The Thomas Zwick Lab

Thomas Zwick’s lab works on high-frequency wireless systems, radar, antennas, and signal processing for advanced sensing and communications. The research spans automotive radar, millimeter-wave and sub-THz communication links, integrated sensing and communication, and antenna design from PCB implementations to THz structures. A major theme is extracting accurate position, angle, velocity, and even vital-sign information from radar signals, often using OFDM-based approaches, MIMO arrays, Doppler processing, and compressed sensing. The lab also studies practical hardware and system challenges, including beam steering, waveform design, interference suppression, and model-based evaluation of mixers and antenna arrays. Students can expect a mix of theory, simulation, measurement, and prototype development, with strong emphasis on real-world demonstrators and implementation at very high frequencies. The work is especially suitable for students who enjoy electromagnetics, wireless communication, sensing, and mathematically grounded signal processing.