Name: GNU Radio Conference 2026
Start: 2026-09-21T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-09-25T13:30:00-04:00
Location: Talley Student Union

Monday, 21 September 2026

08:30 Reg Desk Opens
Reg Desk Opens
08:30 - 08:31
09:00 Workshop: Workshop Room 1 (3222)
Workshop Room 1 (3222)
09:00 - 17:00
Room: 3222
Contributions

09:00 Intro to GNU Radio Workshop - Derek Kozel (GNU Radio)

13:00 Quick Start on Control Loops with Python - Dan Boschen
Workshop: Workshop Room 2 (3285)
Workshop Room 2 (3285)
09:00 - 17:00
Room: 3285
Contributions

09:00 AI-RAN with OCUDU and GNU Radio - Raj Bhattacharjea (DeepSig, Inc.)

13:00 Hands-On with GRC-Agent: LLMs in GNU Radio Development - Muq Hussain (Qoherent)

14:00 GNU Radio 4 Workshop (User Focused) - Josh Morman

15:30 GNU Radio 4 Workshop - Advanced/Developer focused - Josh Morman
10:45 AM Break
AM Break
10:45 - 11:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
14:00 Breakout Session: Breakout Session
Breakout Session
14:00 - 16:30
Room: 3210
Contributions

14:00 Claude Plays SDR - Marc Lichtman
15:00 PM Break
PM Break
15:00 - 15:30

16:30 Breakout Session: Women+@GRCon
Women+@GRCon
16:30 - 17:00
Room: 3221

17:20 Social: Monday Meet and Greet
Monday Meet and Greet
17:20 - 19:20
Room: 1887
Tuesday, 22 September 2026
09:00 Keynote
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

09:00 Dr. Veena Mishra - Opening Remarks - Veena Misra

09:15 Keynote: Daniel Stancil - Earth-Moon-Earth Communications
10:00 Project Talk

10:00 - 10:45
Room: Mountain Ballroom

10:45 AM Break
AM Break
10:45 - 11:00

11:00 Capture the Flag (CTF)

11:00 - 17:30
Room: 3210

Expo Hall

11:00 - 17:00
Room: Coastal Ballroom
Main Track
11:00 - 11:45
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

11:00 Automatic Python Bindings for GNU Radio 4 Blocks via nanobind - Anthony Gravier Carlos DelValle Rivera (KBR)

11:15 GNU Radio Studio - Use Cases and Future Plans - Håkon Vågsether Josh Morman
Workshop: Workshop Room 1 (3222)
Workshop Room 1 (3222)
11:00 - 17:30
Room: 3222
Contributions

11:00 TorchSig: v2.x, Models, Geolocation, GUI - Erebus Oh

13:00 Walk-Through of AI-Assisted Development of GNU Radio-Based SDR Applications - Carl Dietrich (Virginia Tech and Software Defined Radio Solutions, LLC)

15:30 Beyond the Antenna: Non-SDR Applications of GNURadio - Neil Rogers (Analog Devices)
Workshop: Workshop Room 2 (3285)
Workshop Room 2 (3285)
11:00 - 17:30
Room: 3285
Contributions

13:00 FPGA Processing on USRP Radios Using the RFNoC Framework - Neel Pandeya (National Instruments) Jonathon Pendlum (National Instruments)

15:30 Build a Real Over-the-Air OFDM Radio with GNU Radio and SDR - Fredrick Odero (Tau Wireless Academy)
11:45 Lightning Talk Block

11:45 - 12:00
Room: Mountain Ballroom

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Main Track
13:00 - 15:00
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

13:00 RadioStream: A Wideband Multi-Antenna SDR Platform - Jeeva Keshav Sattianarayanin (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)

13:15 USRP 2026: New Connections - Martin Braun (GNU Radio)

13:45 gr-pocketsdr: Bringing PocketSDR Front-Ends to GNU Radio and GNSS-SDR Ecosystem - Minhaj Uddin Ahmad (University of Alabama)

14:00 Distributed Fourier-Domain Imaging With Fully Digital Wireless Coordination Using Software Defined Radios - Sherwin Shiran (Michigan State University)

