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Committee Member Biographical Information

J. MICHAEL McQUADE, Chair, is a strategic advisor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he recently stepped down as the vice president for research. From 2006 to 2018, Dr. McQuade served as the senior vice president for science and technology at United Technologies Corporation, where he provided strategic oversight and guidance for research, engineering, and development activities that focused on a broad range of high-technology products and services for the global aerospace and building systems industries. Dr. McQuade has also held senior positions with technology development and business oversight at 3M, Imation, and Eastman Kodak. He served as the vice president of 3M’s Medical Division and the president of Eastman Kodak’s Health Imaging Business. Dr. McQuade has broad experience managing basic technology development and the conversion of early-stage research into business growth. He has served as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, and the Defense Innovation Board, and is a member on the National Academies’ National Science, Technology, and Security Roundtable and its Protecting Critical Technologies for National Security Consensus Study Report Committee. Dr. McQuade received a Ph.D. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University.

JENNIFER L. ALVAREZ is currently the chief executive officer and chair of the board for Aurora Insight, Inc. Alvarez co-founded Aurora Insight and started as the chief technical officer (CTO) in 2017. She led the development of the foundational technologies for sensing the radio frequency environment from land, air, and space, with a particular focus on emerging 5G technologies and the challenges associated with spectrum, including its general lack of availability and interference. Aurora Insight provided Ligado Networks,

Inc., with consulting services in 2018. Prior to co-founding Aurora Insight, Alvarez served in numerous roles at the Southwest Research Institute beginning in 1992. She performed extensive work on Global Positioning System (GPS) interference, including developing detection and mitigation techniques and systems for GPS jammers and spoofers. Alvarez led multi-disciplinary research efforts to develop innovative solutions in radio frequency signal acquisition and processing for cooperative, non-cooperative, and interfering signals. Her innovations included new radio frequency sensing technologies for cognitive radio applications and advanced methods for passively sensing and extracting information about signals and waveforms. Alvarez holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and an M.S. in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at San Antonio, where her thesis focused on developing a communication technique that exploited certain characteristics of GPS signals.

KRISTINE M. LARSON is a professor emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder and a research associate at Central Washington University. Dr. Larson’s research has focused on using GPS signals for geoscience research. In addition to using GPS to measure global and regional crustal deformation, she has developed new applications for GPS, including measuring seismic displacements, soil moisture, vegetation water content, precise time and frequency synchronization, snow depth, volcanic ash, tsunami waves, tides, and lake levels. Dr. Larson has served on several National Academies’ committees, including the Committee on National Requirements for Precise Geodetic Infrastructure. She received the 2015 Huygens Medal from the European Geosciences Union. In 2020, Dr. Larson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and received the Whitten Medal from the American Geophysical Union. She earned a B.A. in engineering sciences from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Earth sciences (geophysics) from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.

JOHN L. MANFERDELLI is currently the confidential computing incubation leader at VMware, where he leads security innovation projects in the office of the CTO. Before that, Dr. Manferdelli was a professor of the practice and the executive director of the Cyber Security and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University. Previous to that, he was the engineering director for production security development at Google. Before working at Google, Dr. Manferdelli was a senior principal engineer at Intel Corporation and the co-principal investigator (with David Wagner) for the Intel Science and Technology Center for Secure Computing at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to working at Intel, he was a distinguished engineer at Microsoft and an affiliate faculty member in computer science at the University of Washington (UW). Preceding his work at Microsoft and UW, Dr. Manferdelli founded a natural language company that was acquired by

Microsoft and worked at Bell Labs, Livermore Labs, and TRW. He was a member of the Information Science and Technology Study Group at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and is currently a member of the Defense Science Board and the National Academies’ Forum on Cyber Resilience. Dr. Manferdelli’s professional interests include cryptography and cryptographic mathematics, combinatorial mathematics, operating systems, computer security, and the Internet of Things. He is also a licensed radio amateur (AI6IT). Dr. Manferdelli holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.

PRESTON F. MARSHALL is an engineering director at Google, LLC. He is responsible for spectrum access technology, including a focus on the creation of a vibrant ecosystem of equipment, users, and standards in the newly shared 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band. Dr. Marshall is chair of the Wireless Innovation Forum Spectrum Sharing Subcommittee, developing the technology base for 3.5 GHz spectrum sharing, and chair of the board of directors of the CBRS (now OnGo) Alliance, developing co-existence and neutral host technology for the 3.5 GHz band. He has a new book on this subject, Three Tier Shared Spectrum, Shared Infrastructure, and a Path to 5G, recently released by Cambridge University Press, as well as two prior works on cognitive radio. Dr. Marshall has been heavily involved in wireless technology and policy, holding positions such as deputy director of the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC), director of the ISI Center for Computer Science and Technology, research professor at USC’s Department of Electrical Engineering, contributor to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology spectrum study that led to the creation of the CBRS band, and program manager at DARPA, directing multiple wireless and sensing technology programs. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Trinity College, Dublin, and an M.S. and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Lehigh University.

