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Dr. Frank van Graas

Dr. Frank van Graas is a Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Professor in Electrical Engineering and a Principal Investigator with the Avionics Engineering center at Ohio University. Dr. Van Graas has been involved with navigation and timing research since 1983. His research programs include Ground-Based Augmentation Systems (LAAS, JPALS), GPS/Inertial, Transform-domain GPS receiver design, Precise Time and Frequency Transfer, GNSS monitoring and space applications, Terrain-referenced navigation using radar altimeter, LADAR, SAR, Electro-Optical and InfraRed cameras. He is an Ohio University Presidential Research Scholar, a Past President of the Institute of Navigation (ION), Treasurer of The ION, an ION Fellow (2001), recipient of The ION Kepler (1996), Thurlow (2002) and Burka (2010) awards, and the AIAA John Ruth Avionics Award (2010). During 2008-2009, he served as The ION Executive Branch Fellow at NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation office in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Frank van Graas

Dr. Inder J. Gupta

Dr. Inder J. Gupta is a Research Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Principal Investigator in the ElectroScience Laboratory of the Ohio State University. He is a Fellow of IEEE and ION. He is also an Edmond S. Gillespie Fellow of Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA). He received AMTA Distinguish Achievement Award for 2007. He is also the recipient of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s H.A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award for 1991, and the Ohio State University College of Engineering Lumley Research Award for 1991, 1998, 2005 and 2011. During the last fifteen years he has worked extensively on GPS antennas and antenna electronics, and their effects on GPS receiver performance.

 

Dr. Inder J. Gupta

Dr. Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska

Dr. Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska is a Professor in Geodetic Science, and leader of the Satellite Positioning and Inertial Navigation (SPIN) Laboratory at The Ohio State University. Her research interests cover GPS positioning algorithms, GPS/INS integration, navigation in GPS-challenged environments, and multi-sensor geospatial technology. Since 1996, Dr. Brzezinska led over 30 research projects sponsored by DOD, NASA, NGS, NGA, NSF, FDOT, ODOT, AFRL and SERDP with a total budget of over $14 million. She received the 2006 ION Thurlow Award and the 2005 USGIF Academic Achievement Award. She is ION Fellow and President of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) Commission 4, Positioning and Applications.

Dr. Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska

Dr. Jade Morton

Dr. Jade Morton is an electrical engineering Professor at Colorado State University. She received a PhD in electrical engineering from Penn State and was a post doctor research fellow at the University of Michigan, Space Physics Research Laboratory. Prior to join CSU, she was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Miami University. Her research interests are advanced GNSS receiver algorithms for accurate and reliable operations in challenging environments, studies of the atmosphere using radar and satellite signals, and development of new applications using satellite navigation technologies. She was the chair of Institute of Navigation Satellite Division from 2012 to 2014, chaired several international conferences, and serves on a number of other international conference committees and professional society technical committees. She also serves on several technical publications editorial boards. She is currently the technical editor of Navigation Systems for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems. She is a fellow of IEEE and ION, and is the 2014 Institute of Navigation Thurlow Award recipient.

Dr. Jade Morton

Dr. John Raquet

Dr. John Raquet is an Associate Professor and Director of the Advanced Navigation Technology (ANT) Center at the Air Force Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Geomatics Engineering from the University of Calgary and has been involved in navigation-related research since 1991. Dr. Raquet's areas of interest include GPS precise positioning; non-GPS precision navigation; optically-aided navigation; navigation using signals of opportunity; integration of MEMS-based inertial measurement units with other sensors; autonomous vehicle navigation and control; and electromagnetic interference and mitigation techniques affecting GPS performance. In 2010, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland. Dr. Raquet is also a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation (ION).

Dr. John Raquet