Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Stefan Erker received his diploma degree in communication technology at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
In 2007 he joined the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) at Oberpfaffenhofen.
He mainly works on the topics of GNSS verification and corresponding signal analysis.
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Gabriel Wong is an Electrical Engineering Ph.D. candidate at the Stanford University GPS Research Laboratory.
He has previously received an M.S.(EE) from Stanford University, and a B.S.(EECS) from UC Berkeley.
His current research involves signal deformation monitoring for GNSS signals.
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R. Eric Phelts, Ph.D., is a research engineer in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University.
He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
His research involves signal deformation monitoring techniques and analysis for SBAS, GBAS, and the GPS Evolutionary Architecture Study (GEAS).
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Boris V. Shebshaevich graduated from Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute (now St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI”) as an engineer in radio technology and since 1975 has permanently been with Russian Institute of Radionavigation and Time.
There he has progressively passed positions from junior researcher to CEO and chief designer and has been awarded the candidate of science degree in radar and navigation.
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Valery P. Ipatov graduated from Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute (now St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI”) with the diploma of engineer in radio technology where he later received the candidate of science and doctor of science degrees in the field of radar and navigation.
Since 1964 he had been with LETI as a researcher, postgraduate student, assistant professor, associate professor, professor and head of department.
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Takuji Ebinuma received his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
He is currently a senior researcher at the University of Tokyo, Japan, specializing in spaceborne GNSS receiver design for small satellites.
He participated in designing the iPRx receiver and conducting verification tests.
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Bryan Townsend has more than 20 years experience in various GNSS fields including receiver design, ground- and space-based augmentation systems, and real-time kinematic positioning as well as terrestrial-based systems.
He has authored and co-authored more then 50 papers on these subjects.
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Ivan Petrovski is a principal at iP-Solutions, a Japanese based company founded in 2007 to develop intellectual property (IP), products for R&D and professional services in the GNSS area.
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Benedikt von Wulfen holds a Dipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering and has been employed as a research engineer at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute of Flight Guidance, since 2007.
He works in the navigation department of the institute in the field of satellite navigation systems and testbeds.
Michael Meurer, Ph.D., is the head of the Department of Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute for Communications and Navigation, and the coordinating director of the DLR Center of Excellence for Satellite Navigation.
He received the diploma and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Since 2005 he has been an associate professor (PD) at the same university.
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Marcos V. T. Heckler received his BSc. degree in electrical engineering from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil, and his MSc. degree in electronics engineering from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos, Brazil.
Since 2003, he has been working towards his Ph.D. and on several research projects as a research associate at the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
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Andriy Konovaltsev is a research associate at the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
He received his engineer diploma and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kharkov State Technical University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine.
His research interests are in array processing for satellite navigation systems, signal processing algorithms for navigation receivers including synchronization, multipath ,and radio interference mitigation.
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Meiko Steen holds a Dipl.-Ing. in aerospace engineering and since 2005 has been employed as a research engineer at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Institute of Flight Guidance where he works in the navigation department in the field of inertial, satellite, and integrated navigation.
He is currently especially involved in the institute’s GBAS activities.
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