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Global Positioning System (GPS) and related topics
National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
Advisory Board
Renato Filjar
Renato Filjar is a Titular Professor of Electronics Engineering (Tenure) with the Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia, and a Professor, Head of Laboratory for Spatial Intelligence, and Vice-Dean for science and international cooperation at the University of Applied Sciences Hrvatsko Zagorje Krapina, Croatia. He established and organized the traditional Baška GNSS conference, and Baška SIF (Spatial Information Fusion) Forum, held annually in Baška, Krk Island, Croatia.
His professional interests include: Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) resilience development against adverse space weather, geomagnetic, ionospheric, multipath, and spoofing effects; statistical, mathematical and computer science framework for the environment-aware GNSS position estimation; statistics, statistical learning and predictive modeling; spatial and sensor information fusion; application-scaled GNSS positioning performance; GNSS Software-Defined Radio, and nature-inspired navigation methods.
Professor Filjar is involved in international science, research, development, commercialization, and education activities and initiatives related to satellite navigation, through his expert cooperation with the United Nations International Committee on GNSS, International Space Weather Initiative, the European Union Agency for Space Programmes, European Telecommunications Standardisation Institute, and universities across the world.
Professor Filjar is a Fellow of The Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN), London, United Kingdom (UK), a Member of the Institute of Navigation (ION), and a Member of the International Society of Information Fusion. Professor Filjar was presented with the RIN J. E. D. Williams (Silver) Medal in 2010 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the International TransNav Conference (Maritime University of Gdynia, Gdynia, Poland) in 2021. He holds BSc (1987), MSc (1994) and Ph.D. (2007) degrees in electrical engineering, respectively, from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
