Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Willard Marquis is a senior staff systems engineer with the GPS IIR and GPS III Flight Operations Group, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.
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Chris Goodall is a co-founder and the vice-president, applications, at Trusted Positioning Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
He has been working in developing, deploying and testing multi-sensor navigation systems for over 8 years.
Goodall obtained his B.Sc. in systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada and his Ph.D. in geomatics engineering in 2008 from the University of Calgary.
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Haitao Zhang is a master’s degree candidate in School of Electronic and Information Engineering at Beihang University.
He received his bachelor degree in Measurement and Control Technology and Instruments from Wuhan University of Technology.
Zhang’s research interests include GNSS signal simulators and hardware design.
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Yanhong Kou is an associate professor in School of Electronic and Information Engineering at Beihang University.
She received a Ph.D. in Communica tion and Information Engineering from Beihang University.
Since 2002, she has been working on a wide range of GNSS-related research areas. Her research interests include GNSS signal simulators, high performance receivers, and digital signal processing.
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Pierre-Yves Dumas received his engineer diploma in electronics at the Institut Supérieur d’Electronique de Paris (ISEP).
After gaining experience in embedded software development in the oil industry he joined Thales Avionics in 2002, first as a software engineer, then as GNSS engineer.
He has been working on GNSS airborne receivers, focusing mainly on Galileo and GLONASS capability.
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Leïla Kislig is an engineer at the Swiss institute of Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) working for the Swiss Positioning Service (swipos).
She holds a Master D. in Environment and Geomatic from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Kislig’s primary interests are high precision navigation and positioning and optimizations focused on applications.
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Gabriele Giorgi is a Ph.D. candidate at the Mathematical Geodesy and Positioning (MGP) section, Delft Institute of Earth Observation and Space Systems (DEOS), Delft University of Technology, in Delft, The Netherlands.
His main research focuses on attitude determination with next-generation GNSS.
Giorgi has an M.Sc. degree in space engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and a B.Sc. degree in aerospace engineering from the same university.
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Peter Buist is a GNSS researcher at Delft University of Technology (DUT). He received his master degree in the field of aerospace engineering from DUT.
After eight years in the Japanese industry working on GNSS applications for space, Buist returned to Delft.
Currently he is working on integrated attitude determination and relative positioning for formation flying in the GARADA project.
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Kevin Judge has 24 years of experience in radio-navigation technology with extensive experience in algorithm development for GPS and network-based navigation.
Judge served as an advisor to the cellular and general navigation sub-teams. He has helped to shape location standards for CDMA and UMTS networks as a contributing member of both 3GPP and 3GPP2.
He works as an independent consultant operating as Judge Software Systems, Inc.
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Brock Butler is the director for wireless location technology at Spirent Communications and has spent over 12 years creating test and measurement solutions for the wireless industry.
Butler contributed to the cellular TWG sub-team laboratory test plan and testing process.
He received his BSEE degree from Villanova University.
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Ronald Borsato is principal architect at Spirent Communications with 17 years of wireless industry experience.
Borsato is vice-chair of the CTIA’s ERP Ad-Hoc Subgroup and also served as a technical advisor to the cellular sub-team of the LightSquared TWG.
He actively participates in 3GPP on LTE and OTA matters. Borsato served as chair of the CTIA GPS Subgroup during the development of the test requirements.
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Peter Boulton is the CTO for positioning products at Spirent Communications and has spent 24 years in the GNSS simulation and test industry.
Boulton is an honors graduate in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Wales.
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Em. Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Guenter W. Hein is Professor Emeritus of Excellence at the University FAF Munich.
He was ESA Head of EGNOS & GNSS Evolution Programme Dept. between 2008 and 2014, in charge of development of the 2nd generation of EGNOS and Galileo.
Prof. Hein is still organizing the ESA/JRC International Summerschool on GNSS, and is the founder of the annual Munich Satellite Navigation Summit.
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