ITA), Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, 2024
  • Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Campinas, Brazil, 2023, 2024
  • Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, June 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • ‘Tecnológico di Monterey’, Guadalajara, México, Sept. 2015
  • Institute for Telecommunications and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 2014
  • Pisa University, Italy, 2013, 2017
  • BRADAR/Embraer, Campinas, Brazil, 2009, 2010, 2023, 2024
  • Seoul National University, South Korea, 2007, 2010
  • Chung Ang University, Seoul, South Korea, 2006, 2011
  • Hamburg-Harburg Technical University, Hamburg, Germany, 2000
  • Directorate of Research and Development, Singapore, 1999, 2001
  • ‘AeroSensing Radar Systeme’ GmbH, Wessling/Munich, Germany, 1999
  • Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., US, May 1995, June 2006
  • University of California at Irvine, California, US, May 1995
  • Automotive Division of Delco Electronics, Hughes, Malibu, US, May 1995
  • Beijing Vacuum Research Institute, Beijing. P.R. China, 1994
  • University of Electronic Sciences and Technology, Chengdu, P.R. of China, 1994
  • FOM Institute for Plasma Physics, Nieweheine, The Netherland, April 1994
  • The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., 1992, 1995
  • University of California at Los-Angeles (UCLA), USA,
  • University of California at Berkeley, USA,

Personnel training

The head of the Department, Professor Kostyantyn Lukin has been supervising bachelors, masters, Ph.D and Doctoral (D.Sc) students.

He has supervised:

11 PhD and 2 D.Sc theses at the IRE NASU; 21 specialist diploma theses at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Karazin University) and Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (NURE), 3 master’s degree theses: (1) at ICTP, Trieste, Italy (1997) and (2) at the Karazin University (2023).