Dr. Siva Prasad Gogineni received a BE in electronics and communications from Mysore University in 1973, an MSc in engineering from Kerala University in 1976, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas (KU) in 1984. He began his teaching career as a visiting assistant professor in 1984 and retired as the Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor, in 2016 from KU. Currently, Dr. Gogineni is the Cudworth Professor in the College of Engineering and the director of the Remote Sensing Center at the University of Alabama (UA).
Dr. Gogineni was the founding director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at KU from 2005 to 2016. He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellow and also served as manager of NASA’s polar program from 1997–1999. He received the Louise Byrd Graduate Educator Award at KU and was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Tasmania in 2002.
Dr. Gogineni has been involved with radar sounding and imaging of ice sheets for about 35 years and contributed to the first successful demonstration of SAR imaging of the ice bed through more than 3-km-thick ice. He also led the development of ultra-wideband radars for measuring the thickness of snow over sea ice and the mapping of internal layers in polar firn and ice. Dr. Gogineni and his students also developed early versions of all radars flown as a part of NASA’s Operation IceBridge (OIB). Besides, the remote sensing team at UA demonstrated the first successful sounding of about 3-km-thick ice in Greenland and Antarctica at 750 MHz and 1.25 GHz, respectively. Dr. Gogineni is the lead author or co-author of 150 archival journal publications and has given or contributed to over 250 conference presentations.
Dr. Gogineni’s Fulbright-Kalam project is developing advanced radars for airborne monitoring of snow and ice in the Indian Himalayas in collaboration with institutions in India. The current systems do not provide adequate fine-resolution measurements of the vast freshwater resources on mountain glaciers and snow in high elevations because they are often difficult to measure using traditional in situ and labor-intensive methods. Advances in remote sensing and deployment platforms are required for regional airborne surveys of snow and ice. The project is also establishing long-term collaborations to develop airborne radars for fine-resolution regional-scale surveys of snow and ice.