Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Ignacio Fernández Hernández has been the manager and design lead of the Galileo Commercial Service at the European Commission DG ENTR, since 2012. He also chairs the Galileo CS EU Working Group.
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Eric Luvisutto is the program manager for data collection/location/search & rescue in the Strategy, Programme and International Relations Directorate of CNES. He is the French representative in the Council of the international COSPAS-SARSAT organization.
Early in his career, he led R&D efforts and then held management responsibilities for several satellite projects (STENTOR, WorldStar and others). He has collaborated on many programs with European, national, and regional authorities.
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Thibaud Calmettes is technical manager for Data Collection and Scientific Application Programs Department within the Navigation Business segment of Thales Alenia Space France.
After being the technical responsible for the on-board processing equipment during ARGOS 4 development, he is now in charge of various data collection systems, such as Satellite-AIS and VDES, and of developments around MEOSAR, including new generation beacons, signals, and MEOLUT processing.
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Ana Petcu is development and system engineer for new data collection systems within the Navigation Business segment of Thales Alenia Space France.
She oversaw the signal processing definition and validation on ARGOS-4 equipment and is now in charge of the studies and development of the new generation MEOLUT, which includes innovative system and processing approaches.
Petcu is also in charge of testing and upgrade of the MEOSAR open processing chain developed for CNES to support analysis of current MEOSAR performances.
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Yoan Gregoire is radionavigation and radiolocation engineer in the navigation/location signals and equipment department in CNES, the French Space Agency.
His COSPAS-SARSAT activities cover second-generation beacons specifications development and performance evaluation. He is in charge of the development of a MEOSAR open reference chain developed by CNES and used for signal characterization and performance evaluation.
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Laura Ruotsalainen is a research manager at the Department of Navigation and Positioning at the Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland, where she leads the research group on ubiquitous positioning.
She received her doctoral degree from the Department of Pervasive Computing, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Her doctoral studies were partly conducted at the Department of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada. The doctoral research was focused on vision-aided seamless indoor/outdoor pedestrian navigation.
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Martti Kirkko-Jaakkola received his M.Sc. and D.Sc. (Tech.) degrees from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland.
From 2006 to 2013 he worked with the Department of Pervasive Computing, TUT.
Currently, he is a senior research scientist at the Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland, where his research interests include precise satellite positioning, low-cost MEMS sensors, and indoor positioning.
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Stefan Söderholm is a researcher at the Finnish Geodetic Institute, Department of Navigation and Positioning. He is working on improving the performance in consumer grade GNSS receivers.
Before joining the Institute in September 2013, he worked at Fastrax Ltd., starting at the end of 2000. From 2004 he headed the Fastrax software development team, and 2008 he became vice-president of R&D in the company.
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Mohammad Zahidul H. Bhuiyan received his M.Sc. degree and D.Sc. (Tech.) degree from the Department of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Finland.
He is currently working in the Department of Navigation and Positioning at the Finnish Geodetic Institute as a specialist research scientist with research interests covering various aspects of GNSS receiver design and sensor fusion algorithms for seamless outdoor/indoor positioning.
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Pravin Patidar obtained his B. E. (electronics & communication Engineering) in 2005 from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India, and an M. Tech (information & communication technology) in 2007 from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of ICT, Gandhinagar, India.
Patidar joined ISRO in 2007 and since then has been involved in systems engineering activities of satellite navigation payloads at Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India.
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Himani Bahuguna received her B.E. (electronics & communication) from Govind Ballabh Pant Engineering College, Pauri Garhwal, India.
She joined Space Applications Centre-ISRO in 2010.
Bahuguna was involved in the systems engineering activities of IRNSS and GAGAN payloads and currently is working at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore.
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Dhaval J. Upadhyay received his B.Tech. (electronics & communication) from Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India.
He joined Space Applications Centre-ISRO in 2010.
Upadhyay is working on systems engineering activities of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) and the GPS-Aided Geo-Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) system payloads.
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Daniel Chou is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.
His current research projects include designing and implementing countermeasures against malicious attacks on civilian grade GPS receivers utilized in phasor measurement units.
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