Prof Chris Baker is the Ohio State Research Scholar in Integrated Sensor Systems at The Ohio State University in the United States of America.
Until June 2011 he was the Dean and Director of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU). Prior to this he held the Thales-Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of intelligent radar systems based at University College London.
He is the recipient of the IEE Mountbatten premium (twice), the IEE Institute premium and is a Fellow of the IET.
He is a visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), Cranfield University (Bedford, UK), University College London, Adelaide University (South Australia), Wright State University (Ohio, USA), Nanyang Technical University (Singapore) and Strathclyde University (Glasgow, Scotland).
Prof. Baker has been actively engaged in radar system research since 1984 and is the author of over two hundred and fifty publications. His research interests include:
- coherent radar techniques,
- radar signal processing,
- radar signal interpretation,
- electronically scanned radar systems,
- radar imaging,
- natural and cognitive echo locating system