Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Ali Broumandan received his Ph.D. degree in the geomatics engineering from the University of Calgary.
He has worked in the PLAN Group as senior research associate since November 2013 where his research focuses on GNSS interference mitigation using single- and multiple-antenna processing.
Broumandan has been involved in several industrial research projects focusing on spatial/temporal GNSS signal processing.
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Michael Jones is a consultant engineer at Roke Manor Research, specializing in advanced GNSS adaptive antenna systems and state-of-the-art radar.
He gained a First-Class Masters degree in electronic engineering from the University of York and was also awarded the Racal prize for best avionics degree.
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Randy Silva has been a principal software engineer and system architect in the GPS industry for 20 years.
He presently works for Broadcom Corporation developing GNSS navigation software.
He holds a computer science degree from the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
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Javier de Salas has worked in the GPS industry since 1994 and is now a director in the GPS business unit of Broadcom where he leads the GPS R&D center in Madrid, Spain.
Previously, de Salas worked at Ashtech, Magellan, and Global Locate.
He has an M.S. in electrical engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and holds eight U.S. patents on GNSS technology.
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Frank van Diggelen is a Broadcom Fellow and vice-president of technology for Broadcom
Corporation where he directs development of GNSS, sensor, and wireless
LAN location technology. He holds more than 70 issued U.S. patents on
A-GNSS.
He is the author of the bestselling textbook, A-GPS: Assisted GPS, GNSS and SBAS, the first textbook on A-GPS; available in English and Chinese.
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Konstandinos Diamandouros joined the European Road Federation (ERF) in April 2009 as a communications and research associate and then as director of operations.
Previously, following his completion of post-graduate studies in international and European politics, Diamandouros worked for more than three years as a policy officer in the Directorate-General for Research at the European Commission.
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Sara Gutiérrez-Lanza is an electronics engineer and industrial technical engineer.
She is the coordinator of the Division of Navigation Engineering and Applications in the Transportation area of GMV, being responsible for planning, configuration management and cost control, pre-sales activities, and business development.
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Marco Lisi, Dr. ing., is presently GNSS services engineering manager at the European Space Agency in the Directorate of Galileo Program and Navigation-related Activities.
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Nicklas Lindman is a system engineer working at the European Space Agency in the System Modelling and Functional Verification Section at ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
At ESA he supports projects and leads R&D activities in the area of system engineering, system modelling, and system simulation.
He also supports standardization activities in these areas.
Lindman holds a master’s degree in space engineering from Umea University in Sweden.
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Pierluigi De Simone INCOSE, IPMA, is currently working on system assembly, integration and verification (AIV) for the Galileo mission in ESA.
De Simone has worked in many software developments in the field of graphics, safe mode software, and visual programming, and on many space missions, including Helios, METEOSAT, METOP, and COSMO-SkyMed.
His main interests are in modelling paradigms and cryptography.
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Joachim Fuchs is head of the System Modelling and Functional Verification Section at the European Space Agency.
His background is in software and space system engineering.
His group supports ESA projects in the area of assembly, integration and verification (AIV)/assembly, integration, and testing (AIT) and the corresponding verification means, but also in the adaptation of new engineering methods such as model-based approaches.
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Daniele Gianni is currently an internal research fellow in the System Modelling and Functional Verification Section of the European Space Agency.
Gianni received a Ph.D. in computer and control engineering from University of Rome TorVergata (Italy), in the field of modelling and simulation.
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J.K. Hota graduated in engineering from associated members of the Institution of Engineers India.
He joined Indian Space Research Organization in 1976.
His work has focused mainly on system engineering, integration and testing of satellite communication Earth stations and satellite payloads. He is currently working on the IRNSS project.
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