Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Bin Hu received his bachelor’s degree from University of Science and Technology of China and his master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
He is a Ph.D candidate at the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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Trevor Layh received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from South Dakota State University.
After graduation, he worked for the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia, as a civilian test engineer and UAS pilot.
Layh is currently an M.S. degree candidate in aerospace engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
His current research is focused on navigation systems using cell phone signals to aid estimation solutions when GNSS is degraded.
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Jordan Larson is a Minnesota native and earned a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering and mechanics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
His academic area of interest is in control and dynamical systems.
Larson has been involved in UAV research over his collegiate years and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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Paul Freeman is an aerospace engineering Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
He received the M.S. degree at University of Minnesota and the B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland–College Park.
Freeman’s research interests include reliability assessment, fault tolerance, and robust control for safety-critical aerospace systems.
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Hamid Mokhtarzadeh is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota.
He has a B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering and mechanics also from the University of Minnesota.
Mokhtarzadeh’s M.S. research focused on modeling and control of dynamical systems. His current interests include data analysis and visualization, estimation, and integrated navigation systems.
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Joaquim Fortuny-Guasch received an engineering degree in telecommunications from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, and a Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany.
Since 1993, he has been working for the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy, as senior scientific officer.
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Igor Stojkovic is the principal search and rescue engineer on the Galileo program in ESA, responsible for design and development of the SAR/Galileo component of the MEOSAR System.
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Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira is responsible in ESA ESTEC for the activities related to radiowave propagation in the ionosphere and local environment for GNSS and Satellite Mobile Communications.
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Alexander Mudrak is the timing performance engineer at the ESA Galileo Project Office.
He has been in charge of the verification of the timing performance during the GALILEO IOV Test Campaign.
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Daniel Blonski joined the Galileo Project Office in ESA ESTEC in 2001 where he is the system performance engineer responsible for coordinating all system performance activities in the Galileo Project.
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Gary Balas is a professor and the department head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA.
His main research interest is in narrowing the gap between engineering requirements, real-time control implementation, and theoretical control analysis and design techniques.
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Peter Seiler is an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA.
His research is in the area of control systems with applications to aerospace systems. In his research, he develops tools to analyze the effect of model uncertainty and nonlinearities on system performance and algorithms to increase the reliability of safety critical systems.
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Brian Taylor is the director of the University of Minnesota Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Laboratory.
His main research interests include developing test techniques and analysis methods for accurately and efficiently modeling aircraft and aircraft components from experimental data. Additionally, Taylor is interested in developing optimal control allocation algorithms to simultaneously meet rigid body control demands, suppress structural modes, minimize structural loading, and reduce drag.
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