The GRCon24 Organizer team is composed entirely of volunteers who spend countless hours taking care of the details to make the conference happen smoothly. Without them, GRCon would not happen at all!
Samantha Palazzolo
Samantha is a wireless networking engineer and long time GNU Radio user. She is a member of the GNU Radio General Assembly and has been helping to organize GRCon for the past few years (and attending them for even longer).
Derek Kozel
Derek is past president of GNU Radio and a Principal Investigator at the SETI Institute, acting as liason between the organizations. He's also persuing a PhD in high efficiency RF amplifier design at Cardiff University. He has been using and contributing to GNU Radio since 2013.
Josh Morman
Josh is the current president and previous co-maintainer of GNU Radio, and a Senior Research Scientist with Peraton Labs. He has been heavily involved the last several years with the GR 4.0 rearchitecture and development.
Barry Duggan
Barry is a retired computer programmer, amateur radio operator (KV4FV), and devotes most of his time to the GNU Radio project. As they did for GRCon22, he and Marc Lichtman are leading the audio-visual production team for live streaming as well as in-room displays and sound.
Marc Lichtman
Marc is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft in the Azure Spectrum Technologies group, and teaches part time as an Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland in CS. Marc, along with Derek and Martin, form the Board of GNU Radio.
Andrej Rode
Andrej is a member of the GNU Radio General Assembly and Infrastructure maintainer for the GNU Radio project. For GRCon the IT services for registration, ticketing, and publishing are set up and run with his help. He is pursuing a Dr.-Ing. at the Communications Engineering Lab of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research focuses on applying machine learning to the optimization of communication systems, particularly the physical layer.
Marcus Müller
Marcus has stuck around the project for a while now, has been maintainer, soul of the mailing list and supplier of LaTeX explanations in various emails. Being raised in a thoroughly GNU Radio-friendly lab, he's a freelancing SDR developer, software consultant, and all-around nerd-of-all-trades.
Toby Flynn
Toby is the CTO at Red Wire Technologies where he uses GNU Radio regularly, especially in an embedded environment. He has been using and contributing to GNU Radio since 2008.
Neel Pandeya
Neel is a Principal SDR Engineer and Group Manager at National Instruments (NI) in Austin, Texas, USA, and is an alumnus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and Northeastern University (NEU). He has been involved with the GNU Radio software and the GNU Radio Conference since 2014.
Seth Hitefield
Seth is a Research Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is a member of the GNU Radio General Assembly. He has been using and contributing to GNU Radio for many years.
Special Thanks
The SETI Institute is our co-organizer for GRCon. They've managed all of the finances for GRCon since 2020 in addition to providing support for contracts, communication, swag, and future planning.
