Dmitry Kovalev Experience Selected Projects Education Publications CV

Professional Experience

Senior System Engineer
Sony Depthsensing Solutions (Sony Semiconductor Solutions Group)

2019–Present | Brussels, Belgium
  • Developed signal-processing pipelines that improved system-level accuracy of dToF SPAD LiDARs by 5×, driving histogram-based calibration upgrades and their adoption into the production library.
  • Developed a proof-of-concept fusion of imaging radar, iToF and RGB cameras data to reconstruct low-SNR unreliable points in the point cloud.
  • Engineered synchronized radar-camera fusion prototypes to enhance low-angular-resolution Doppler radar data with high-lateral-resolution imagery for safety-critical applications.
  • Customer support, translating R&D breakthroughs into industrial-grade LiDAR systems.

Software developer/Consultancy
SkyEcho, Pescamotion

2018–2022, 2025 | The Netherlands

Doctoral Researcher
Université catholique de Louvain

2015–2019 | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Researched atmospheric turbulence and wake vortex electromagnetic scattering; delivered radar signal-processing modules for FP7-UFO and SESAR projects.
  • Built the data-collection and processing pipeline for ESA’s Alphasat TDP5 Ka/Q-band propagation experiment.

Engineer
Department of Radio Electronic Facilities; RI “Prognoz”, ETU “LETI”

2009–2014 | Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Built proof of concept of a DVB-T2 based passive radar; performed radio measurements; developed signal-processing algorithms (Matlab, Python, C, OpenCL) and implemented them for GPU/CPU parallel processing.
  • Designed and tested the architecture of the passive radar processing unit, achieving near real-time performance.

Software Engineer
CJSC “Pikar”

2007–2009 | Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • Built a web application to integrate pass-request workflows into enterprise access-control systems (C++, C#, ASP.NET, SQL).
  • Managed project administration and migrated legacy databases to SQL Server.