Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Marion Aubault-Roudier is a radionavigation engineer in the navigation/location signals department in CNES, the French Space Agency, where she is involved in the optimization of GNSS signals as wells as the assessment of GNSS user segments (receivers, algorithms).
Roudier graduated as an electronics engineer from ENAC (Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile) in Toulouse, France.
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Axel Garcia-Peña is a researcher/lecturer with the SIGnal processing and NAVigation (SIGNAV) research group of the TELECOM lab of École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC, French Civil Aviation University), Toulouse, France.
He received his double engineer degree in digital communications from SUPAERO and UPC, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Telecommunications of the INPT (Polytechnic National Institute of Toulouse), France.
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Alberto Fernández Wyttenbach is market innovation officer in the European GNSS Agency (GSA)
At the GSA, he contributes to the promotion of Galileo and EGNOS benefits, and the implementation of actions to accelerate the adoption of European satellite navigation services in specific road transportation segments, in particular, logistics, distance-based charging, eCall, and connected vehicles.
Prior to joining the GSA, he held consulting and business development positions in the geospatial industry.
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Fiammetta Diani is deputy head of market development at the European GNSS Agency (GSA) where she has worked since 2009.
Before joining the GSA, she worked in the private sector for more than 10 years, in both the aerospace and information technology industries, gaining extensive experience in applications of space-based technologies for the transport sector.
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Demetrios Matsakis is chief scientist for Time Services at the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO).
He has worked on most aspects of timekeeping, and served as head of the USNO’s Time Service Department for 17 years.
Matsakis received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Pascale Defraigne received her Ph.D. in physics at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium.
She is now head of the Time Laboratory at the Royal Observatory of Belgium.
Defraigne currently chairs the working group on GNSS Time Transfer of the Consultative Committee of Time and Frequency.
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Athindran Ramesh Kumar received his B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
He completed his M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Upamanyu Madhow is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSB.
His research interests span wireless communication, signal processing, bio-inspired design, and machine learning. He actively engages in technology transfer of his academic research.
He is a founder of ShadowMaps, where he is working on algorithms, intellectual property, and commercialization strategy for localization and mapping based on GNSS shadow matching.
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Danny Iland is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
His research focuses on cellular and wireless networking, off-grid rural networks, and network measurements and analysis.
He is a founder of ShadowMaps, where he is developing mobile applications and scalable cloud services for localization and mapping based on GNSS shadow matching.
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Andrew Irish is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
His research interests include mapping and localization, machine learning, signal processing, and wireless communication.
He is a founder of ShadowMaps, a UCSB spinoff commercializing localization and 3D mapping based on GNSS shadow matching, where he is taking the lead in implementing and scaling GNSS SNR–based localization and mapping techniques.
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Dmitrii Fedorov, Ph.D., is the deputy head of department at the Russian Institute of Radionavigation and Time (RIRT).
He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation and has been working for “RIRT” since 1976.
He is an expert in the field of space navigation and synchronization.
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Arkadii Tiuliakov is the deputy general director of the Russian Institute of Radionavigation and Time (RIRT) in St. Petersburg, Russia.
He graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation and has been working for RIRT since 1967.
He is an expert in the field of synchronization systems of space and ground complexes.
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Ivan Skakun received a M.Sc degree in applied physics and mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
He has been involved in GNSS research since 2010.
His area of research includes high-accuracy GNSS orbit and clock products and their applications.
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