Prof. Ram M. Narayanan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. Before joining the Pennsylvania State University, he was a Blackman & Lederer Chaired Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska (1988–2000), and a Design and Development Engineer at Bharat Electronics Limited, India (1976–1983). Prof. Narayanan holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. His research interests include high-resolution radar system conception and development, scattering phenomenology from volume and surface targets, information content characterization in remotely sensed imagery, and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) applications for infrastructure assessment and covert communications systems and concepts.