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Washington Yotto Ochieng

Washington Yotto Ochieng CBE FREng FICE is a Kenyan-born British academic who is Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London.[2] Previously, he was Head of the Centre for Transport Studies and Co-Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology(ISST) together with Deeph Chana.[3] Ochieng is a Senior Security Science Fellow in ISST.[1] He also serves as Director of the Engineering Geomatics Group and Chair of Positioning and Navigation Systems.

Washington Yotto Ochieng
CBE FREng FICE
Born
Washington Yotto Ochieng

Kendu Bay, Kenya
Alma materUniversity of Nairobi (BSc)
University of Nottingham (PhD)
SpouseAbosede Ochieng (m. 1997)
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsNavigation
Positioning
Transport
Aviation
Geomatics[1]
InstitutionsImperial College London
Thales Group
ThesisWide area DGPS and fiducial network design (1993)
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/w.ochieng

Early life and education

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He is the son of Michael Yotto Amoko and Grace Akumu Yotto (née Radigo). He earned his BSc (First Class) in Engineering from the University of Nairobi in 1988, before moving to the United Kingdom where he studied for an MSc (distinction) at the University of Nottingham. He went on to a study for a PhD in Differential GPS (DGPS) and fiducial network design.[4][5]

Personal life

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In 1997, Washington Ochieng married microbiologist and science teacher, Abosede Ochieng (née Salako). They have two children.

Research and career

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Ochieng remained at Nottingham as a postdoctoral research associate after his PhD, before joining Thales Group as a navigation engineer. Ochieng joined Imperial College London in 1997. He works on the design and application of navigation systems, and hopes to achieve a truly global position, navigation and timing (PNT) system.[6] Professor Ochieng works in the area of intelligent traffic control especially Smart Intermodal User-Centric Mobility and how it can be used in security and to regulate traffic in congested streets and railways, as well as in air traffic management and maritime management.[7][8][9] He has been involved with several international projects, including European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), Galileo, global navigation satellite system (GNSS) and the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) joint undertaking.[5][10] For the GNSS system, Ochieng worked on sensing, modelling of errors in the positional accuracy and ultra-wideband radio systems.[11] He has been involved with the transformation of London's transport system and introduction of the London Congestion Charge.[12][13]

He was promoted to a Chair in Positioning and Navigation Systems in 2007.[14][15] In 2021, he became the Vice President of the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN). His focussed research is into the development of tools that help to shape the thinking of societies in the design and building of infrastructure resilience and security; smart user-centric intermodal mobility and; Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) systems.[16]

At Imperial College London, Ochieng is part of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Civil Engineering.[17] He has advised on algorithms that can support the navigation of satellites.[18][19][20]

In 2021, Ochieng was an expert witness on UK space strategy and UK satellite infrastructure at the Parliamentary select committee on science and technology.[21]

Awards and honours

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  • 1994 Nottingham, United Kingdom, The Leica Award for the Best Postgraduate Student in Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy, United States. Recipient Best Session paper, United States Institute Navigation, [22]
  • 1994 Best Paper – Airborne Detection of Calibration Errors in DME Navigation Aids, awarded by the Institute of Navigation,[22]
  • 2004 Best Paper – Integrated positioning algorithms for Transport Telematics Applications, Awarded by Institute of Navigation[22]
  • 2005 Imperial College London, Rector's Merit Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching, Professional Contribution and Administration[citation needed]
  • 2005 Best Poster Presentations at the 57th Annual Conference of the Aeronautical Society of India, Dr Abdul KAlam award – Best research presentation on aviation target safety outcomes, Awarded by the Aeronautical Society of India[22]
  • 2005 Baltimore, USA, Best Paper – The factors affecting airspace capacity in Europe: A framework methodology based on cross-sectional time-series analysis Awarded at the 6th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management (ATM) Research & Development Seminar [22]
  • 2006 Imperial College London, Excellence in Teaching Award
  • 2007 The Michael Richey Medal for Best Paper in the Journal of Navigation Awarded by The Royal Institute of Navigation, UK
  • 2009 GPS World Magazine global GNSS Leaders to watch[23]
  • 2019 Harold Spencer Jones Gold Medal, the highest award from the Royal Institute of Navigation.

