Bio

Gonzalo Seco-Granados (IEEE Fellow) received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, in 2000, and the MBA degree from the IESE Business School, Spain, in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he was technical staff of the European Space Agency, The Netherlands, where he was involved in the design of the Galileo system and receivers. In 2015, 2019 and 2022, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, where he was Vice Dean of the Engineering School, from 2011 to 2019. He has contributed to the seminal works on “5G positioning”. In the area of GNSS, he made pioneering contributions to the use of antenna arrays, and he has developed techniques to increase the robustness against of interference, multipath and spoofing attacks, and to improve energy efficiency of GNSS receivers. He is co-founder of Loctio, a start-up providing low-energy positioning solutions for IoT. He received an ICREA Academia award in 2013 and 2019, and won an IEEE Signal Processing Society’ Best Paper Award in 2021. He serves as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (SAM TC), and of the EURASIP Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems Technical Committee, since 2018 and 2022, respectively. Since 2019, he is the President of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society.

Research interests

His current research interests are estimation, performance bounds, optimization and signal design aspects for satellite-based positioning (GNSS and LEO-PNT), 5G/6G positioning, and integrated sensing and communications systems (ISAC).

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Additional Information

Ph.D. Dissertation: "Antenna Arrays for Multipath and Interference Mitigation in GNSS Receiver", Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Advisor: Prof. Juan A. Fernández-Rubio. [Manuscript]    [Slides]

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• A. Xhafa, F. Fabra, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, I. Lapin, "Pathway to Coherent Phase Acquisition in Multi-channel USRP SDRs for Direction of Arrival Estimation", Proc. International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS), Oct 22 2023.
• H. Shahid, L. Canzian, C. Sarto, O. Pozzobon, J. Reyes-Gonzalez, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Spoofing Detection Performance of Snapshot OSNMA Under Time and Symbol Errors", Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall, Oct 10 2023.
• R. Terris-Gallego, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, I. Fernandez-Hernandez, "Preliminary Evaluation of Galileo ACAS Using Existing E1-E6 Open Signals and a Low-Cost SDR Platform", Proc. ION GNSS+, Sep 14 2023.
• I. Fernandez-Hernandez, J. Winkel, C. O, S. Cancela, R. Terris-Gallego, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, A. della Chiara, C. Sarto, D. Blonski, J. de Blas, "Semi-Assisted Signal Authentication for Galileo: Proof of Concept and Results", IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 4393-4404, Aug 01 2023.
• G. Marchand, A. Toumi, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Machine Learning Assessment of Anti-Spoofing Techniques for GNSS Receivers", Proc. ICL-GNSS, Jun 08 2023, [link].
• A. Xhafa, F. Fabra, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "Preliminary Results of 5G Direction of Arrival Estimation using In-Situ Calibration with USRP", Proc. ICL-GNSS, Jun 08 2023, [link].
• G. Foreman-Campins, L. Pallares-Rodriguez, S. Locubiche, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Methodologic Assessment of Beamforming Techniques for Interference Mitigation on GNSS Handheld Devices", Proc. ICL-GNSS, Jun 06 2023, [link].
• H. Shahid, L. Canzian, C. Sarto, O. Pozzobon, J. Reyes-Gonzalez, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Statistical Characterization of Snapshot OSNMA Spoofing Detection", Proc. ICL-GNSS, Jun 06 2023, [link].
• L. Pallares-Rodriguez, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Dual-Polarization Beamforming Techniques for Multipath Mitigation in GNSS Handheld Receivers", Proc. ICL-GNSS, Jun 06 2023, [link].
• F. Fabra, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "Analysis on baseband algorithms for LEO PNT", Proc. European Navigation Conference (ENC), Jun 02 2023.
• R. Terris-Gallego, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, I. Fernandez-Hernandez, " E1-E6 SDR platform based on bladeRF for testing Galileo Assisted Commercial Authentication Service", Proc. European Navigation Conference (ENC), Jun 01 2023.
• H. Shahid, S. Locubiche, L. Canzian, C. Sarto, O. Pozzobon, I. Fernandez-Hernandez, J. Reyes-Gonzalez, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Feasibility of Snapshot OSNMA for Spoofing Detection in Urban Scenarios", Proc. European Navigation Conference (ENC), Jun 01 2023, [link].
• E. Obiols, L. Tortajada-Ropero, A. Creus, A. Gonzalez-Novell, F. Fabra, G. Seco-Granados, "GNSS Interference Monitoring and Detection (GIMAD) System", Proc. European Navigation Conference (ENC), May 31 2023.
• L. Pallares-Rodriguez, S. Locubiche, G. Foreman-Campins, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Beamforming Techniques for Resilient Navigation with Small Antenna Arrays", Proc. European Navigation Conference (ENC), May 31 2023.