Bio

Gonzalo Seco-Granados (IEEE Fellow) received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, in 2000, and the MBA degree from the IESE Business School, Spain, in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he was technical staff of the European Space Agency, The Netherlands, where he was involved in the design of the Galileo system and receivers. In 2015, 2019 and 2022, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, where he was Vice Dean of the Engineering School, from 2011 to 2019. He has contributed to the seminal works on “5G positioning”. In the area of GNSS, he made pioneering contributions to the use of antenna arrays, and he has developed techniques to increase the robustness against of interference, multipath and spoofing attacks, and to improve energy efficiency of GNSS receivers. He is co-founder of Loctio, a start-up providing low-energy positioning solutions for IoT. He received an ICREA Academia award in 2013 and 2019, and won an IEEE Signal Processing Society’ Best Paper Award in 2021. He serves as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (SAM TC), and of the EURASIP Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems Technical Committee, since 2018 and 2022, respectively. Since 2019, he is the President of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society.

Research interests

His current research interests are estimation, performance bounds, optimization and signal design aspects for satellite-based positioning (GNSS and LEO-PNT), 5G/6G positioning, and integrated sensing and communications systems (ISAC).

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Additional Information

Ph.D. Dissertation: "Antenna Arrays for Multipath and Interference Mitigation in GNSS Receiver", Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Advisor: Prof. Juan A. Fernández-Rubio. [Manuscript] [Slides]

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• D. Egea-Roca, A. Xhafa, J. A. del Peral-Rosado, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "Joint OFDM Resource Allocation and RIS Phase Profile Design for ISAC-Enabled Localization in TN-NTN Networks", Proc. IEEE Integrated Sensing and Communication Conference (ISAC), Nov. 2026.
• A. Sapienza, O. Kaltiokallio, J. Talvitie, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, E. S. Lohan, M. Valkama, "Aerial SLAM: Feasibility of Localizing and Mapping Non-Terrestrial Objects with Cellular Technology", Proc. IEEE Integrated Sensing and Communication Conference (ISAC), Nov. 2026.
• M. Abu Aqoulah, D. Gurgunoglu, G. Fodor, G. Seco-Granados, "Near-Field ISAC in Cluttered Environments via Partial Relaxation", Proc. IEEE Integrated Sensing and Communication Conference (ISAC), Nov. 2026.
• R. Juran, O. Kaltiokallio, J. Equi, J. Talvitie, E. Lohan, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, M. Valkama, "Collaborative Radio SLAM toward 6G Cellular: Tracking Methods and Performance Results", Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Oct. 2026.
• E. Dominguez-Tijero, J. Fidalgo, M. Meneses, F. A. Pinto, D. García, F. J. Mata, D. Giustiniano, G. Santaromita, T. Otim, F. Pigato, A. Reus, M. Fernández-Temprado, Q. Liu, F. Fabra, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "A Unified Hybrid Terminal Integrating GNSS and LEO-PNT with 5G and LEO Signals of Opportunity: Consolidated System Design and Measured", Proc. ION GNSS+, Sep. 2026.
• X. X. Zheng, X. Liu, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, T. Y. Al-Naffouri, "Coordination of Ground-to-Space Reference Networks for High-Precision GNSS", Proc. ION GNSS+, Sep. 2026.
• R. Terris-Gallego, O. Sardà-Martín, E. Takiguchi-Medina, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, A. Galan-Figueras, I. Fernandez-Hernandez, "Validating Galileo SAS Range Authentication and Positioning with Live Signal-in-Space", Proc. ION GNSS+, Sep. 2026.
• F. Fabra, A. Giménez, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, E. Dominguez-Tijero, F. A. Pinto-Benel, F. Grec, R. de Gaudenzi, "Exploring the Potential Capabilities of NB-IoT for Future LEO-PNT Missions", Proc. ION GNSS+, Sep. 2026.
• Q. Liu, M. Fernández-Temprado, A. Reus-Bergas, M. Meneses, D. García, E. Domínguez-Tijero, F. A. Pinto, F. J. Mata, J. Fidalgo, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, "Insights on Doppler-Based Positioning with a Single LEO Satellite and Experimental Validation", Proc. ION GNSS+, Sep. 2026.
• M. Abu Aqoulah, D. Gurgunoglu, G. Fodor, G. Seco-Granados, "Low-Complexity Multi-User Non-Line-of-Sight Channel Estimation", Proc. IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), Sep. 2026, [link].
• P. Maity, L. Italiano, A. Pourafzal, G. Seco-Granados, Hui Chen, M. Nicoli, H. Wymeersch, "From Pilot to Precoding Design: Blind Angular Spoofing For Location Privacy in MIMO Systems", Proc. International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Sep. 2026.
• L. Micaletto, A. Coluccia, A. Fascista, M. F. Keskin, G. Seco-Granados, H. Wymeersch, "Multi-beam Integrated Sensing and Communication with Background Subtraction in Cluttered Environments", Proc. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Aug. 2026.
• D. Egea-Roca, F. Fabra, A. Xhafa, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, G. Seco-Granados, "Time of Arrival and Time Difference of Arrival", chapter in Localization in Wireless Networks: Technologies and Applications, N. Saeed, M. A. Khan, editors, Wiley-IEEE Press, Aug. 2026.
• M. Papadakis, I. Rey, I. Diaconescu, R. Terris-Gallego, G. Seco-Granados, J. A. Lopez-Salcedo, V. Gracia, A. Pena, S. Navarta, M. Solé, "Strengthening GNSS Receivers via Authentication and High-Accuracy Overlays", Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace, July 2026, [link].