Dr. Raj Thilak Rajan (S'11-M'17-SM'22) is an assistant professor with the Signal Processing Systems (SPS) group, at the faculty of electrical engineering, mathematics and computer science (EEMCS) in the Delft university of technology (TUD), the Master Coordinator for the Signals and Systems track (MS-EE-S&S) and is the Co-director of the Delft Sensor AI Lab. He received his Ph.D. in 2016 from TUD, and previously obtained his M.Sc. (class first, youngest in class) and B.Sc. (with distinction) in Electronic sciences from University of Pune, India. His research interests lie in statistical machine learning and optimization, with applications to distributed autonomous sensing systems.

Raj is an IEEE Senior member, Vice-chair of the IEEE SPS ASI (Autonomous Systems Initiative), and member of the IAF SCAN (Space communications and Navigation) committee. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (IEEE-OJSP), and is a reviewer for various related journals and conferences.

Previously, he held research positions with diverse responsibilities at IMEC (Eindhoven, 2015-2018), University of Twente (Enschede, 2014-2015) and ASTRON (Dwingeloo, 2008-2014). He was a SSPF fellow (The Netherlands, 2019), INFN fellow (Italy, 2008), MIUR fellow (Italy, 2007), TIFR-VSRP fellow (India, 2005), and is an alumnus of the SSP2019 program from the international space university (ISU). He obtained his University Teaching Qualification (UTQ/BKO) diploma in 2021.