Keynotes
Eric
Blossom founded the GNU Radio project in 2001 and ran it as a full-time undertaking through 2010. Eric was responsible for the original architecture and implementation of GNU Radio, including the fundamental concepts of blocks, streaming data, the buffering system, and the first two generations of schedulers. If there's something aboutt GNU Radio that bugs you, there is a good chance that Eric is to blame.
He is deeply grateful for all of the people who have used and supported GNU Radio over the years and particularly to those who have worked to evolve it into a more powerful and useful tool. Eric has spent the last 6 years at Planet Labs, one of the leading "new space" companies, building a family of high speed radios used to downlink imagery of earth from Planet's constellation of satellites. These satellites are in a 500km orbit, and the radios downlink imagery at > 1.5Gb/s, totalling terabytes of data per day across the constellation.
Johan Messchendrop: Captivated by the fundamental forces and (nearly) massless elementary particles that form massive matter at the sub-atomic level, I dedicated my career to nuclear, hadron and particle physics. Particularly, the experimental challenges inspired me to develop a deep expertise in the technology behind collecting and processing “big data” that leads to groundbreaking insights in these fields. From my PhD studies (1995-1999) at the KVI nuclear physics laboratory in the Netherlands to my current role (since 2021) as a group leader at GSI/FAIR, where we are building one of the world's largest heavy-ion accelerator facilities, I have been driven by technology-focused projects involving international collaborations with researchers from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and expertise.
As a former associate professor at the University of Groningen (2003-2021), I have educated and trained multiple generations of students and junior researchers, many of whom have gone on to successful academic careers or key roles in high-tech industries. With my extensive background in subatomic physics, information technology, and data processing and analysis, I am presently committed to leading the development of cutting-edge physics programs and to the design of a common computing infrastructure for FAIR experiments, paving the way for the next generation of researchers to explore and further innovate.
Josh Morman has been deeply involved with the GNU Radio Project for the past decade, serving in various capacities as a user, contributor, maintainer, organizer, and currently as the president. With over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Josh has primarily focused on developing wireless communication applications for Software-Defined Radio (SDR).
As we embark on advancing the state of GNU Radio through a modernized and more performant core, his keynote talk will focus on the state of the community, ecosystem, and organization and the steps needed to make a shift to GR 4.0 a reality.
