Dr. Benjamin K. Malphrus is Professor of Space Science at Morehead State University where he also directs the University’s Space Science Center and serves as the Director of Space Operations for the Kentucky Space program. He has served as Principal Investigator on several nanosatellite missions including KySat-1, CXBN 1 and 2, and TechSat-1. He and his team recently received an $8M contract from NASA to design a small space probe to fly to the Moon to prospect for water ice. In the late 1990s, he developed a theory of galaxy formation that has gained wide acceptance among the astronomical community.

Microsatellite and Picosatellite systems engineering, Satellite Ground Operations, The Physics of Interacting Galaxies and The Cosmic X-Ray Background

Dr. Fairouz Kamareddine is an Professor in department of mathematics and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University.

Mathematics and Computer sciences.

Daniel Wheeler Bursch is a former NASA astronaut, and Captain of the United States Navy. He had four spaceflights, the first three of which were Space Shuttle missions lasting 10 to 11 days each. His fourth and final spaceflight was a long-duration stay aboard the International Space Station as a crew member of Expedition 4, which lasted from December 2001 to June 2002. He Graduated from Vestal Senior High School, Vestal, New York, in 1975; received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the United States Naval Academy in 1979, and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Science from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1991.

Space Systems, Astronautics, Aerospace

Timothy Sands completed his PhD at the Naval Postgraduate School and postdoctoral studies at Stanford University and Columbia University, and is currently Associate Dean of the Naval Postgraduate School’s engineering school. Dr. Sands is an International Scholar Laurette of the Golden Key International Honor Society, a Fellow of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and panelist of both the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship program and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. He has published prolifically, and given several plenary, keynote and invitational presentations. Dr. Sands holds one patent in spacecraft attitude control

Communications, Korean Affairs, Chinese, Defense Systems Acquisitions, Guidance and Control, Space Systems, Astronautics, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Warfare

Najib Odhah received the BSc, MSc, and PhD from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf, Egypt, in 2002, 2009 and 2013, respectively. From 2013 to 2015, he was an assistant professor in the electrical communications department, engineering faculty, Ibb university, Yemen. He is currently working as Postdoc in the institute of high performance (IHP) microelectronics, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. His research areas of interest include wireless communications, signal processing techniques for wireless communications, multiple antennas techniques for wireless communications, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) techniques (traditional, cooperative, and massive), power allocation algorithms for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Systems (traditional and cognitive), Radio Resource Management (RRM) for wireless communications, digital signal processing, digital communications, Interference Cancellation and Interference Coordination (ICIC) techniques, channel estimation and equalization, game theory based optimization techniques for future 5G wireless communication systems, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, Device-to-Device (D2D) communications, and green wireless communications.

wireless communications

James Hansen Newman, Ph.D. (born October 16, 1956) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. Newman graduated from La Jolla High School, San Diego, California, in 1974; he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in Physics from Dartmouth College in 1978, a Master of Arts degree and a Doctorate in Physics from Rice University in 1982 and 1984, respectively.

Use of CubeSats for focused research of National interest: MC3 - Mobile CubeSat Command and Control, infrastructure research and development for CubeSat ground stations, optimization of capability to support many satellites with few ground stations CNGB - CubeSat Next Generation Bus, infrastructure research and development with LLNL on optimizing the bus for payload support NPSCuL - NPS CubeSat Launcher, infrastructure research and development for launching CubeSats on Government launch vehicles, optimization of vibration environments for CubeSats HAB - High Altitude Balloons, research and use of high altitude balloons for technology testing, including radio and ground station testing. Also for use in STEM outreach to High School and College students.

Russell Mathers is currently Executive Director at AF Nuclear Command, Control and Communications Cente. His Personal experience includes senior positions with extensive operations and planning background. Expert in contingency planning, crisis management and integrating cyberspace and kinetic operations worldwide.

B-2 and B-52 nuclear and conventional background, Pacific Rim specialty, TS/SCI clearance. Nuclear Deterrence, Command and Control Communications, Korean Affairs, Chinese, Defense Systems Acquisitions, Guidance and Control, Space Systems, Astronautics, Aerospace,

Nicolas H Younan is currently the Department Head and James worth Bagley Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU). He received the BS and MS degrees from MSU in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and the PhD degree from Ohio University in 1988. His research interests include signal processing and pattern recognition. He has been involved in the development of advanced image processing and pattern recognition techniques for remote sensing applications, image/data fusion, feature extraction and classification, automatic target recognition/identification, and image information/data mining.

Remote Sensing