I'm an RF & Digital Payload Engineer working on space communication and navigation, from search-and-rescue beacons to software-defined radios.
Currently: Doctoral Researcher at IDLab (Ghent University - imec), building an FPGA-based SDR on the open-source OpenWiFi platform. This involves real-time DSP on FPGAs, PHY architecture, and hardware/software co-design.
Previously: Five years at NASA Goddard and The Aerospace Corporation. Led development of the lunar search-and-rescue (SAR) navigation beacon architecture, designed and laid out space-rated PCBs and bare-metal ARM flight software, and halved SAR beacon positioning error by applying Unscented Kalman Filters to rescue beacon localization.
- RF & PCB hardware design
- FPGA / DSP implementation
- Navigation, link budgets, and system modeling
- Space comm/nav payloads for lunar and deep-space missions