3rd Invitational Workshop on
Opportunistic RF Localization for Next Generation Wireless Devices
    Colocated with

geolocation and emergence of indoor applications

May 7, 2012
Marriott Hotel at the Convention Center
New Orleans, LA, USA

                                                                                    
 
 
Biographies

General Chair:

jalalKaveh Pahlavan
CWINS - WPI
 

Kaveh Pahlavan, is a Professor of ECE, a Professor of CS, and Director of the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. He is also a visiting Professor of Telecommunication Laboratory and Center for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland and the chief technical advisor of the Skyhook Wireless, Boston, MA. His area of research is localization using signals of opportunity and location aware broadband sensor and adhoc networks. He has contributed to numerous seminal technical and visionary publications in wireless office information networks, home networking, and non-GPS geolocation. He is the principal author of the Wireless Information Networks (with Allen Levesque), John Wiley and Sons, 1995, 2ed Ed. 2005, Principles of Wireless Networks – A Unified Approach (with P. Krishnamurthy), Prentice Hall, 2002, Networking Fundamentals: Wide, Local, and Personal Communications (with P. Krishnamurthy), Wiley 2009. Before joining WPI, he was the director of advanced development at Infinite Inc., Andover, Mass. working on data communications. He started his career as an assistant Professor at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Wireless Information Networks, the first journal in modern wireless networks established in 1994 and a member of the advisory board of the IEEE Wireless Magazine. He was the founder, the program chairman and organizer of the IEEE Wireless LAN Workshop, Worcester, in 1991, 1996, and 2001; organizer and technical program chairman of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, Boston, MA, in 1992 and 1998; co-chair of the International Workshop on Ultra Wideband Systems, Oulu, Finland, 2003; co-chair of the International Workshop on Wireless Adhoc Network, Oulu, Finland, 2004; and the chairman of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Adhoc Sensor Systems, 2005. He has also been selected as a member of the Committee on Evolution of Untethered Communication, US National Research Council, 1997 and has lead the US review team for the Finnish R&D Programs in Electronic and Telecommunication in 1999 and NETs project in 2003. For his contributions to the wireless networks he was the Westin Hadden Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI during 1993-1996, was elected as a fellow of the IEEE in 1996 and became the first non-Finn fellow of the Nokia in 1999. From May to December of 2000 he was the first Fulbright-Nokia scholar at the University of Oulu, Finland.

 

 

Luncheon Keynote Speaker:

jalalJalal Mapar
DHS Science and Technology, USA
 

Presentation Title: Indoor Geolocation for Public Safety Applications

Mr. Mapar is a Program Manager at the DHS Science and Technology Directorate. He manages a portfolio of S&T programs that provide a diverse set of technologies to contribute towards the nation’s emergency preparedness and response mission. After joining DHS in 2005 he started several new R&D programs, most notably precision indoor location tracking, to deliver technology solutions for the end users in the emergency preparedness and response communities. Mr. Mapar has been recognized by DHS S&T for his leadership in delivering technologies to customers across DHS and establishing collaborations with several universities, national labs, US and international government agencies. He is a member of the JSDE Executive Board, Panelist/Session Organizer/Chair at IEEE, ION, JNC, TCIP, and other conferences, and a frequent speaker on topics related to indoor location tracking.
Prior to joining DHS in 2005, he was a VP/Division Manager in the RDT&E Group at SAIC in McLean, VA. Mr. Mapar holds a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

 

 

Executive Panel Chair:

jukkaAyman Naguib
Director of Engineering, Qualcomm Research, Silicon Valley, USA
 

Ayman Naguib received the B.Sc. degree (with honors) and the M.S.EE degree in electrical engineering from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1987 and 1990, respectively, and the M.S. degree in statistics and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. From 1996 to 2000, Ayman was a principal member of technical staff at AT&T Shannon Labs, where he, along with his colleagues at AT&T Labs, pioneered the field space-time coding. From September 2000 to August 2002, he was with Morphics Technology, Inc. In October 2002, Ayman joined Qualcomm, Inc, where he is now a Director of Engineering with Qualcomm Research, Silicon Valley (QRSV), where his currently leading indoor positioning and navigation research activities. Ayman’s 1998 IEEE JSAC paper on space time coding was selected by the IEEE Communication Society as one of the 50 fundamental papers ever published by the IEEE Communication Society. His 2003 IEEE JSAC paper won the best paper award. He has 32 issued US patents, over 70 pending patent applications, and more than 50 book chapter, conference, and journal publications. Ayman served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions On Communications from 2002 to 2007, and as a guest editor to a number of IEEE transactions. In December 2006, Ayman was named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to space-time coding and signal processing and wireless communications. His current research interests are statistical learning, location determination, and indoor positioning.

