On February 1, 2018, Dr. Yao Zheng, Associate Professor of Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University was awarded the 2017 "Early Achievement Award" by the Institute of Navigation (ION) to recognize his pioneering contributions in the satellite navigation signal design and multiplexing and his important role in promoting the design of the signal of China's Beidou navigation satellite system.
Associate Professor Yao Zheng wins the 2017 "Early Achievement Award" of ION
Associate Professor Yao Zheng delivers a speech at the award ceremony
The Early Achievement Award is the highest award established by the ION for young scholars under the age of 35 in the field of international navigation. It selects a young scholar who has made important contributions to world navigation science and technology as the award winner every year. The award was established in 1997 and there are a total of 22 award winners so far, most of whom have grown into world-famous scholars, including main designers of GPS modern signals, main contributors in the GPS Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), and the present chairman of the ION, et al. Dr. Yao Zheng is the first Chinese scholar that wins this award, and is also the first Asian scholar to receive this honor.
Dr. Yao Zheng is an associate professor of the Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Research Center of the Department of Electronic Engineering of our university, and he has been committed to the research of basic theories and key technologies of satellite navigation signal processing. He has obtained a series of achievements in the new generation of the interoperable signal structure design and multiplexing, which has not only been high praised by the international academia, but also has been applied in the Beidou-3 navigation satellite system in China. The quadrature multiplexed BOC (QMBOC) signal structure and the asymmetric constant envelope BOC (ACEBOC) signal structure proposed by him have been respectively applied in the B1 and B2 frequency point navigation signals of Beidou-3 respectively. His research results in the theory of navigation satellite signal multiplexing design have solved the technical problem of dual-frequency and multi-signal joint multiplexing of Beidou-3 satellite, which can achieve a smooth transition from Beidou-2 to Beidou-3. These achievements not only have laid a solid technical foundation for the construction of the Beidou-3 system, but also have strongly promoted the bilateral cooperation of compatibility and interoperability between Beidou and GPS. With the successive launch of Beidou-3 network satellites, the new generation of Beidou navigation satellite signals mainly designed by Tsinghua University will provide various users in the world with high-performance positioning, navigation and timing services in the next few decades and are of great significance to the sustainable development of the application and industrialization of Beidou navigation satellite in China.
The ION is a non-profit academic organization with the largest scale and the biggest influence in the navigation field in the world. The Institute was established in 1945. In the past 70 years since its establishment, it has been committed to promoting the development of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) science and technology. Its members are in more than 50 countries around the world, covering all aspects of aerospace, aviation, navigation and land positioning, navigation and timing. Dr. Yao Zheng's winning of the Early Achievement Award of the ION as the first Chinese scholar is not only his personal honor, but also the high recognition of the satellite navigation technology of China, especially of our university by the international academia.
