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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• D. Egea-Roca, F. Fabra, A. Xhafa, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "Time of Arrival and Time Difference of Arrival", chapter in Localization in Wireless Networks: Technologies and Applications, N. Saeed, M. A. Khan, editors, Wiley-IEEE Press, Aug. 2026.
• E. Shourezari, O. Kaltiokallio, J. Talvitie, M. C. Ilter, G. Seco-Granados, H. Wymeersch, M. Valkama, "Low-Complexity Efficient Estimators for Multi-band 6G Carrier Phase Positioning", Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference - Spring (VTC-S), June 2026.
• M. Abu Aqoulah, D. Gurgunoglu, G. Fodor, G. Seco-Granados, "Partial Relaxation for near-Field Channel Parameter Estimation: Algorithms and Cramér-Rao Bounds", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) - Workshop on Near-Field Communications, Localization, and Sensing, May 2026.
• E. Shourezari, M. Ilter, O. Kaltiokallio, J. Talvitie, G. Seco-Granados, H. Wymeersch, M. Valkama, "Multi-band Carrier Phase Positioning toward 6G: Performance Bounds and Design Insights", Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2026.
• J. A. del Peral-Rosado, S. Schlötzer, E. Ince, S. Al Faris, G. Ligorio, F. Soualle, A. Malik, C. Thienot, E. Eberlein, G. Yammine, K. Loidl, B. Ghimire, D. Egea-Roca, A. Xhafa, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, I. Lapin, F. Grec, F. Abel, "Technology Enablers Towards Unified PNT with GNSS, 5G and 6G Solutions", Proc. ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC), May 2026.
• M. Fernández-Temprado, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Acquisition and Processing of Globalstar CSS Bursts for Opportunistic Doppler-based Positioning", Proc. ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC), May 2026.
• B. Matos, P. Boto, V. Mendoça, G. Foreman-Campins, L. Pallarés-Rodríguez, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, A. Budianu, "Experimental Validation of Spatial Diversity Techniques for Interference Detection and Mitigation in Small Antenna Array GNSS Receivers", Proc. ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC), May 2026.
• I. Lapin, T. Panicciari, K.-N. Basch, S. Larese, R. Sarnadas, S. Cioni, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. García-Molina, "All You Can STARE: Real-Time Software Receiver for Estimating PNT Measurements from NR-NTN, IoT-NTN, Starlink, and Arbitrary Satcom Signals", Proc. ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC), May 2026.
• X. Alvarez-Molina, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Linear and Non-Linear Chirp Interference Mitigation Technique using the Fractional Fourier Transform in GNSS Snapshot Receivers", Proc. ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC), May 2026.
• J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, A. Xhafa, G. Seco-Granados, "Ch. 3.8, Sistemas de posicionamiento por satélite (GNSS)", chapter in Libro Blanco sobre Espacios Inteligentes y Tecnologías de Posicionamiento y Navegación en Entornos de Interior, J.J. Escudero, M.C. Rodríguez, A. Bahillo, A. Hernández (Editors), 108-115, May 2026.
• A. Xhafa, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "Ch 3.7.6, Redes Celulares", chapter in Libro Blanco sobre Espacios Inteligentes y Tecnologías de Posicionamiento y Navegación en Entornos de Interior, J.J. Escudero, M.C. Rodríguez, A. Bahillo, A. Hernández (Editors), 98-107, May 2026.
• R. Terris-Gallego, O. Sardà-Martí, E. Takiguchi-Medina, A. Galán-Figueras, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "SASlib: An Open Python Library for Galileo Signal Authentication Service", Proc. ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC), May 2026.
• Q. Liu, A. Reus-Bergas, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "An Enhanced Outer-Loop LEO Doppler Positioning Framework Incorporating Propagation Time", Proc. ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC), May 2026.
• A. Xhafa, D. Egea-Roca, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, S. Schlötzer, J. A. del Peral-Rosado, F. Abel, G. Seco-Granados, "Hybrid Random-Directional RIS Phase Profile Design for Multi-Layer TN/NTN Positioning", Proc. ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies (NAVITEC), May 2026.