14:30 Method for Automatic Calibration of I/Q Amplitude Balance and Quadrature Skew Using GNU Radio - Brendan Hill (Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific)

14:45 Contactless cardiac-related micro-motion sensing and feature extraction using SDR-based continuous-wave radar - Otgonbaatar Gombo (National University of Mongolia)
15:00 PM Break
PM Break
15:00 - 15:30

15:30 Lightning Talk Block

15:30 - 15:45
Room: Mountain Ballroom
15:45 Main Track
15:45 - 17:30
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

15:45 New Methods for FM Threshold Extension in GNU Radio - Christopher Hansen (Covariant Corporation)

16:15 Comparative Assessment of Calibrated SDRs for Spectrum Sensing - Parker Trzebunia (North Carolina State University)

16:30 Universal High-Bandwidth SDR Transceiver for RFSoC4x2 and GNU Radio - Marius Siauciulis (University of Strathclyde)

17:00 Closing the GNU Radio to FPGA Loop: Towards a DVB-S2 Transmitter - Seth Pellegrino

17:15 Open-Source RF Environment Generator for Procedurally-Generated Over-the-Air Datasets Using GNU Radio - Kathleen DeKey Samuel Brosh (Georgia Tech Research Institute)
Wednesday, 23 September 2026
09:00 Keynote
09:00 - 09:45
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

09:00 Adam Thompson - Wednesday Keynote
09:45 Main Track
09:45 - 10:45
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

09:45 Use of GNU Radio Simulations and Hardware Exercises to Teach and Apply SDR and Spectrum Sharing Concepts - Carl Dietrich (Virginia Tech and Software Defined Radio Solutions, LLC)

10:00 Sensors Deployed in Hostile Environments connected using Acoustic Communications and GNU Radio - Michael Alldritt

10:30 Real-Time LiDAR Data Transmission to the Edge over mmWave - Kevin Hermstein (Columbia University)
10:45 AM Break
AM Break
10:45 - 11:00
11:00 Breakout Session
11:00 - 12:00
Room: 3222
Contributions

11:00 GNU Radio World and Synergy with GR4 - Marc Lichtman Håkon Vågsether
Capture the Flag (CTF)

11:00 - 17:00
Room: 3210

Expo Hall: Expo Hall
Expo Hall
11:00 - 17:00
Room: Coastal Ballroom
Main Track
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

11:00 On-Device GNU Radio for an SoC-Based Underwater Acoustic Modem - Gabriel Garcia (Florida Atlantic University)

11:15 Your Flowgraph Is the Chip: GNU Radio Compiled Straight to Silicon - Charles McClish

11:45 ADI Sponsor Talk
Workshop: Workshop Room 1 (3222)
Workshop Room 1 (3222)
11:00 - 17:00
Room: 3222
Contributions

13:00 Implementation and Testing of Multi-Antenna Techniques using GNU Radio and Low-Cost SDR Hardware - Carl Dietrich (Virginia Tech and Software Defined Radio Solutions, LLC)
Workshop: Workshop Room 2 (3285)
Workshop Room 2 (3285)
11:00 - 17:00
Room: 3285
Contributions

13:00 You can do everything with MultiUSRP, and for everything else there is RFNoC - Marian Koop (NI) Neel Pandeya (National Instruments)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Main Track
13:00 - 13:15
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

13:00 Real-Time Multi-Signal Modulation Classification at the Cognitive Edge Using Multi-Modal Deep Fusion in GNU Radio - Sultan Mohammad Manjur (North Carolina State University)
13:15 Lightning Talk Block

13:15 - 13:20
Room: Mountain Ballroom
13:20 Main Track
13:20 - 13:50
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

13:20 FISSURE: Tactical RF Operations and Situational Awareness with GNU Radio - Christopher Poore (AIS) Dan Love (AIS)
13:50 Lightning Talk Block

13:50 - 13:55
Room: Mountain Ballroom
13:55 Main Track
13:55 - 14:10
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

13:55 gr-autopilot: An Agentic Framework for Closed-Loop Flowgraph Synthesis with Hardware-in-the-Loop Feedback - Gabriel Garcia (Florida Atlantic University)
14:10 Lightning Talk Block

