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David Woerner
Project Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Deputy Principal Investigator/Mission Integration Lead, University of Dayton Research Institute. Lunar project and infrastructure development for NASA’s Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRISM). JPL/Caltech Retired 12/2025. Forty-two years of service. Numerous NASA awards, including Exceptional Service and Exceptional Achievement Medals. Editor and co-author of the book, The Technology of Discovery: Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators and Thermoelectric Technologies for Space Exploration. David served as the Systems Formulation Manager for the Radioisotope Power System Program at NASA, the MMRTG Office manager for the MSL mission, and the Chief Engineer of the avionics for Mars Pathfinder. He was a Systems Engineer on the Galileo, Cassini, and Magellan missions. He is currently the Chair, Board of Directors of IEEE Aerospace Conferences.
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Kendra Cook
, : Kendra Cook is a Space System Security Subject Matter Expert at SAIC, where she supports NASA in advancing the future space system security. She brings over two decades of experience in aerospace engineering, cybersecurity, and mission operations. Prior to her current role, she spent nine years at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), serving in multiple engineering positions, most recently as a System Security Engineer with the Mission Protection Office and as the Lead Systems Engineer on the Europa Clipper mission operations team. Her career also includes 15 years supporting various satellite development and emerging technology programs across government and industry, and seven years of distinguished service as an Officer in the United States Air Force. Kendra holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University and dual M.S. degrees in Astronautical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified U.S. Export Compliance Officer (CUSECO) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), reflecting her multidisciplinary expertise at the intersection of engineering, cybersecurity, and policy.
Technologies, techniques, demonstrations and applications of Antennas, RF and Microwave systems, components, and instruments, and Radio Science
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Glenn Hopkins
Principal Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute: GTRI Fellow and Chief Engineer of the Antenna Systems Division of the GTRI Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, specializing in array antenna technologies. Interests include phased arrays, wide bandwidth antennas, digital beam forming and RF subsystems.
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James Hoffman
Vice President of Engineering, Erciyes University: Quite possibly the only person on LinkedIn who isn’t a “results-orientated team player with excellent interpersonal skills.”
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3.01 Phased Array Antenna Systems and Beamforming Technologies
Included are active power combining, thermal management, phasing networks, integration, power, test and evaluation and beamsteering, algorithm development and associated hardware implementations, and modeling and simulation for all levels of phased array development and beamsteering.
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Glenn Hopkins
Principal Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute: GTRI Fellow and Chief Engineer of the Antenna Systems Division of the GTRI Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, specializing in array antenna technologies. Interests include phased arrays, wide bandwidth antennas, digital beam forming and RF subsystems.
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3.02 Ground and Space Antenna Technologies and Systems
Topics on all aspects of antenna systems associated with ground-based and space-based sensors, communications, and antenna technologies. Systems include ground based terminals, ground-to-space and space-to-space data links, and radar sensors. Antenna technologies include reflectors, lenses, feeds, arrays, and the transmit/receive subsystems associated with the antenna(s).
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James Hoffman
Vice President of Engineering, Erciyes University: Quite possibly the only person on LinkedIn who isn’t a “results-orientated team player with excellent interpersonal skills.”
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Thomas Williamson
Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute: Thomas G. Williamson (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree (hons.) and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2025. He is currently a Research Engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute, in the Antenna Systems Division of the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory, where he works on bespoke antenna designs, modern active electronically scanned arrays, radars, and digital beamforming systems. His research interests also include RF and mmWave circuits and phase change materials. He has had internships at LANL, SNL, and Qorvo in 2016, 2017, and 2018 respectively. He is a reviewer for Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters and a member of the Phased Array Symposium Technical Program Committee. He won the Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship in 2019. He received the GTRI Star Performer Award in 2021. He received the GTRI IRAD of the Year award in 2025.
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3.03 RF/Microwave Systems
Papers about RF and microwave systems or components, passive and active, including radar systems.
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James Hoffman
Vice President of Engineering, Erciyes University: Quite possibly the only person on LinkedIn who isn’t a “results-orientated team player with excellent interpersonal skills.”
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Christopher Edmonds
Senior Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute: Dr. Christopher Edmonds is a Senior Research Engineer in the Sensors and Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). He is involved in RF design. His prior experience includes RF and optoelectronic circuit design. Dr. Edmonds earned a Bachelor's (1996) and Master’s (1999) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as a Ph.D. in Bioengineering (2013), all from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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3.04 Radio Astronomy and Radio Science
Papers on the techniques, hardware, systems, and results in the fields of Radio Astronomy and Radio Science.
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Mark Bentum
Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology: Mark Bentum received his MSc and PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, in 1991 and 1995. In 1996 he joined the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (ASTRON). He was in various positions at ASTRON. In 2005 he was involved in the eSMA project in Hawaii to correlate the Dutch JCMT mm-telescope with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) of Harvard University. From 2005 to 2008 he was responsible for the construction of the first software radio telescope in the world, LOFAR (Low Frequency Array). In 2008 he became an Associate Professor in the Telecommunication Engineering Group at the University of Twente. In 2017 he became a full Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is now involved with research and education in radio science. Since 2023 he is the Dean of the Electrical Engineering faculty at Eindhoven University of Technology.
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Melissa Soriano
Payload Systems Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Melissa Soriano is a telecom systems engineer in the Flight Communications Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She developed real-time and high-performance software for over a decade for the Deep Space Network, including open loop receivers used for radio science and radio astronomy. Melissa specializes in telecom, especially challenging scenarios with low signal strength and high dynamics. She is currently the lead Telecom systems engineer on the Europa Clipper Flight Systems Engineering Team and the X-band Telecom systems engineering lead on the Mars Sample Retrieval Lander Mission. She has a BS from Caltech (double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Business Economics and Management) and an MS from George Mason University.
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