Dr. Robert Scully of Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Ist Plenary Speech at APEMC 2020

Biography:

Bob holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Arlington in Electrical Engineering with strong emphasis in electromagnetics, is an IEEE Fellow, a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas, a licensed commercial (PG-12-27194) and amateur (KGSKW) radio operator, holds various EMC certifications from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology) and iNART E, and is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.

Within the IEEE EMC Society, Bob is currently serving as the Immediate Past President of the Society. He previously served in all Officer positions for the Technical Activities Committee, Technical Committee 1, Technical Committee 4, was Vice Pres of Technical Services, and most recently was the President of the Society. Bob is also an Associate Editor for the EMC Society Transactions, and is currently serving as the founder and Chair of the Galveston Bay/ Houston EMC Chapter.

Bob holds a Federal GS 15 rating, and is the Johnson Space Center Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Group Lead Engineer, serving as the technical lead for EMC at the Center. Bob is also the lead for the Community of Practice for EMC within the Agency. Bob supports NASA's major programs including the International Space Station, the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and the Commercial Crew Development Program, providing expertise and guidance in development of tailored electromagnetic compatibility specifications, including control plans, interference control testing methodologies, ESD control, and lightning protection and test. Bob's combination of technical expertise and EMC community leadership has been instrumental in establishing technical coordination between flight hardware contractors, the NASA technical community, NASA Program Offices, Commercial Spacecraft Industry Partners and various external agencies and organizations.

Prior to working for NASA, Bob was the lead military EMC engineer for his last 3 years at Bell Helicopter. Bob worked for Bell Helicopter for 12 years, starting on the assembly line. He eventually worked his way up through several different departments at Bell, including Quality, Technical Customer Support, Field Service Engineering, and finally design engineering.

Bob has also worked in various other positions, including switching power supply design, flight-line support of a small fleet of commercial and business jets, and weapons research and development for the US Army supporting operations on the instrumented range at Fort Hunter Liggett.

Dr. William Young of P612 Defense Technology

Biography:

Dr. William Young received a MS from Washington State University, Pullman in 1998 and a PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2006, both in electrical engineering. At Sandia National Laboratories, between 1998 and 2003, his contributions included design, validation testing, information security assessment, and accreditation of communication systems for the DoD, the Defense Science Organization in Singapore, and the Bureau of Reclamation. Selected for the Sandia Doctoral Studies Program in 2003, his research focused on optimizing RF propagation from ad hoc wireless arrays and characterizing RF penetration of large buildings. From 2006 to 2010 at Sandia, Dr. Young investigated electromagnetic interference on wireless LANs applied to space-borne telemetry applications, and the use of MIMO for perimeter intrusion detection.

From 2010 to 2018 at NIST, Dr. Young developed radiated test methods for evaluating the RF performance of wireless communication devices, including the application of electromagnetic reverberation chambers and real-world RF environment statistics for the National Fire Protection Association Electronic Safety Equipment Committee. He was a key technical contributor to the NFPA 1982: Standard for RF Personal Alert Safety Systems, and the ANSI C63.27 – Standard for Evaluation of Wireless Coexistence, published in May 2017.  From 2016 to 2018, Dr. Young served as the Group Leader for Shared Spectrum Metrology in the NIST Communications Technology Laboratory and served as the chief technical lead for the National Advanced Spectrum and Communication Test Network (NASCTN) investigation of LTE impacts on GPS L1 Band receivers.

In 2018, Dr. Young joined the MITRE Corporation, currently serving as a subject matter expert in test and evaluation of spectrum sharing technologies. He is leading an economic study of aeronautical mobile telemetry spectrum, leading a NASCTN project investigating the impacts of LTE signals on AMT receivers, and exploring approaches to managing electromagnetic interference in a dynamic spectrum sharing environment

Dr. Young has authored or co-authored over 60 journal, conference, and government and industry technical reports covering the breadth of his subject matter expertise. He regularly presents at the IEEE EMC Symposium as well as other government and industry associations.  Dr. Young’s awards include the Sandia Employee Recognition Award for the Water Security Risk Assessment Team in 2002, the Department of Commerce Gold Award in 2017 and the NIST Special Act Award for the LTE impacts on GPS L1 Band receivers in 2017, and the MITRE Catalyst Award for leadership documenting the economic value associated with AMT Spectrum in 2019. Dr. Young joined the IEEE EMC Society in 2005, and since 2015 he regularly teaches classes on radio frequency measurements at the University of Colorado, Denver.