Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Alexander Povalyaev is the deputy head of the division in the JSC “Russian Space Systems” and is a professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute.
He has developed methods and algorithms for GNSS carrier phase measurements processing for more than 30 years and has published more than 50 papers as well as a monograph in satellite navigation.
In recent years, Povalyaev has actively worked on developing new code division GLONASS signals.
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Vladimir Kharisov is the science director of JSC “VNIIR Progress” and a professor of the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy.
He has developed signal theory for more than 30 years and has published more than 150 papers and several monographs in signal theory and satellite navigation.
More recently, Kharisov has actively worked on developing new code division GLONASS signals.
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Gianluca Falco, PH.D., received a B.S. in telematics engineering and an M.S. in communication engineering.
Since 2008 he has been a communication engineer with the NavSAS group of Istituto Superiore Mario Boella where he developed a loosely-coupled and tightly-coupled approach for a GPS/INS integration.
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From 2007 through 2016, Eliza Schmidkunz wrote the GNSS Hotspots column.
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Mattia De Agostino is a post-doctoral research assistant at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) from which he received a Ph.D. degree in geomatics engineering.
His major research interests are in low-cost INS and GNSS systems for mobile mapping and navigation purposes and in the network GNSS positioning.
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Paolo Dabove is a post-doctoral research assistant at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy).
Dabove holds a Ph.D. degree in geomatics engineering from the same university, and completed his M.Sc. degree in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Genoa.
His major research interests are in quality control of GNSS positioning, kinematic positioning with low-cost GNSS instruments, and network GNSS positioning.
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Mathieu Dervin has been with the research department of Thales Alenia Space in Toulouse, France, since 2006.
He is carrying out technical studies to prepare the future space telecommunication systems.
Dervin’s research interests cover advanced digital communication techniques applied to the satellite transmissions, and include waveform and receiver architecture design.
He received an engineering degree and a Ph.D. degree in communications, both from Télécom ParisTech.
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Roel van Bree graduated in astronomy from Leiden University in the Netherlands in 1997.
He worked for 10 years at TNO Defense and Security on synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
Currently, van Bree is working as a research associate at Delft University of Technology (DUT) on PPP and navigation with GPS and Galileo.
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Dr. Guoquan Wang is currently an assistant professor at the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping and the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston.
Wang earned his Ph.D in solid earth geophysics from the Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration.
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Yutaka Mochizuki is a chief engineer at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. in Southfield, Michigan, investigating cooperative vehicle safety applications using dedicated short range communications (DSRC).
He was the technical lead for the Crash Avoidance Metrics Partnership (CAMP) Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance System — Violation (CICAS-V) project.
Mochizuki earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Tohoku University in Japan.
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Zeljko Popovic is a research engineer at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. in Southfield, Michigan, investigating GPS positioning performance in obstructed environments for the needs of cooperative vehicle safety.
He has previously developed automotive control algorithms and software for Siemens VDO and Visteon.
Popovic earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering (mechatronics option) from the University of Waterloo and an M.S. in computer engineering from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
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Robert Watson received B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
From 1995–1998 he was a senior research officer at the University of Essex where he was involved in a number of radio propagation and remote sensing projects.
In October 1998, Watson joined the academic staff at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, where he is currently a senior Lecturer.
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Jenna R. Tong is a postdoctoral researcher at the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Bath.
Her first degree was at Imperial College, London, and her Ph.D. in electron tomography was achieved at the University of Cambridge.
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