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IVS 2018 Directing Board Elections
Candidates for Representative Positions
This page provides information about the candidates for representative positions
on the IVS Directing Board. Within each category candidates are listed alphabetically
by their family names. The Representatives will be elected by the Associate Members.
Candidates for Networks Representative
Hayo Hase
Hayo Hase has been involved in VLBI since his studies at the University of Bonn in the
1980s, when he worked in the VLBI group first as a student and later as a scientist.
During 1991–1993 he was setting up the VLBI station at O'Higgins base in Antarctica
and performed the first VLBI experiments there. Since 1994 he has been working with
the TIGO project, first during its construction at Wettzell, Germany; from 2002-2015
as network station head in Concepción, Chile. Since 2015 Hayo has been guiding
the transformation of TIGO into the new Argentinean-German Geodetic Observatory (AGGO)
at a new site close to the town of La Plata in Argentina.
He was the lead for writing the technical specifications of the Twin Telescope Wettzell
project as the first rigorous VGOS realization. Hayo has visited many IVS Network Stations.
Since its inception Hayo has significantly contributed to the IVS; e.g., design of the
Web presense, feature editor of the IVS Newsletter (ongoing), member of several IVS
Working Groups: WG2 (Product Specification and Observing Programs), WG3 (VLBI2010), WG5
(Space Science Applications), and WG6 (VLBI Education). He organized several IVS
workshops as well as the IVS General Meeting 2006. He was chairman of the VGOS Project
Execution Group (V2PEG) in the period 2009–2018. Hayo served on the IVS Directing
Board as Network Representative in the period 2008–2015. Since 2008 he represents the
IVS on the Committee of Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF).
Hiroshi Munekane
Hiroshi Munekane obtained a science degree in Geophysics from the University of Tokyo
in 2001. He has been working for the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI)
since then. He is now head of the space geodesy division at GSI and is leading the VLBI
group. His main research fields are noise evaluation of coordinate time series obtained
by various space geodetic techniques and signal extraction from them. Hiroshi was also
engaged in the investigation of seasonal vertical displacements of the Tsukuba 32-m
antenna as well as in the evaluation of a mapping function developed with a local
fine-scale numerical weather model.
Candidates for Correlators and Operation Centers Representative
David Hall
David Hall began his involvement with the IVS and VLBI as an analyst with the
Fundamental Reference Frame Division at USNO in 1996. His duties were to perform
the USNO analysis on R1, R4, CRF, and INT1 sessions in addition to scheduling
CRF sessions. In 2006 he transferred to the VLBI operations division in the Earth
Orientation department at USNO to work on the Mark4 correlator. In addition to
acting as the correlator project manager he was responsible for managing the
CONT08 and CONT11 campaigns as well as overseeing the transition from the Mark4
to the DiFX correlator. He has been the chief of the VLBI Operations Division
since 2012 and served as the Correlators and Operation Centers Representative
on the IVS Directing Board since 2017.
Laura La Porta
Laura La Porta received her academic degree in Astronomy in Bologna and then moved
to Germany for her PhD. The topic of her thesis was the study of the Galactic
Radio Emission as foreground for CMB anisotropies measurements. She has been
working as a scientist at the VLBI correlator in Bonn since the end of 2008, where
she profited from the tight collaboration with VLBI astronomers and geodesists,
while learning about VLBI and its applications. During her ten years at the MPIfR
in Bonn she gained an in-depth knowledge of the routines, the problems and the
challenges of VLBI operations and, especially, the work at an IVS correlator. This
experience is making her a valuable candidate for the position of the Correlator
and Operations Centers representative, in particular, in this moment of transition
between S/X operations and VGOS operations.
Candidates for Analysis and Data Centers Representative
James M. Anderson
James Anderson holds a PhD in Physics from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology in 2007. Prior to that he obtained a Master of Science in Physics in 2001
and a Bachelor of Science in Physics in 1994. James has been employed at the Technical
University in Berlin since 2018. James has worked on D-VLBI and spacecraft VLBI at
GFZ Potsdam, developing code for the DiFX correlator software at the Max Planck
Institute for Radio Astronomy and on ionospheric calibrations at the Joint Institute
for VLBI ERIC (JIVE). James has also worked for the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics
Potsdam (AIP) in 2013 and achieved his PhD dissertation on astronomical VLBI at the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory in 2002. James has a deep knowledge about the
various steps of VLBI data generation and flow and of VLBI analysis and has a broad
overview of the various scientific aspects of astronomical, astrometric, and geodetic
VLBI.
Jinling Li
Jinling Li has a PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He currently works as a
research professor at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. Jinling’s expertise is
in radio astrometry and space geodesy with emphasis in data analysis and technology
development. Just recently, Jingling has been involved in the technology development
of VLBI observation system for astrometry and geodesy as well as the further development
of the VLBI network in Shanghai.
Candidates for Technology Development Centers Representative
Chester Ruszczyk
Chester "Chet" Ruszczyk obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University,
Massachusetts, in 1998. His career crossed between hardware and software development at
both start ups, telecommunication, and research corporations. For the past 13 years he has
been working with instrumentation development for VLBI (e-VLBI, recorders, digital backends,
cable delay measurement systems) used for both the geodetic and astronomy groups at MIT
Haystack Observatory. He has led the buildout, verification, commissioning, and evaluation
of the broadband signal chain of Kokee Park Geophysical Observatory (KPGO) that saw first
light in February 2016 and became a regular station in VGOS broadband sessions in April
of that year. This process was not only about KPGO signal chain verification but also
involved the end-to-end verification of the VGOS observing process that continues today.
For the past 3 years, Chet has been working with the IVS to include, verify, and aid with
compatibility tests between the new VGOS systems coming online, specifically Onsala, while
helping to transition stable stations, e.g., Wettzell, Yebes, and Ishioka, into the core
VGOS network. He is currently leading the signal chain development for the next NASA VGOS
system at McDonald, Texas that is to be installed and commissioned by the summer of 2019.
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