 

 

Executive Panelists:

jukkaJukka Rantala
Director for Network and Service Innovations, Nokia
 

Presentation title: High Accuracy Indoor Positioning - Technology Solution and Business Implications

Jukka Rantala is affiliated to Nokia as Director for Network and Service Innovations, driving commercialization of front-end R&D. Previously in Nokia he has had different roles in R&D management and business development. Additionally Jukka has been working in R&D administration in Finnish and EU level, and as university lecturer and adjunct professor. He holds PhD degree from University of Helsinki and Executive MBA from Helsinki School of Economics.

 

 

 

tedTed Morgan
CEO & Founder, Skyhook
 

Presentation Title: The Business Challenges of Indoor Location

Ted Morgan 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, Mr. 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. Prior to edocs, Mr. Morgan was Group Product Manager for Open Market, one of the early leaders of the e-commerce revolution. Prior to that, he was a product manager for Harbinger Net Services in Atlanta. Prior to the technology industry, Mr. Morgan spent four years in the financial services industry, as part of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Alliance Capital, and Allen & Company. Mr. Morgan has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

 

 

cormacCormac Conroy
VP Engineering, Qualcomm

Presentation Title: Challenges and Opportunities for Location Technology in the Mobile Industry and Ecosystem
 

Cormac Conroy received the PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1994 from UC Berkeley, and worked at multiple companies in Silicon Valley. In 2001, he co-founded Berkäna Wireless – a company developing highly integrated RF CMOS transceivers for cell phones. Berkäna was acquired by Qualcomm in 2006 and its technology was widely deployed across Qualcomm mobile phone platforms. Cormac is currently Vice President at Qualcomm, and leads the technology and product development, as well as associated product management and business development, for all of Qualcomm’s GPS/GNSS and end-to-end location technology and products. He is based in Santa Clara, California.

 

 

 

anttiAntti Korhonen
President & CEO, Ekahau, Inc.

Presentation Title: Real-time tracking of assets and people - over the existing enterprise Wi-Fi network
 

About Ekahau - For over 10 years, since year 2000, Ekahau has been the center of innovation for Wi-Fi based software and Real Time Location Systems - birthplace of the first commercially available Wi-Fi based location tracking system, the first visual Wi-Fi site survey tool, and the next-generation Wi-Fi tag family. Ekahau is U.S. Delaware Corporation, headquartered in Reston, VA, and has other offices in Saratoga, CA Helsinki, Finland, and Hong Kong, China.
About Antti Korhonen - Antti has over 20 years of experience in high tech and IT industries and executive leadership, and has been leading Ekahau worldwide operation now for 10 years. Prior to joining Ekahau in January 2002, Antti worked at Vaisala Inc. Boston office as the General Manager of Vaisala’s Industrial Business Division. Antti is an active speaker and panelist at key industry forums on topics including RFID, RTLS and Wi-Fi based technologies and applications.

 

 

 

Technology Panel Moderator:

misraPratap Misra
Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University
 

Pratap Misra is a research associate professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts University. He has been active in research on satellite-based navigation for over 20 years, with focus on civil aviation applications. A Fellow of the Institute of Navigation (ION) and a Fellow of the IEEE, he has served as Chair of the ION Satellite Division, and is the coauthor (with Professor Per Enge of Stanford University) of a widely used graduate-level engineering textbook on GPS (www.GPStextbook.com).

 

 

 

Technology Panelists:

frankFrank van Diggelen
Senior Technical Director for GPS, Broadcom
 

Presentation Title: The central role of GPS in ubiquitous location

Dr. Frank van Diggelen is Senior Technical Director for GPS at Broadcom, and is a consulting Professor at Stanford University where he teaches a graduate class on GPS. He received the Institute of Navigation Thurlow Award for “the outstanding contribution to the science of navigation in 2010”, and is a member of the ION executive committee (2012-13). He is the author of the bestselling text book on A-GPS “A-GPS, Assisted GPS, GNSS and SBAS”. He holds over sixty issued US patents on A-GPS and has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cambridge University.

 

 

 

lionelLionel Garin
Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm Inc.

