Turf Truth

Scott Darden received a B.S. and M.S. in EE from the University of Southern California in 1999 and 2002, respectively. Mr. Darden was an employee of JPL from 1999-2008 working on simulations as well as analysis, design, and development of software and hardware for advanced space-based and aircraft receivers. He has been responsible for the FPGA firmware development for LUAVR and DCR. Recently he has been involved in processing the DCR SAR GMTI data and implementing the DPCA algorithm, and for the recent Video SAR. Scott will be responsible for the development of all the signal processing algorithms and any simulations that support them.

Dr. Kai Lin is a radar systems engineer working in the field of FMCW radar for 18 years. He has designed and developed several radar systems, including ground-penetrating radar, imaging radar for tactical UAV, and automotive radar. Besides designing traditional RF components and modules, he works on the integration of digital technology with RF circuits. Dr. Lin received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) in 2006. During his Ph.D. program between 2002 and 2006, Dr. Lin has developed the world’s first leakage canceller in Ka-band for monostatic FMCW radar.

Greg has been involved in business and technology development consulting for start-ups for over a decade with one of his most recent product development efforts resulting in a next generation radar product for military applications and a large scale solar industrial technology. Greg obtained his MS in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a certificate for Entrepreneurship from Draper University. He is a former JPL/Caltech manager and research scientist with over of 37+ patents (50+ overseas) in technology as well as being a Principal Investigator/Manager for 20+ R&D grants and co-PI on many more. He has been a member of the Leadership Council for the American Council on Renewable Energy and the NRCC Business Council, winner of the Congressional Medal of Distinction (2006), Congressional Order of Merit (2007), Reagan Presidential Commission, NASA Space Act Award, and a Principal investigator for a NASA Space Station experiment. 140+ publications.