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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Congratulations to Satinath Debnath

Satinath Debnath successfully defended his MSc thesis, “Ultra-Wideband Trained Artificial Neural Networks for Bluetooth Proximity Detection in Small Crowded Areas” , this afternoon. Satinath joined us in September 2021, initially only virtually and then in person later in the term. He was previously an engineer at Accord Systems in India. He has been hired by CMC Electronics in Montreal and will start there after he completes his minor revisions.

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Congratulations to Rene Manzano

Rene Manzano successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Sequential Importance Resampling Particle Filter for Ambiguity Resolution” , this morning. He will be celebrating tonight with several members of his family who are visiting for the occasion, before starting on his revisions. Rene has been hired by Hexagon Autonomy and Positioning, aka, NovAtel for a position in their corrections services group.

Friday, February 24, 2023

Smartphones may be our greatest tool for outdoor and indoor navigation

Kyle O'Keefe from University of Calgary and Richard Langley from University of New Brunswick were featured in an episode of CBC Radio Spark. 

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Congratulations to Roberto Capua

Roberto Capua successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Roberto completed his PhD part time, beginning in 2017, under the co-supervision of Gérard Lachapelle and Kyle O'Keefe. His thesis, "Peer PPP-RTK: Toward and Affordable Real-time High Accuracy Service" will be available early next year.

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Congratulations to Luis Rodriguez Mendoza

Luis Rodriguez Mendoza successfully defended his MSc thesis this afternoon. Luis’ thesis “Wearable Multi-sensor Positioning Device for Rowing Technique Analysis” will be posted to the group website soon. Luis will present his results at the North American Congress on Biomechanics later this month in Ottawa and has just started full time position with Hexagon in Calgary.

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Congratulations to Kelly Harke

Kelly Harke who successfully defended her MSc thesis this morning. Kelly’s thesis “Kayak-specific Motion Constraints for an Improved Android Smartphone GPS/INS Navigation Solution” will be posted on the group website soon. She will also be presenting this work at ION GNSS+ virtually in Session D1 in September.

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Luis Rodriguez featured in MagPi Magazine

MSc. student Luis Rodriguez' class project to classify beverages by smell was featured in MagPi Magazine. https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/electronic-nose

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Congratulations to Paul Gratton

Paul Gratton successfully defended his MSc. thesis “Evaluation of Kinematic GNSS PPP for Tropospheric Zenith Wet Delay Estimation in Mountainous Regions” this afternoon on Zoom. Paul impressed the committee and achieved the very rare “no revisions” decision so now he will have to work quickly to submit his final version by the end of next week.

Friday, August 20, 2021

Congratulations to Ehab Ghanem

Ehab Ghanem successfully defended his PhD thesis “Relative Position and Attitude Determination using Multiple UWB Ranges” today at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna. Ehab was partially sponsored by the NSERC Multi-Sensor-Systems CREATE project and visited Calgary for two major data collection campaigns, most recently in the Summer of 2019. Ehab’s thesis will be posted to the new PLAN group webpage and the UBC repository as soon as he completes his revisions.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Andreas Brown Student Wins Swiss Graduate Scholarship

Andreas Brown has won the highly competitive Excellence Scholarship and Opportunity Programme (ESOP) award, offered by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zürich). Andreas joined the Geomatics program in 2018. In 2019 he was an NSERC undergraduate research assistant in the PLAN group, where he investigated ultra-wideband technology for athletic applications in water. Andreas will complete his Bachelor of Science in Geomatics Engineering in April 2021 and plans to move to Switzerland later this summer.

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Congratulations to Dongyu Zhang

Dongyu Zhang successfully defended her MSc. thesis “Ultra-Wideband Ranging for In-Vehicle Smartphone Positioning” on Zoom this afternoon. She will be returning to China next week and will complete her corrections while quarantining. Her thesis should be posted on the new group website in May. I hope we can take her out for lunch on a future visit to Calgary.

Friday, January 29, 2021

Congratulations to Maliha Monsur

Maliha Monsur successfully defended her MASc thesis “GPS/WiFi Integration for challenging environments using raw GNSS data” at UBC Okanagan this afternoon. Maliha was co-supervised by Kyle O’Keefe and Richard Klukas and spent one term of her master’s program in Calgary in 2018. She has recently moved from Kelowna to Vancouver and we wish her luck in her future endeavors.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Congratulations to Cheng Huang

Cheng Huang successfully defended his MSc thesis “Wheel Odometry Aided Visual-Inertial Odometry in Winter Urban Environments.” He has some minor corrections do by the end of the month and then his thesis will be the first to be posted on the new PLAN group website. Cheng joined the group in September 2018 and his work was partially supported by Dr. Gérard Lachapelle’s iCORE Chair in Wireless Location. Cheng has already started an internship with Leica in Calgary.

Sunday, November 15, 2020

PLAN Group Webpage Move and Archiving

Welcome to our new web site. An archived version of our previous side is available here

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Congratulations to Sharareh Asal Nagdhi

Asal Nagdhi successfully defended her PhD this morning on a Zoom meeting. She has some minor revisions to complete in the next three weeks and hopefully, eventually, we can take her and the group for lunch at the Grad Lounge to celebrate. She joined the PLAN group in July 2016 and we have enjoyed working with her for the last 4 years. Her thesis: Improving Bluetooth-based Indoor Positioning Using Vision and Artificial Networks, will be posted on the group website in mid-July.

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