Millimeter-wave radar offers several advantages over traditional microwaveradar, including higher resolution, greater accuracy, increased sensitivity to small targets,
and less atmospheric attenuation. By utilizing deep learning techniques, the raw data can
be processed to extract features and classify targets with high accuracy, making it ideal
for sensitive applications. This work develops multiple new applications utilizing
millimeter-wave FMCW radar. The first application monitors container vibrations to
detect drilling vibrations autonomously. The system demonstrates the ability to detect
micron-scale intrusive drilling at highway speed for the first time. The second application
proposes the use of combined heart sound and gait signals for the first time as biometrics
for human identification. Using the image augmentation technique and the joint
probability mass function method, the two biometrics are combined to report a 98%
identification accuracy. The third application demonstrate the improvement of the radarbased
human activity recognition using the combination of four data domains: timefrequency,
time-range, range-Doppler and, for the first time, time-angle domain. Six
different activities are observed from nine subjects to achieve a combined classification
accuracy of 100%. Lastly, the fourth application presents a human tracking system where
three classifiers are utilized to identify the subject and their behavior. The system tracks
the subject and detect the type of their motion. Based on the detected type of motion, the
three classifiers are utilized for identification and activity recognition.