January 2025: Zach Clements is currently a PhD student in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Radionavigation Laboratory. His research interests include statistical signal processing, optimal estimation, and software-defined radio, with an emphasis on GNSS interference detection, classification, and localization from Low Earth Orbit. Before his graduate work, he obtained his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University. His has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Politico, Financial Times, Forbes, and other media outlets discussing GNSS spoofing affecting civilian aviation. He won the IEEE Walter Fried Award for best paper and the CARMEN+ USDoT UTC Student Paper Award for his work on GNSS interference localization.
