Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Giorgio Solari is currently serving as Head of GNSS/Safety of Life Innovation & Evolution Strategy and External Coordination Office at the European Space Agency HQ in Paris.
He has been working in the space sector for more than 30 years, serving ESA since 1988.
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Marco Porretta received both the telecommunications Engineering M.Sc. and the Ph.D. in information engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy.
He has more than 10 years of professional experience in telecommunications and navigation systems. This experience includes the development of high-frequency methods for electromagnetic propagation analysis, decision support tools (DST) for air traffic management (ATM), and integrity algorithms for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).
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Stephen R. Smith Jr. is a program manager at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory for efforts involving GPS satellite testing and other space and tactical systems.
He is a graduate of Stanford University and has a M.S. in computer science from the University of Southern California.
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Gary Okerson has a B.S. in physics, from Harvey Mudd College.
From 1995 to the present, he has been a senior research engineer at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA, working with GPS, radio frequency, acoustics, and artificial intelligence.
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Saeed Daneshmand holds a Ph.D. degree in geomatics engineering from the University of Calgary.
Since May 2013 he has been a post-doctoral fellow in the PLAN Group.
Daneshmand’s research interests are in the area of software receivers and signal processing for GNSS.
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Nahal Fadaei received her M.Sc. in geomatics engineering from the University of Calgary.
Her research interests include signal processing in GNSS applications, GNSS software receiver design, and detection and estimation theory.
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Ali Jafarnia Jahromi received his Ph.D. in geomatics engineering from the University of Calgary. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in telecommunications engineering.
He was a post-doctoral fellow in the University of Calgary PLAN group from October 2013 to February 2016 before starting to work in industry.
Jahromi’s research interests include GNSS signal processing and receiver design.
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Manuel Toledo has worked in the GNSS field since 1990. Since 2001 he has been head of the GNSS Applications and Technologies Division at GMV, where he is responsible for the development of GNSS receivers and applications positioning technologies with GNSS and other sensors.
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Marc Solé holds a MSc. degree in telecommunications specialized in communications and a bachelor’s degree in aeronautics, specializing in air navigation, from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC).
He has accumulated more than seven years of experience working at Pildo Labs R&D department, providing support to the development of GNSS-related software and applications.
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Daniel Egea-Roca received the M.Sc. (with honors) in electrical engineering and an M.Sc. degree in micro- and nano-electronics engineering, both from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
From June to October of 2015 he was a visiting research collaborator at Princeton University.
Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the UAB SPCOMNAV group.
His research is focused on GNSS integrity improvements based on quickest detection.
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Jose Lopez-Salcedo received his Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2007.
He is Associate Professor at the Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he is also the Coordinator of the telecommunication engineering studies.
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Raúl Ramos Pollán is professor in large-scale data analytics at the Universidad Industrial de Santander, in Bucaramanga, Colombia.
He achieved a Ph.D. in informatics engineering at the University of Porto.
Ramos Pollán has developed his career in both industry and academy, as director of the computing center at CETA-CIEMAT in Spain, software engineer at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, and a Java architect at Sun Microsystems, Switzerland.
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Fabio A. Gonzalez is an associate professor in the Department of Computing Systems and Industrial Engineering at the National University of Colombia, where he leads the Machine Learning, Perception and Discovery Lab (MindLab).
He earned a computing systems Engineer degree and an M.Sc. in mathematics degree from the National University of Colombia, and an M.Sc and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Memphis, USA.
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