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Andriy Konovaltsev

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

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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Beatrice Motella

Beatrice Motella received the Ph. D. in electronics and communications engineering from Politecnico di Torino.

Currently, she is a researcher at the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella.

Although her studies cover various aspects of GNSS technologies, her main research topic is focused on radio frequency interference monitoring.

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Jahshan Bhatti

Jahshan A. Bhatti is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also received his B.S.

His research interests are in development of small satellites, software-defined radio applications, and GNSS technologies.

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Kaveh Pahlavan

Kaveh Pahlavan is a professor of electrical and computer engineering, a professor of computer science, and director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts.

He is also a visiting Professor of Telecommunication Laboratory and Center for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, and the chief technical advisor of Skyhook Wireless, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Christopher Steger

Christopher Steger is a systems engineer at Skyhook Wireless, where he designs algorithms for Wi-Fi, cellular, and hybrid positioning systems.

He received his Ph.D. from the Center for Multimedia Communications at Rice University in 2008 with a specialization in the information theoretic analysis of training and feedback for wireless communication systems.

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Mohammad Heidari

Mohammad Heidari is a research engineer at Skyhook Wireless focusing on hybrid Wi-Fi positioning and its challenges.

His research interests are analysis of dynamic behavior of WiFi and hybrid positioning systems, indoor geolocation applications, wireless sensor networks, and UWB channel measurement and modeling.

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Ted Morgan

Ted Morgan is the CEO and founder of Skyhook Wireless.

He founded Skyhook with Michael Shean in 2003 to capitalize on the explosive growth of Wi-Fi usage and the emerging demand for location-based services.

Prior to founding Skyhook, Morgan was the vice-president of marketing for edocs Inc., a provider of customer self-service solutions that was sold to Siebel Systems in January 2005. At edocs, he ran marketing communications, inside sales, product marketing, and product management.

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Yunxing Ye

Yunxing Ye is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).

He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from WPI.

His current research interests include cooperative robot localization and body area network (BAN).

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Ferit Ozan Akgul

Ferit Ozan Akgul is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

He received his B.S. degree from Middle East Technical University and his M.S. degree from Koc University in Turkey.

He is currently working as a research assistant on RF-based indoor geolocation and indoor channel characterization with a particular focus on multipath-aided precise indoor ranging.

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Mohammed Khider

Mohammed Khider received his masters degree in communications technology from the University Of Ulm, Germany.

He obtained his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering/communications from the UAE University, United Arab Emirates.

He is currently with the German Aerospace Center and a Ph.D. student at the University of Ulm.

His research interests are navigation, multi-sensor fusion, mobility models, signal processing, and context-aware services.

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