GENERAL SEMINAR: Professor Simona Lohan, Tampere University, Finland
Abstract:
The presentation of Professor Simona Lohan will cover the wireless positioning recent research topics at the Tampere Wireless Research Center at Tampere University (TAU), with particular focus on interference detection solutions in satellite navigation, open-Access data shared by TAU team, and potential collaborative paths via double PhD degrees and European and transnational calls for projects.
Biography:
Simona Lohan is a professor in wireless positioning field at the Tampere Wireless Research Center at Tampere University (TAU) and the leader of signal processing for wireless positioning (TLTPOS) research group at TAU. She is a co-editor of the first book on Galileo satellite system (Springer „Galileo Positioning technology”), co-editor of a book on „Multi-technology positioning”, and author or co-author in more than 300 international peer-reviewed publications. She is also a visiting scholar at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, and completed a Msc in electrical engineering at Politehnica University of Bucharest, followed by a DEA (French equivalent of Master) in Econometrics at École Polytechnique, France, and a PhD in wireless communications at Tampere University of Technology. Her research interests are related to GNSS, indoor and 5G/6G-based positioning, tracking, and navigation for intelligent and automated machines, RF fingerprinting and interference mitigation and management in wireless navigation receivers, SLAM and ISAC-related research, and LEO-based navigation solutions.