Welcome to my home on the Web! I try to keep this page updated with professional and academic information as well as some personal content.

I currently work on flight telecom systems at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Prior to that, I worked as a telecom software engineer at Lynk and spent some time as a postdoc in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where I worked with Jerry Park on next-generation WiFi and 5G security topics. Before that, I completed my Ph.D. at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University working with David J. Love and Chih-Chun Wang.

My research interests are somewhere at the intersection of communication theory, signal processing, and computer engineering. I have a passion for implementation and experimentation with software-defined radios: I was active in various SDR competitions throughout the years, I get to play with them at my day job, and I sometimes even find enough time for some freelance hacking at night.

For my undergraduate degree, I studied electrical engineering while playing the power forward position at Tennessee Tech University. Prior to that, I played both forward positions in Nürnberg as well as in Munich, my beautiful home town. In the rare case where I am not fighting with some tricky code in Emacs, you can usually find me out camping, hiking, or watching sports (and occasionally playing them, too) somewhere with sufficiently fresh air and good vibes.

For more information and an extended bio, see About Me. For a list of scholarly publications and a link to my blog, check out my Writings.

• March 11, 2023: Back to JPL after a great week of networking, technical sessions, and snowboarding at the 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference. Plus, our paper "Passive Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PPNT) in Cislunar Space using Earth-based Transmitters" won the Track 04 Best Paper Award! I was also a co-author on the paper: M. Kobayashi et al, "UST-Lite Direct Waveform Sampling Software-Defined Radio for Spaceflight Applications". I will update this news item as soon as these papers become available in IEEE Xplore. Contact me for preprints.
• November 15, 2022: Our paper titled "Passive Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PPNT) in Cislunar Space using Earth-based Transmitters" was accepted to the 2023 IEEE Aerospace Conference! See you in March 2023 in Big Sky!
• May 02, 2022: Gave a talk on work on Anomaly and Interference Detection for Space Radios and Iris at the 2022 Inter-Planetary Small Satellite Conference in San Luis Obispo, CA
• March 07, 2022: Gave a talk on our paper "Benchmarking and Testing of Qualcomm Snapdragon System-on-Chip for JPL Space Applications and Missions" at the 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, MT (Update August 10, 2022: Now available on IEEE Xplore)
• June 23, 2021: New paper published: G. Naik, D. Ogbe and J.-M. Park, "Can Wi-Fi 7 Support Real-Time Applications? On the Impact of Multi Link Aggregation on Latency"
• March 15, 2021: I started working as Signal Analysis Engineer at NASA JPL.