14:10 - 14:15
Room: Mountain Ballroom
14:15 Main Track
14:15 - 15:00
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

14:15 Deploying GNU Radio in Agentic AI Systems - Dan Bryant

14:45 Detecting Falsified UAV Telemetry: An SDR Approach to Remote ID Spoofing Detection - Joel Isaacson (Vanderbilt University)
15:00 PM Break
PM Break
15:00 - 15:15
15:15 Main Track
15:15 - 17:00
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

15:15 An Upgraded gr-cuda: Writing GNU Radio Blocks with CuPy - Wael Farah (Cascade Space Corporation)

15:30 softcast-rs, an open source implementation of the joint source channel video coding mechanism - Jordan Schneider

15:45 RF in Slow Motion: Using Acoustics for SDR Education - Dan Boschen

16:15 gr-rt_channel_emulator: Ray-Tracing-Driven Channel Emulation in GNU Radio for Reproducible PHY-Layer Datasets - Jose Sanchez Viloria (Florida Atlantic University)

16:30 Beam Mapping Radio Telescopes with GNSS-SDR for 21 cm Cosmology - Shronim Tiwari (McGill University)
18:00 Social: GRCon26 Social: Raleigh Beer Garden
GRCon26 Social: Raleigh Beer Garden
18:00 - 21:00
Thursday, 24 September 2026
09:00 Keynote
09:00 - 09:45
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

09:00 Ad Astra: Adaptive Wireless Communications for the Next Frontier - Thursday Keynote - Alexander Wyglinski
09:45 Main Track
09:45 - 10:45
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

09:45 How to share clocks for phase coherency that suits your needs - Jan Schirok (Emerson)

10:15 Holoscan and USRP: A GPU and SDR case study - Martin Braun (GNU Radio)
10:45 AM Break
AM Break
10:45 - 11:00

11:00 Capture the Flag (CTF)

11:00 - 15:05
Room: 3210

Expo Hall: Expo Hall
Expo Hall
11:00 - 15:30
Room: Coastal Ballroom
Main Track
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

11:00 Northwood Sponsor Talk

11:15 Real-Time Scheduling Support in GNU Radio 4 - Bryan Ward (Vanderbilt University)

11:45 A Comprehensive Analysis of Large‑Scale SDR Synchronisation with the OctoClock‑G - Dennis Joosens (UAntwerp - IDLab - imec)
Workshop: Workshop Room 1 (3222)
Workshop Room 1 (3222)
11:00 - 17:00
Room: 3222
Contributions

12:45 Hands-on Tutorial for Programming the SDRs and UAVs at NSF AERPAW Platform - Christopher Roberts Ozgur Ozdemir
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 12:45
12:45 Main Track
12:45 - 14:30
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

12:45 Payload-Aided 5G NTN Integrated Sensing and Communication - Soham Desai

13:00 Toward Massive-MIMO mmWave ISAC: An Open Framework for Scalable RF Sensing and Communications - Shammi Doly (Tiami Networks Inc.)

13:15 Scalable Phased Arrays with QuadRF

13:45 A GNU Radio SDR Framework for 5G-Based Indoor Motion Detection Using SSB and Zadoff-Chu Signals - Krishna Kanth Rokkam (North Carolina State University)

14:00 Toward FPGA-Accelerated Wireless Coordination for SDR-Based Network Applications - Matthew Dula (Michigan State University)
13:00 Amateur Radio License Exam

13:00 - 15:00

14:30 Lightning Talk Block

14:30 - 14:45
Room: Mountain Ballroom

15:00 PM Break
PM Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Main Track: Track Overflow
Track Overflow
15:30 - 16:45
Room: Mountain Ballroom
Contributions

15:30 Track Overflow
16:45 Project Talk: Conference Closing
Conference Closing
16:45 - 16:55
Room: Mountain Ballroom

17:00 Capture the Flag (CTF): CTF Review
CTF Review
17:00 - 19:00
Room: 3210
Friday, 25 September 2026

08:00 Demo: AERPAW Demo
AERPAW Demo
08:00 - 11:00
11:30 Breakout Session: Lab Tour
Lab Tour
11:30 - 13:30
Contributions

11:30 AERPAW Lab Tour - Magreth Mushi (NCSU)