GRCon'24 Updates!! Schedule, Keynotes

Lots of exciting news about GRCon24 - get all the information gnuradio.org/grcon24

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- The Schedule of talks and workshops has been posted.  More information will be sent directly to presenters with more information about details.

- I want to highlight our Keynote Speakers (Jack Dongarra, Shahriar Sharamian, Philip Erickson) as well as our invited workshop host, Dan Boschen, who will be presenting two workshops on signal processing topics.

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Keynote and Invited Speakers:

Tuesday: Jack Dongarra

Jack Dongarra received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972 and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1980. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist. He now holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee and holds the title of Distinguished Research Staff in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Turing Fellow at Manchester University; an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He is the director of the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee. He is also the director of the Center for Information Technology Research at the University of Tennessee which coordinates and facilitates IT research efforts at the University.

Wednesday: Shahriar Shahramian

Shahriar Shahramian (SM '06) received his Ph.D. degree from University of Toronto in 2010 where he focused on the design of mm-wave data converters and transceivers. Shahriar has been with the Bell Laboratories – Nokia since 2009 and is currently the Director of the Communication & Sensing ASICs Research Group. He is also the chair of the mm-Wave & THz subcommittee of IEEE BCICTS and member of the technical program committee of IEEE RFIC & ISSCC. He is also a guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC). His research focus includes the design of mm-wave wireless and wireline integrated circuits and systems. Shahriar is a Bell Labs Fellow and leads the design and architecture of several state-of-the-art ASICs for optical coherent and wireless backhaul products.

Shahriar has been the recipient of Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto Fellowship and the best paper award at the CSICS Symposium in 2005, 2015 and RFIC Symposium in 2015, 2020 and ISSCC in 2018. He holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position at Columbia University, has received several teaching awards and is the founder and host of The Signal Path educational video series.

Thursday: Philip Erickson

Philip Erickson is director of MIT's Haystack Observatory and a Principal Research Scientist at MIT. MIT Haystack is a multi-disciplinary radio and radar observatory, conducting fundamental research for a variety of sponsors in the fields of radio astronomy, geospace/near-Earth space, very long baseline interferometry, and geodesy. Techniques pioneered at Haystack include active and passive radio-based experiments and data analysis using a variety of remote sensing approaches involving ground- and space-based data. Phil's background concentrates on the experimental techniques, signal processing, and first-principles physics of near-Earth ionospheric (charged) and thermospheric (neutral) remote sensing using high power large aperture radars, software radars and software radio architectures, and plasma physics. Phil also is a co-director of the education and public outreach efforts at MIT Haystack, spanning undergraduate research programs, graduate student interactions, K–12 classroom units and outreach, and public Observatory tours and lectures. He has an electrical engineering background and received a PhD in space plasma physics from Cornell University in 1998.

Invited Workshops: Dan Boschen

Dan Boschen has an MSEE degree in Communications and Signal Processing from Northeastern University, with over 25 years of experience in system and hardware design for radio transceivers and modems. He has held various positions at Signal Technologies (acquired by Crane), MITRE, Airvana (acquired by CommScope) and Hittite Microwave (acquired by Analog Devices) designing and developing transceiver hardware from baseband to antenna for wireless communications systems, and has taught popular courses on DSP for over 15 years. Dan is a contributor to DSPRelated.com and Signal Processing Stack Exchange, and is currently at Microchip leading design efforts for advanced frequency and time solutions.