Dr. Sunil Bisnath

Professor Bisnath founded the GNSS Laboratory in 2007 and continues to lead the team.  He is a Full Professor in the Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering at York University in Toronto, Canada.  He has over 25 years of experience working with GNSS. His research centres on precise GNSS-focussed positioning and navigation with on-going focus on GNSS measurement models and positioning, Precise Point Positioning (PPP), navigation sensor fusion, mass-market hardware, transportation applications, GNSS receiver design, and GNSS-reflectometry for soil moisture determination.  Previous to York University, Professor Bisnath held the positions of geodesist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Boston, Massachusetts and assistant research scientist at the University of Southern Mississippi, NASA Stennis Space Center, Mississippi.  He holds an Honours B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Surveying Science from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering from the University of New Brunswick.