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Yan Soldo (yan.soldo@nasa.gov) received his B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from the Politecnico, Turin,
Italy, in 2007. He was selected for a joint double-degree
program with the Politecnico and Institut supérieur de
l'aéronautique et de l'espace-École nationale supérieure
de l'aéronautique et de l'espace in Toulouse, France, which
granted him two M.S. degrees in aerospace engineering
in 2010. In 2010, he was funded by the Centre National
d'Etudes Spatiales to pursue a Ph.D. degree in microwave
remote sensing at the Centre d'etudes spatiales de la biosphère research facility. His contributions are in the fields
of signal processing, data simulation, and radio-frequency
interference characterization and mitigation applied to the
soil moisture ocean salinity (SMOS) and SMOS-Next missions; he completed his Ph.D. degree in 2013. He is currently with the Earth Science Division, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, where he continues his work
on microwave remote sensing for the Aquarius and Soil
Moisture Active/Passive missions. He has cochaired the
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Frequency
Allocations in Remote Sensing Technical Committee since
2017. He is a Member of the IEEE.
Sandra Cruz-Pol (cruzpol@ece.uprm.edu) received her
B.S. degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
(UPRM), her M.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts, and her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from
Pennsylvania State University, working with passive and
active satellite sensors and studying atmospheric gases and
sea-surface emissivity; all three degrees were awarded summa cum laude. She joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UPRM in 1991, where she is now a
full professor. She is part of the U.S. National Academies of
Science (NAS) Committee on Radio Frequencies and is also
an appointed member of the NAS Active Spectrum Study.
She was the program director for the Enhancing Access to
the Radio Spectrum program and spectrum manager at the
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). She was appointed by the NSF to serve as a member of the U.S. Delegation
for Spectrum Management to the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva, Switzerland, and was the
NSF representative for the Interdepartment Radio Advisory
Committee at the U.S. National Telecommunications and
Information Administration and for other subcommittees,
including the Frequency Assignment subcommittee. While
with the NSF, she was selected as the federal liaison for the
U.S. National Committee for the International Union for
Radio Science. Her research interests include microwave
sensors, weather radars, and climate monitoring. She received the NASA Faculty Award for research in 2002. She
was associate editor of "University Affairs" for the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Newsletter for five years,
and she is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

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