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Charly Poulliat

Charly Poulliat received an electrical engineering degree from ENSEA, Cergy-Pontoise, France, an M.Sc. degree in signal and image processing from the University of Cergy-Pontoise and his Ph.D. degree in signal processing for digital communications from the University of Cergy-Pontoise.

Since 2011, Poulliat has been a professor with the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (ENSEEIHT – University of Toulouse). He has been the head of the Signal and Communications Group of the IRIT Laboratory since 2013.

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Marie-Laure Boucheret

Marie-Laure Boucheret received the electrical engineering degree from ENST Bretagne and a Ph.D. degree in communications from TELECOM ParisTech.

She has been a successful research engineer at the French Philips Research Laboratory (1985–1986), engineer at Thales Alenia Space in telecommunication and transmission (1986–1991), associated professor then a Professor at TELECOM ParisTech (1991–2005).

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Marion Aubault-Roudier

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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