15 July 2026
recognition
In September 2026, Prof. Li-Ta Hsu will lecture at the ION GNSS+ 2026 Masters Short Course Program — a special event marking the 40th anniversary of the Institute of Navigation’s flagship satellite-navigation conference. Prof. Hsu was invited as one of the ION Master Instructors: internationally recognized GNSS experts and educators who lecture as a service to the global navigation community. His course, “Indoor Navigation as GNSS in Disguise,” is scheduled for Monday, 14 September 2026 in Orlando, Florida.
The 40th-anniversary Masters Short Courses bring together many of the field’s most influential figures to tell the story of GNSS first-hand. Prof. Hsu joins a line-up that includes Dr. Bradford Parkinson — the chief architect of GPS — along with Dr. Frank van Diggelen (Google), Prof. Todd Humphreys (UT Austin), Prof. Penny Axelrad, Prof. Jade Morton, Prof. Terry Moore, and other ION Fellows and pioneers.
His lecture argues that indoor navigation and GNSS are, at heart, the same problem: the same geometry, multipath physics, and estimation principles govern both. It demonstrates how GNSS-inspired modelling and factor-graph methods unlock robust indoor positioning, and why seamless navigation across indoor and outdoor environments is fundamentally one unified estimation problem — a theme at the core of IPNL’s research.
The invitation adds to Prof. Hsu’s long engagement with the ION, where he serves as a Council Member and Technical Representative to the ION Council and has contributed recurring session-chair and tutorial roles across editions of ION GNSS+.