Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Andrei Dorobantu received his B.S. from Cornell University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
His academic research was centered on flight control, system identification, and model validation for small UAVs.
Dorobantu now works in the advanced development servo group at Seagate Technology.
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Adhika Lie is currently a Ph.D. candidate in aerospace engineering at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
His general research area is in sensing, navigation, and estimation. Lie’s previous work includes aircraft parameter estimation, GPS-based attitude heading reference system, and INS/GNSS fusion architectures.
Lie’s dissertation focused on designing a synthetic air data system to improve the reliability of existing air data systems.
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Bin Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University.
He received his B.S. degree in Department of Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University.
Huang’s current research focuses on real-time GNSS software receiver and cooperative positioning and navigation. He is one of the main members of STARx Project.
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Zheng Yao is an assistant professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. He is the project leader of STARx.
He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees with honor from Tsinghua University.
Yao’s research interests include GNSS signal structure design and performance evaluation, cooperative positioning, as well as GNSS receiver design.
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Fu Guo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University.
He received his B.S. degree in Collage of Electronic Science and Engineering from Jilin University.
Guo’s current research focuses on interoperability and multisystem navigation.
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Shihai Deng is a postgraduate student in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University.
He received his B.S. degree in Department of Electronic Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology.
Deng’s work focuses primarily on GNSS raw data acquisition systems.
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Xiaowei Cui received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University and now is an associate professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University.
His research interests include statistical signal processing for wireless communication and GNSS receiver design.
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Mingquan Lu is a professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University.
He received his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, China.
Lu’s research interests include wireless networks, satellite communication and navigation, and signal processing.
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Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes holds a B.Sc. in cartographic engineering and an M.Sc. in computer science (IME 1997), and a Ph.D. in geomatics engineering from the University of Calgary.
He has worked for the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics since 1982 and also as an associate professor at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro since 2005.
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Tao Lin holds a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in geomatics engineering from the University of Calgary where he works as a post-doctoral fellow and senior research associate in PLAN group at University of Calgary.
His research expertise includes GNSS software receiver and navigation algorithm design.
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Michele Bavaro received his master degree in computer science from the University of Pisa, Italy.
Shortly afterwards he started his work on software defined radio technologies applied to navigation, first in Italy, then in The Netherlands at the European Space Agency. In the United Kingdom he worked for NSL on several projects being directly involved with the design, manufacture, integration, and test of radionavigation satellite system (RDSS) equipment and supporting customers in the development of their applications.
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Urs Hugentobler is a full professor at the Institute for Astronomical and Physical Geodesy of Technische Universität München, Germany, and head of the Research Establishment Satellite Geodesy.
His research activities focus on precise applications of GNSS such as positioning, precise orbit determination, reference frame realization, and time transfer.
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Leoš Mervart received his first Ph.D. from the Astronomical Institute, University of Bern and his second Ph.D. from the TU Prague.
In 2002 he was appointed professor of geodesy at the TU Prague where he currently leads the Department of Geomatics.
Mervart is working with GPS Solutions Inc. on the development of the RTNet software and with BKG on the development of the BKG Ntrip Client (BNC) software.
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