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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• E. Dominguez, F. J. Mata, F. A. Pinto, M. Meneses, D. Garcia, J. Fidalgo, D. Giustiniano, G. Sanromita, T. Otim, F. Pigato, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, T. Reus, M. Fernandez, D. Egea-Roca, F. Fabra, A. Xhafa, "Unified Navigation and Communication Hybrid Terminal", Proc. ION GNSS+, Sep 12 2025.
• L. Pallarés-Rodríguez, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, B. de Matos, P. Boto, A. Budianu, "Validation of Beamforming Techniques for Handheld GNSS Receivers in the Presence of Correlated Signals", Proc. ION GNSS+, Sep 10 2025.
• R. Terris-Gallego, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, I. Fernandez-Hernandez, "Testing Galileo SAS with Encrypted Signal-in-Space", Proc. ION GNSS+, Sep 10 2025.
• R. Terris-Gallego, F. Fabra, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "Designing Parametric Multiple-Choice Tests with Moodle and LaTeX for Engineering Education", Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, Jun 18 2025.
• X. Alvarez-Molina, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Chirp Interference Mitigation in Snapshot GNSS Receivers Using the Time-Frequency Ridge-Assisted Fractional Fourier Transform ", Proc. International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS), Jun 10 2025.
• L. Pallarés-Rodríguez, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Validation of Beamforming Techniques for Interference Mitigation in GNSS Handheld Receivers with Skydel Simulator ", Proc. International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS), Jun 10 2025.
• D. Egea-Roca, A. Xhafa, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "Performance Assessment of Multi-RIS-Aided Localization in Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks", Proc. European Navigation Conference (ENC), May 21 2025.
• M. Fernandez i Temprado, A. Reus, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Experimental Testbed and Measurement Campaign for Multi-Constellation LEO Positioning", Proc. European Navigation Conference (ENC), May 21 2025.
• I. Fernandez-Hernandez, J. Winkel, C. O'Driscoll, T. Willems, S. Cancela, A. Ramirez, R. Terris-Gallego, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, G. Caparra, D. Blonski, B. Motella, A. Galan, J. Simon, "Current Status and Plans of Galileo Signal Authentication Service", European Navigation Conference (ENC), May 21 2025.
• D. Egea-Roca, Y. Sanchez-Costa, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "Interference cancellation algorithm for LEO-PNT with LoRaWAN", Proc. European Navigation Conference (ENC), May 21 2025.
• X. Liu, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, T. Y. Al-Naffouri, "Pseudorandom Code-Aided Acquisition and Tracking of Globalstar Satellite Signals for Opportunistic Navigation", Proc. IEEE/ION PLANS, Apr 30 2025.
• S. Saleh, Pinjun Zheng, Xing Liu, Hui Chen, M. F. Keskin, B. Priyanto, M. Beale, Y. Ettefagh, G. Seco-Granados, T. Y. Al-Naffouri, H. Wymeersch, "Integrated 6G TN and NTN Localization: Challenges, Opportunities, and Advancements", IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, , Apr 01 2025.
• A. Xhafa, F. Fabra, D. Egea-Roca, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "Experimental Investigation of AoA Estimation and Antenna Calibration with 5G NR signals using USRP Devices", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, (accepted for publication), Apr 01 2025.
• A. Galan-Figueras, C. Iñiguez, I. Fernandez-Hernandez, S. Pollin, G. Seco-Granados, "Improving OSNMAlib: New Formats, Features and Monitoring Capabilities", IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation, (accepted for publication), Apr 01 2025.