Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Francisco Amarillo Fernández received his Master´s Degree in telecommunication engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM).
Since 1998 he has been working on the design and development of GNSS systems.
In 2001 he joined the European Space Agency (ESA) Technical Directorate, and since then he has worked for the Galileo program and leads numerous research activities activities in the field of GNSS evolutions.
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Jaegyu Jang received B.S and M.S degrees and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at Seoul National University. He joined the Institute of Geodesy and Navigation, University of FAF in Munich in 2007.
Before moving to Munich he worked at Samsung Electronics as senior research engineer.
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Angelo Joseph is currently a principal systems engineer with Rockwell Collins in Melbourne, Florida, where he works on airborne GNSS receiver design and development.
Previously, he was at Avidyne Corporation where he developed Avidyne’s first Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Beta-3 GPS receiver.
Angelo was also a senior GPS systems engineer with NovAtel Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada where he played a primary role in designing the next-generation WAAS reference receiver.
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Jules McNeff is vice-president for strategy & programs at Overlook Systems Technologies, Inc., in Vienna, Virginia, USA.
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Jari Nurmi, D.Sc.(Tech), has worked as a professor at Tampere University of Technology, Finland, since 1999, and is currently in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering.
He is working on embedded computing systems, wireless localization, positioning receiver prototyping, and software-defined radio.
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Heikki Hurskainen received an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and doctoral degree in computing and electrical engineering from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland.
Currently, Hurskainen is working as a research fellow at TUT’s Department of Computer Systems, where he continues to work in satellite navigation research projects.
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Marco Detratti received the Laurea degree (M. Sc.) in electronic engineering from the University of Perugia (Italy) and the DEA (Diploma of Advanced Studies) from the University of Cantabria (Spain).
He joined ACORDE in 2005 to develop custom RF solutions for satellite applications. At present he is leading the GNSS department and is in charge of the development of navigation products and RF equipment within the company portfolio.
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Ville Syrjälä received the M.Sc. degree (with honors) in communications engineering (CS/EE) from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland.
Currently, he is working as a researcher with the Department of Communications Engineering at TUT, Finland.
His general research interests are in communications signal processing and signal processing algorithms for flexible radios.
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Mikko Valkama received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (both with honors) in electrical engineering (EE) from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland.
In 2002 he received the “Best Ph.D. Thesis” award from the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters for his dissertation entitled “Advanced I/Q signal processing for wideband receivers: Models and algorithms.”
Currently, he is a full professor in the Department of Communications Engineering at TUT.
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Sarang Thombre is a senior research scientist at the Department of Navigation and Positioning of the Finnish Geodetic Institute.
He received his Doctoral degree from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, for his research on innovations in multi-GNSS receiver testing, his B.Sc. degree (with Distinction) in electronics and telecommunications engineering (E&TC) from University of Pune (UoP), India and his M.Sc. degree (with Distinction) from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland in radio frequency electronics.
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Ernesto Pérez Serna obtained his M.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering at the University of Cantabria (Spain), where he later worked within the Department of Communications Engineering (DICOM) from 2005 to 2006, designing SiGe and Si CMOS PLL frequency synthesizers for RF receivers.
He joined ACORDE in 2006 as R&D engineer, mainly designing custom CMOS RF and digital ICs for GNSS applications.
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Jean-Michel Perre received his engineer diploma in radio communications at the Ecole Superieure d’Electricite (SUPELEC), Paris.
He joined Thales in 1994 to work on antenna signal processing and develop direction-finder and jamming-mitigation prototypes.
Since 1998, he has been working on GNSS solutions from mock-up to industrial products for Thales Avionics in Valence, France.
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Toshiaki Tsujii is a head of the Navigation Technology Section, Aviation Program Group, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), where he has been investigating aspects of satellite navigation and positioning for more than 15 years.
From February 2000 to February 2002, he participated in the Satellite Navigation and Positioning (SNAP) Group, University of New South Wales, Australia, as a postdoctoral research fellow.
Tsujii holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and physics from Kyoto University.
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