Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Neetha Tirmal completed her M.S in software systems from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Pilani, India.
She heads the Navigation Data Processing Section of the Space Navigation Group and is responsible for the interfaces, architecture, design, automation of the IRNSS Central Processing facility, and uplink of the navigation parameters to the IRNSS Satellites.
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Babu Rajaram received his M.Tech in aerospace from IIT, Chennai.
He is the head of the Navigation Determination and Optimization Section of the Space Navigation Group and responsible for orbit and clock estimation, generation of primary navigation parameters, and characterization of two-way CDMA orbits for IRNSS.
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Nirmala Srinivasan obtained her master’s degree in mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai.
She heads the Navigation Modeling and Estimation Division of the ISRO’s Space Navigation Group and is responsible for the ionospheric studies for GAGAN and IRNSS, IRNSS clock characterization, user algorithms, and constellation studies.
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S. C. Ratnakara obtained his master’s degree in Mathematics from Mysore University, Karnataka, India.
He has been working in the fields of space debris simulation, modelling and decay analysis, and IRS position determination using GPS and the satnav program of ISRO.
Ratnakara is the deputy project director for IRNSS and also heads the Space Navigation Group, leading the IRNSS navigation software team.
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A. S. Ganeshan received his master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
He has initiated and led several activities such as space debris modelling, Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) position determination using GPS; re-entry, rendezvous, and docking, and planetary missions.
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Ingo Baumann is co-founder and partner of BHO Legal in Cologne, Germany, a boutique law firm for European high technology projects mainly in the space sector.
Baumann’s client base includes national and European government entities and companies from the aerospace, information technology, telecommunications as well as security and defense industries.
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Amedeo Arena is a tenured assistant professor at the University of Naples “Federico II” School of Law, where he teaches European Union Law and International Law, as well as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Policy.
He graduated in law from the University of Rome, holds LLM degrees from King’s College London and New York University, and completed a Ph.D. and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Naples “Federico II”.
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Iurie Ilie is the chief technical officer and the co-founder of Skydel Solutions.
His recent activities are related to GNSS receiver testing using low-cost approaches.
In the past, he was involved in the design and validation of GPS/GNSS receivers as a research engineer at École de technologie supérieure and as a system engineer at Esterline CMC Electronics.
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Monica Visintin is an associate professor of signal theory and digital communications at Politecnico di Torino.
She received her master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Politecnico di Torino.
Visintin’s main research activities are in the field of satellite and optical communications. She is a member of IEEE.
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Serge Bories received an Engineer Diploma in Electronics in the field of Microwaves from the Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC), in Toulouse, France, and a Ph.D. degree at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA) in Paris, France on the subject of ultrawideband (UWB) antenna design for multimedia communications.
In the last decade, Bories has worked for several national and European R&D projects on UWB systems. Recently he joined the CEA-Leti-Minatec in Grenoble, France.
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Fabio Zacchello is a telecommunication engineer. He is currently employed at Aermatica S.p.A., a UAV manufacturer, as software engineer and remote pilot.
Zacchello focuses on hardware/ software and software/software integration, and his background is with manned and unmanned avionics development.
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Esther López Casariego received her M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cantabria, Spain.
She joined Erzia Space in 2003, participating in European Space Agency–funded research projects dealing with onboard communication systems.
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María Campo-Cossío Gutiérrez received her M.D. in telecommunications engineering and her M.D. in Computation.
She is currently in charge of the Industrial Automation and Robotics unit at the Technological Center of Components, Spain, where she focuses her researching activities on real-time control systems and navigation systems, with GPS navigation being her main area of interest.
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