Salvador H. Talisa ’78 ScM, ’82 PhD

Salvador H. Talisa ’78 ScM, ’82 PhD, of Ellicott City, Md.; May 15. After graduating, he joined Westinghouse Research & Development Center in Pittsburgh, beginning a long and distinguished career developing advanced microwave devices, materials, and techniques to improve the performance of military radar systems. In 1997, he transferred to Northrop Grumman Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector near Baltimore and became a program and business development manager for radar receiver and exciter technology. He joined Johns Hopkins’s applied physics laboratory in 2001 as a member of the sensor technologies group in the air and missile defense sector. He was promoted to the highest technical staff level in 2005 and was appointed group chief scientist in 2018. During this time he became an internationally recognized leader in advanced radar technology. He was the principal author of a seminal and widely cited technical paper on the benefits of digital phased array radars and his research on the effects and mitigation of phase noise was essential in the development of multiple advanced radar systems, including the AN/SPY-6 radar installed on the U.S. Navy’s newest destroyers. He authored and/or coauthored more than 60 technical papers and was granted eight patents. He is survived by his wife, Monica; two sons; three grandchildren; and three siblings.