Presentation Title: Perspectives and Challenges to Deliver Ubiquitous Indoor Positioning
 

Dr Lionel J. Garin is currently Senior Director of Technology, at Qualcomm Inc., based in Santa Clara California, leading the Indoor Positioning and Navigation engineering efforts.
He has been involved in GPS and GNSS industry for more than 20 years, starting in 1989 with Ashtech , in the surveying business where he has been one of the co-inventors and of the implementers of the Z semi-codeless technology. He held several positions there, one as of Z-surveyor project manager, the successor of the well known Z12. Another position was head of system engineering team, focusing on multipath technology for surveying applications, where he has been quite involved in the ideation, and the implementation of the “Strobe Correlator” (also known as “Double Delta Correlator”).
He moved on to SiRF in 1998, in the consumer business, where he developed the system and algorithms team, internally pioneering the A-GPS technology, then moving on to develop the High Sensitivity Concept and technologies, server based extended ephemeris, and introduce the client based or opportunistic ephemeris predictions.
He joined NemeriX in 2006, a Swiss based company as the CTO. He created there a novel alternate solution to the extended ephemeris, the NEX technology, and promoted the use of sensors for urban canyons and indoor positioning, including the pressure sensors for multipath mitigation.
He has more than 40 patent either granted, or applications filed, in the domain of the A-GPS, Multipath mitigation, extended ephemeris predictions, sensor hybridization, and Indoor Positioning.
He holds a PhD in Geomatics from University of Calgary (2010), an MSEE equivalent degree in Digital Communications, System Control and Estimation Theory from ENST (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications) Paris , France and BS in Fundamental Physics from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris France.

 

 

dinesh Dinesh Manandhar
Senior Researcher, GNSS Technology Inc, Japan

Presentation Title: IMES - The ultimate solution for 3-D Indoor Position.

 

Dinesh Manandhar is a Senior Researcher at GNSS Technologies Inc. He is also a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo. He received Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo in 2001. He is one of the developers of IMES message structure and is currently involved in developing indoor navigation system based on IMES for seamless navigation. He has served Japan-US QZSS IMES Sub-Working Committee in the past. His research area includes software receiver, indoor navigation and GNSS signal authentication.

 

 

 

chris Christopher Steger
Director of Systems Engineering, Skyhook, USA

Presentation Title: Scalable Indoor Positioning

 

As the Director of Systems Engineering at Skyhook, Christopher Steger is responsible for algorithms that grow, maintain, and enhance the performance of Skyhook's positioning systems. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University in 2008 under the direction of Behnaam Aazhang and Ashutosh Sabharwal with research focused on information theory applied to wireless communications.

 

 

 

Standardization Panel Moderator:

kirkIftekhar Rahman
Verizon Wireless
 

Iftekhar Rahman has been working in Research and Development in the field of communications and communication networks for over 30 years. Since 1998, he has also been working in wireless location technologies, location networks, location protocols and device location software/firmware. He is one of the principal contributors to the industry accepted “CDG Test Plan Document for Location Determination Technologies”. He has published in the I. E. E. E. Transactions on Communications, has been awarded 11 patents by the USPTO and the European Patent Office and has filed an additional 12 patents with the USPTO in communications, wireless location and wireless device security. He has a Ph.D. in E. E. from Northeastern University and has worked in AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories and GTE/Verizon Labs. He is currently employed as a Principal Engineer in Product Development – Device Technology by Verizon Wireless.

 

 

Standardization Panelists:

kirkKirk Burroughs
Sr. Director of Technology, Qualcomm Engineering Services Group

Presentation Title: Discussion on Indoor Location Standards
 

Kirk Burroughs, a Sr. Directory of Technology for QUALCOMM Engineering Services Group since 1999, provides system engineering support for both the QUALCOMM gpsOne™ and the QUALCOMM’s QPoint product lines. He is also a representative for QUALCOMM at the 3GPP, 3GPP2, and OMA standards bodies. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley and a MS in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University.

 

 

 

steveSteve Howser
Solutions Consultant, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)

Presentation Title: Bridging non-standard positoning methods with standard positioning methods in cellular standards: Opportunities and Challenges
 

Steve Howser has worked in the LBS and E911 industries since 2000 and is currently with Nokia Siemens Networks working on positioning solutions for LTE carriers. His background includes participating in standards committees and industry forums for Location, including the 3GPP, OMA, CDG, NENA and ATIS ESIF. He holds a Master of Engineering degree from City University London.

 

 

 

naderNader Moayeri
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Presentation Title: Test and Evaluation of Localization and Tracking Systems
 

Dr. Nader Moayeri has been with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since 1997, where he founded and managed the Wireless Communications Technologies Group for 11 years. His present research interests are in mission-critical networking and situation-awareness. Specifically, he is engaged in projects dealing with indoor localization for first responders, miners, and positioning and navigation for various military applications, post-incident communications in various structures, including underground mines, sensor network standardization, and cognitive radio networks.
Dr. Moayeri was with the Imaging Technology Department at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, from 1994 to 1997 and on the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, from 1986 to 1994. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Systems from the University of Michigan in 1986.

