Degrees

B.S. in Physical Sciences, Honors College; Mathematics Minor – Washington State University: 1990
M.S. in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering – University of California, Davis: 1996
Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering – Stanford University: 2007

Research Interests

Current research focus is in multi-sensor mobile location, marine conservation and wildlife tagging studies, innovative navigation experiments enabled by hobby-class UAVs, and navigation systems security and integrity. Dr. De Lorenzo has been awarded 19 U.S. patents and has authored or co-authored over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and trade publications. A full listing is available upon request.

Recent Publications

The JÄGER Project: GPS Jammer Hunting with a Multi-Purpose UAV Test Platform, (with James Spicer, Adrien Perkins, Louis Dressel, Mark James, Yu-Hsuan Chen, and Per Enge), Proc. ION ITM 2015, pgs. 62-70.

GPS Anti-Jam: A Simple Method of Single Antenna Null-Steering for Aerial Applications, (with Emily McMilin, Thomas Lee, Per Enge, Dennis Akos, Stefano Caizzone, and Andriy Konovaltsev), Proc. ION Pacific PNT 2015, pgs. 470-483.

High-Accuracy Indoor Navigation utilizing RF Signatures and High-Fidelity Predictive Models, (Jian Jet Zhu, Di Qiu, Jerome Blaha, and Tarun Bhattacharya), Proc. ION GNSS 2013, pgs. 998-1005.

Validation of a Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna (CRPA) Receiver Built from Inexpensive General-purpose Elements During Several Live-jamming Test Campaigns, (with Yu-Hsuan Chen, Sherman Lo, Dennis Akos, and Per Enge), Proc. ION ITM 2013, pgs. 154-163.

Calibrating Adaptive Antenna Arrays for High-Integrity GPS, (with Jason Rife, Sherman Lo, and Per Enge), GPS Solutions, vol. 16, no. 2, pgs. 221-230, doi:10.1007/s10291-011-0224-x.

Efficient Authentication Mechanisms for Navigation Systems, (with Georg Becker, Sherman Lo, Di Qiu, Christof Paar, and Per Enge), Proc. ION GNSS 2009, pgs. 901-912.

Projects

SHARK TAG: Dr. De Lorenzo is leading a project in collaboration with the Hopkins Marine Station to develop and field an entirely new class of GPS-enabled wildlife tracking tags as part of a broad initiative that will target illegal shark fishing within protected marine sanctuaries.

JÄGER: He also is part of the team developing JÄGER, a reconfigurable flying testbed based on hobby-class UAVs which explores innovative navigation, sensor-fusion, and path-planning experiments.