Christopher Hegarty

The MITRE Corporation

Dr. Christopher Hegarty is a Technical Fellow with The MITRE Corporation, where he has worked mainly on aviation communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) systems since 1992. He is the Chair of the RTCA Program Management Committee and co-chairs RTCA Special Committee 159 (GNSS). He served as president of the U.S. Institute of Navigation (ION) in 2008 and is a Fellow of both the ION and IEEE. He is co-author of the textbook Understanding GPS/GNSS: Principles and Applications, 3rd Ed., and contributed GPS chapters to CRC Press’ Digital Avionics Handbook, 3rd Ed., and Springer’s Handbook of Global Navigation Satellite Systems.

 

Fabio Dovis

Politecnico di Torino

Fabio Dovis is a full professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, where he coordinates the Navigation Signal Analysis and Simulation – NavSAS – group. His research addresses the design of GNSS receivers, and advanced signal processing against GNSS impairments. He authored more than 80 journal papers and more than 170 papers in conference proceedings. He serves as vice-chair IEEE AESS navigation systems panel and he is a member of the GNSS Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Space Agency. He is also associated to the Italian Space Agency, as scientific and technical support and Galileo/EGNOS ambassador of the EU Space network. He has a relevant experience in international collaborative projects as well as cooperation with industries and research centers.

 

Henk Wymeersch

Chalmers University of Technology

Henk Wymeersch (IEEE Fellow, 2024) is Professor of Communication Systems in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering/Applied Sciences from Ghent University, Belgium (2005), and was a postdoctoral researcher with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT (2005–2009). He has served in editorial roles for IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Communications, and is currently on the editorial board of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He was an IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer (2019–2021). He leads the CROSSNET group at Chalmers, advancing wireless communication technologies through the lens of positioning and sensing.

 

Miguel Manteiga

ESA – Galileo Programme Office

Miguel Manteiga Bautista is the Head of the Galileo Programme Office, inside the Directorate of Navigation of the European Space Agency. He holds a Master in Science degrees on Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Valencia and an International Executive Master on Business Administration from the IE Business School. Throughout the last 25 years, he has developed his career in the Galileo Programme, in a wide variety of positions covering all areas of the space environment (space, ground, user, launcher, system, security and operations). In 2015, he took over the position of GNSS/Galileo Evolution Programme Manager to develop the G2 Phase A/B activities, he was appointed as Galileo Second Generation Project Manager in 2020 and Programme Manager in charge of ESA Galileo activities in 2024. He is responsible for the overall set of activities related to Galileo Programme in ESA, through the relevant ESA and EU Financial Frameworks in collaboration with European Commission and European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA).

Pau Closas

Northeastern University

Pau Closas is an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston MA. He received the MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from UPC in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He also has a MS in Advanced Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering from UPC, 2014. His primary areas of interest include statistical signal processing and machine learning, with main applications to positioning and localization systems. He is the recipient of the EURASIP Best PhD Thesis Award 2014, the 9th Duran Farell Award for Technology Research, the 2016 ION's Early Achievements Award, 2019 NSF CAREER Award, the IEEE AESS Harry Rowe Mimno Award in 2022, and Northeastern's 2023 COE Faculty Fellow. He is the current EiC of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, has served in multiple editorial roles (e.g. NAVIGATION, Proc. IEEE, IEEE Trans. Veh. Tech., and IEEE Sig. Process. Mag.) and conference organization committees (e.g. NAVICON, EUSIPCO, ICASSP, SSP, or PLANS). He is the Chief Scientist of Albora Technologies.

Gary Berz

Eurocontrol

Head of Navigation at EUROCONTROL. Gary serves as Vice Chair of ICAO Navigation Systems Panel, and led the standardization of Advanced RAIM for service type A (Horizontal ARAIM). He also chairs EUROCAE WG107, DME Infrastructure supporting PBN, and leads or contributes to various of initiatives on GNSS RF interference mitigation and robust multi-sensor navigation development.While working at EUROCONTROL for 19 years already, his professional experience includes skyguide, the Swiss Air Navigation Service Provider, the United States Naval Air Systems Command and RUAG Aerospace. He has obtained engineering degrees from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and Ohio University (Avionics Engineering Center).

 

Rui Zuo

Eutelsat

Dr Rui Zuo has over 15 years of experience as a System Architect or System Engineer in the GNSS and space industry, working on GNSS chipset design for consumer markets, high-precision GNSS and timing applications, and LEO PNT system and service development from space. He received his PhD in communication and radar systems from the University of Birmingham, UK, and has worked for ST-Ericsson, Intel UK and US, Telespazio, and u-blox since 2011. He is now the Principal Engineer as the PNT technical lead at Eutelsat (OneWeb before merger) since 2022.

 

Roberto Prieto

ESA – LEO-PNT Project

Roberto Prieto‑Cerdeira is Head of the LEO‑PNT / Celeste Programme at the European Space Agency (ESA), following his role as Project Manager for the LEO‑PNT In‑Orbit Demonstrators, where he led the preparatory activities to demonstrate low‑Earth‑orbit PNT concepts in Europe. He has been involved in the Galileo and EGNOS programmes since 2004, including recently his role as Galileo Second Generation Payload Manager and leading Galileo technology evolution activities. Roberto has co‑authored over 100 technical publications and has contributed to international expert and standardisation groups including ITU, 3GPP, ICG, SBAS IWG and URSI.