 

 

 


Application Panel Moderator:

farshidFarshid Alizadeh
Chief Scientist, Skyhook , USA
 

As a member of Skyhook's executive team, Dr. Alizadeh-Shabdiz is responsible for the research & development of Skyhook's positioning technology. Dr. Alizadeh-Shabdiz has 20 years of industrial experience in the design and implementation of satellite and wireless networks. Dr. Alizadeh-Shabdiz was a proud member of the design and implementation team of the first three satellite-based mobile networks at Hughes Network Systems: ICO, Thuraya and Inmarsat. He proposed the first complete analytical model to carry out an analysis of single-hop and multi-hop ad hoc networks and 802.11 based on WLANs. Dr. Alizadeh-Shabdiz is on the faculty of Boston University and received his Ph.D. from George Washington University and M.Sc. from Tehran University.


 


Application Panelists:

jagdishJagdish Girimaji
Sr. Manager, Product Marketing, Cisco

Presentation Title: Challenges & opportunities of accurate indoor positioning using Wi-Fi
 

Jagdish Girimaji is currently a Sr. Manager, Product Marketing in the Wireless Networking Business Unit at Cisco. He has spent the last 12 years at Cisco in various Product Management roles. Prior to Cisco Jagdish was a Business Development Manager at CellNet Data Systems. Jagdish has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada and a Certificate in Marketing from University of California at Berkeley.


 

 

 

kirkNaser El-Sheimy
Professor and Canada Research Chair
CEO, Trusted Positioning Inc
President, ISPRS Commission I
Department of Geomatics Engineering, The University of Calgary

Presentation Title: The Promise of MEMS to LBS and Navigation Applications
 

Dr. Naser El-Sheimy is Professor and former Head of the Department of Geomatics Engineering, the University of Calgary. He is the CEO of Trusted Positioning Inc., Calgary. He holds a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Mobile Multi-sensor Systems and the scientific director of Tecterra Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research. His research expertise includesGeomatics multi-sensor systems, GPS/INS integration, and mobile mapping systems.
Dr. El-Sheimy published two books and over 350 papers in academic journals, conference and workshop proceedings, in which he has received over 30 national and international paper awards. He supervised and graduated over 35 Masters and PhD students. He is the recipient of many national and international awards including the ASTech “Leadership in Alberta Technology” Award the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) Educational Excellence Award.Dr. El-Sheimy is the president of Commission I on "Sensors and Platforms" of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).He organized and participated in organizing many national and international conferences and chaired many conferencessuch as the USA Institute of Navigation Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Dr. El-Sheimy is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Survey Review, Journal of Applied Geodesy, and Coordinates. He served as a member of the Alberta Geomatics Group Board of Directors, Geoide NCE Board of Directors, Technical Committee Member of the ASPRS Direct Georeferencing Committee.


 

valaeeShahrokh Valaee
University of Toronto, Canada

Presentation Title: Anonymous Localization of Wireless Terminals
 

Shahrokh Valaee received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Tehran, and the PhD degree from McGill University, all in electrical engineering. From 1994 to 1995, he was a Research Associate at INRS Telecom, University of Quebec.From 1996 to 2001, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, and the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology. Since 2001 he has been a faculty member of the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada, where he is the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, holds the Nortel Institute Junior Chair of Communication Networks and is the Director of the Wireless and Internet Research Laboratory (WIRLab). Prof. Valaee is an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and anAssociate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He is the TPC Co-Chair and the Chair of the Organizing Committee of IEEE PIMRC 2011. He was the Co-Chair for the Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, a Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, a Guest Editor for Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and a Guest Editor of EURASIPJournal on Advances in Signal Processing. His current research is focused on location estimation, wireless vehicular and sensor networks, and cellular systems.


 

valaeeXinrong Li
Associate Professor, University of North Texas

Presentation Title: Collaborative Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
 

Xinrong Li received a B.E. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1995, a M.E. degree from the National University of Singapore in 1999, and a Ph.D. degree from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, Mass, USA, in 2003, all in electrical engineering. From 2003 to 2004, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Wireless Information Network Studies, WPI. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Tex, USA, as an Assistant Professor in 2004, and then, he became an Associate Professor in 2010. His recent research has been focused on statistical signal processing theory and its applications in wireless and sensor network systems. He is also interested in the development of wireless sensor network systems for practical applications.

 

 

 

 

 
   

 

                      
   
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