MARK L. PSIAKI is the Kevin T. Crofton Faculty Chair in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he has taught since 2016. Additionally, he is a professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, where he taught for 30 years. Dr. Psiaki spent two sabbatical leaves as a Lady Davis Visiting Associate Professor with the Aerospace Engineering Faculty at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and one sabbatical leave as a National Research Council senior research associate at the Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His contributions lie in the areas of estimation, filtering, data fusion, and signal detection with applications to GPS/global navigation satellite system navigation; alternative navigation

methods; spacecraft attitude and orbit determination; and remote sensing of the upper atmosphere. Dr. Psiaki has authored or co-authored more than 80 refereed journal articles, 75 additional conference papers and trade magazine articles, 1 book chapter, and 10 U.S. patents. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Navigation (ION) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Dr. Psiaki has received the ION’s Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and Burka awards, the Technion’s Meir Hanin International Memorial Prize, and six best paper awards for AIAA conferences. He earned a B.A. in physics (1979), an M.A. in mechanical and aerospace engineering (1984), and a Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering (1987), all from Princeton University.

RICHARD L. (RICK) REASER, JR., has been a self-employed, independent consultant since January 2020. Reaser provides independent consulting services to U.S.-CREST on GPS and general space technology and markets. In spring 2021, he provided independent consulting services to Cerberus Operations and Advisory Company in the performance of technical and market due diligence to assess the viability of an aviation innovation. Reaser provided independent consulting services to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through the Aerospace Corporation with a systems engineering program assessment of the Artemis program in spring 2020. From 2006 to 2019, he led Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems’ Spectrum Management and Electromagnetic Environmental Effects Department. Reaser was an Air Force officer from 1978 to 2006, when he retired as a Colonel. While in the Air Force, he served in the Air Force’s GPS Joint Program Office for 12 years across three duty tours as a satellite engineer, satellite contract manager, chief engineer, and deputy system program director. As the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) deputy director of spectrum management, Reaser was detailed by the Deputy Secretary of Defense to the White House and the U.S. Department of State as a technical advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC). In the late 1990s, he was selected as the U.S. spokesperson and leader of the interagency effort to prevent GPS spectrum encroachment. Reaser helped the United States and Europe obtain new international spectrum for GPS and Galileo at two WRCs (2000 and 2003). He negotiated the technical agreement between the European Union and the United States to share spectrum between the two systems in 2004. Reaser led the design efforts for three new GPS civil signals: L1C, L2C, and L5, as well the new military signal called M-Code. He was appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in January 2009 to the Commerce Spectrum Management Federal Advisory Committee as a Special Government Employee, where he served for a decade. In 2015, Reaser was selected by the National Academy of Sciences to serve on a congressionally directed committee that provided scientific, technical, and management recommendations regarding the U.S. Department of Commerce’s telecom labs.

JEFFREY H. REED is the Willis G. Worcester Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. Dr. Reed currently serves as the founding director of Wireless@Virginia Tech, one of the largest and most comprehensive university wireless research groups in the United States, which he founded in 2006. In 2010, Dr. Reed founded the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology and served as its interim director. From 2019 to 2020, he served as the interim director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, and he is the current CTO. His area of expertise is in software radios, smart antennas, wireless networks, and communications signal processing. Dr. Reed received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., all in electrical and computer engineering, from the University of California, Davis (respectively 1987, 1980, and 1979). He has participated in various National Academies’ activities, including a U.S. Government Accountability Office expert meeting on broadband deployment in 2016, and in reviews of engineering and research activities at the Institute for Telecommunications Sciences and the Communications Technology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Commerce in 2015. Additionally, Dr. Reed has served on the technical advisory boards for approximately six companies and as an informal advisor on national policy regarding wireless issues.

NAMBIRAJAN SESHADRI is currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego, a distinguished visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India, and serves as an advisor to a number of start-ups. Dr. Seshadri is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2012), and a recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (2018). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and his B.E. from the University of Madras (Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli, India) in 1982. Dr. Seshadri began his career at AT&T (Bell Labs from 1986 to 1995 and Shannon Labs from 1996 to 1999), where he conducted research in various aspects of mobile radio systems, culminating in the invention of space-time codes for which he and his co-authors won the best paper award from IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He joined Broadcom in 1999, and was the CTO of the Mobile and Wireless Division from 2000 to 2016, as well as general manager of the mobile group from 2011 to 2015.

J. SCOTT STADLER is the head of the Communication Systems mission at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory. He directs a portfolio of programs spanning architecture definition, technology development, system prototypes, and testbeds that are advancing the capabilities of the nation’s communication networks. The division focuses on military satellite communications, free-space laser communications,

ground- and air-based tactical radios, spectrum operations, and the development of quantum technologies for communications. Dr. Stadler has been involved in the design, development, and operation of a number of NASA and DoD satellite systems both at Lincoln Laboratory and in industry. This work included the early design and prototype of an architecture for supporting packetized network services via satellite. He has also led research efforts focused on the seamless integration of wireless and terrestrial packet data networks. Dr. Stadler has served in a variety of technical management positions at Lincoln Laboratory and also served as the chief engineer for the AF SMC/MCX through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act and as a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He holds a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. from University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, all in electrical engineering.

STEPHEN J. STAFFORD is the chief scientist of the GPS and GNSS Group at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL). Stafford is a member of JHUAPL’s principal professional staff, holding a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively. He has more than 15 years of experience in position, navigation, and timing sensor fusion as well as radionavigation, including the development of several GPS receivers for high-accuracy and weak signal applications. Stafford has written several publications related to the field of navigation warfare.