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2024 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes those who published a paper in 2024 or later.
Patent for Closed-Loop GNSS Simulation
ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas was awarded a patent for “System for closed-loop GNSS simulation.”
PhD Spotlight: Julian Gutierrez, PhD’24, Computer Engineering
Julian Gutierrez, PhD’24, computer engineering, focused research on the development of a new class of high-performance algorithms used in Global Navigation Satellite Systems. After graduating, he joined as a computer research engineer at the Safety Critical Avionics Systems Branch at NASA Langley Research Center.
PhD Spotlight: Haoqing Li, PhD’24, Electrical Engineering
Haoqing Li, PhD’24, electrical engineering, focused research on robust signal processing and statistical machine learning, with applications in satellite-based positioning systems and satellite-based image remote sensing. His technical contributions were published in more than two dozen peer-reviewed publications.
Closas Elected Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine
The IEEE AESS Board of Governors selected ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas to serve as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) for the IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Magazine from July 2024 to June 2027.
$1.4M NSF Award for Advancing Worldwide Navigation Security With Distributed AI
ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas and Assistant Research Professor Tales Imbiriba, in collaboration with Tampere University and the University of Vaasa in Finland, were awarded a $1.4 million NSF award for “Distributed AI for Enhanced Security in Satellite-aided Wireless Navigation (RESILIENT).”
Kostas Research Institute Receives $13M U.S. Army Contract for Wireless Research
The Kostas Research Institute (KRI) at Northeastern University has been awarded $13 million by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory for foundational research into Cognitive Distributed Sensing in Congested Radio Frequency Environments. KRI and five partner institutions will conduct innovative research to enable technologies in distributed machine learning, signal processing algorithms, and computational, sensing, and communication hardware infrastructure for distributed sensing and communication.
Closas Receives Best Paper in Track Award at IEEE/ION PLANS 2023
ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas received the Best Paper in Track Award at the 2023 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) for the work “Jammer Classification with Federated Learning*”, with electrical engineering students Peng Wu and Helena Calatrava, and Associate Research Scientist Tales Imbiriba.
2022 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
A group of COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
Closas Receives AESS Harry Rowe Mimno Award
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas received the Harry Rowe Mimno Award from the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) for his paper “State Estimation Methods in Navigation: Overview and […]
COE Professors Selected in Stanford University List of Top 2% Scientists Worldwide
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The […]
Research Roundup: Advanced High-Precision GNSS
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas’s research was featured in the GPS World article “Research Roundup: Advanced High-Precision GNSS“.
Improving Flood Monitoring Methods
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas, Professor Deniz Erdogmus, CEE Professor Edward Beighley, and ECE Postdoc Tales Imbiriba were awarded a $98K grant from the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration for “Spaceborne Multispectral Image Fusion for Water Mapping and Flood Management”.
$1M DARPA Grant for Signal Processing in Neural Networks for Wireless IoT
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, Assistant Professor Pau Closas, Professor Deniz Erdogmus, Professor Tommaso Melodia, and Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang received $1M funding from DARPA for their project titled Signal Processing in Neural Networks (SPiNN) for Wireless IoT.
FY21 TIER 1 Award Recipients
Congratulations to the 19 COE faculty and affiliates who were recipients of FY21 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 13 different projects.
Professor Closas receives the TéSA Research Fellowship
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas was awarded the TéSA Research Fellowship to conduct collaborative research in one of the most active aerospace technology hubs in France.
Closas Receives NSF CAREER Award
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas received an NSF CAREER award for “Secure and ubiquitous position, navigation and timing.”
Securing Global Navigation Satellite System Infrastructures
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas was awarded a $160K NSF grant for “securing GNSS-based infrastructures.” Pau Closas, assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a $160K National Science Foundation […]
Closas Awarded 2018 PLANS Conference Best Paper Award
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas was awarded with the Best Paper in Track Award at the IEEE/ION Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS). Jordi Vilà-Valls, James T. Curran, Pau Closas, Carles Fernández-Prades and […]
Professor Closas Research on GNSS featured in Two Scientific Magazines
Assistant Professor Pau Closas was featured as the lead guest editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine “Advanced in Signal Processing for Global Navigation Satellite Systems” special issue. The magazine […]
Professor Closas Joins Navigation Systems Panel
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas will join the Navigation Systems Panel (NSP), a technical panel of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society (AESS).
Closas Named Early Achievement Award Winner by the Institute of Navigation
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas has been given an Early Achievement Award by the Institute of Navigation (ION), the world's premier non-profit professional society dedicated to the advancement of the art and science of positioning, navigation, and timing.
New Faculty Spotlight: Pau Closas
Pau Closas joins the Electrical & Computer Engineering department in January 2017 as an Assistant Professor.