In 2013, Ochieng was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)[24] He is also a Fellow of the UK Institutions of Civil Engineers, Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation, RIN and Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors.[25]

In the 2024 Birthday Honours, Washington Yotto Ochieng was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to global positioning and navigation systems.[26]

References

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  1. ^ a b Washington Yotto Ochieng publications indexed by Google Scholar  
  2. ^ "Home - Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng".
  3. ^ "Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng joins Imperial's ISST as Co-Director | Imperial News | Imperial College London".
  4. ^ Ochieng, Washington Yotto (1993). Wide area DGPS and fiducial network design. discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Nottingham. OCLC 556653523.
  5. ^ a b "Home - Professor Washington Y. Ochieng". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  6. ^ London, Main campus address: Imperial College; Campus, South Kensington. "Positioning, navigation and timing". Imperial News. Imperial College London. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  7. ^ London, Main campus address: Imperial College; Campus, South Kensington. "Beijing leader hails growing Imperial-China collaborations". Imperial News. Imperial College London. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  8. ^ Smith, Peri; Kyriakidis, Miltos; Majumdar, Arnab; Ochieng, Washington Y (2012). "Impact of European Railway Traffic Management System on Human Performance in Railway Operations European Findings". SSRN Working Paper Series. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2506609. ISSN 1556-5068.
  9. ^ "Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering". Imperial News. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  10. ^ "iNsight Project's Website -- Latest News". insight-gnss.org. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  11. ^ "Extending the Applications and Improving the Efficiency of Positioning Through the Exploitation of New GNSS Signals". UKRI. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  12. ^ "Meet Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng Who Solved London's Traffic Crisis". kenyans.co.ke. 4 December 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  13. ^ Administrator, System (2002-11-22). "C is for Chaos". The Engineer. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  14. ^ "Of the earth and the heavens: towards seamless positioning". imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  15. ^ "Gold medal for outstanding contribution to navigation". imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London. 19 November 2019. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  16. ^ "Deployment challenges of PNT technologies for location-based services with Prof Washington Ochieng". youtube. Royal Institute of Navigation. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  17. ^ "EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Civil Engineering". UKRI. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  18. ^ Quddus, Mohammed A.; Ochieng, Washington Yotto; Zhao, Lin; Noland, Robert B. (2003). "A general map matching algorithm for transport telematics applications". GPS Solutions. 7 (3): 157–167. Bibcode:2003GPSS....7..157Q. doi:10.1007/s10291-003-0069-z. ISSN 1521-1886. S2CID 12278847.
  19. ^ Quddus, Mohammed A.; Noland, Robert B.; Ochieng, Washington Y. (2007). "A High Accuracy Fuzzy Logic Based Map Matching Algorithm for Road Transport". Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 10 (3): 103–115. doi:10.1080/15472450600793560. ISSN 1547-2450. S2CID 16559648.
  20. ^ Quddus, Mohammed A.; Ochieng, Washington Y.; Noland, Robert B. (2007). "Current map-matching algorithms for transport applications: State-of-the art and future research directions". Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 15 (5): 312–328. doi:10.1016/j.trc.2007.05.002. ISSN 0968-090X. S2CID 16091213.
  21. ^ "Parliamentlive.tv".
  22. ^ a b c d e "Honours and Memberships - Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng".
  23. ^ http://digital.gpsworld.com/May2009 m=59713&i=706586&p=36&uri=%2FMay2009&ver=html5
  24. ^ "60 new Fellows elected to the Academy for 2013". RAEng. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  25. ^ "Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng". imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  26. ^ "Awards for Birthday Honours List 2024" (PDF).
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