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Experience

  1. Senior Staff Security Engineer, Xona Space Systems.
    Jan 2026 – Present · Burlingame, CA
    • Company-wide technical authority for security architecture across space, ground, cloud, and user-equipment segments of Xona Pulsar's LEO navigation service.
    • Define, design, and maintain the company's end-to-end security requirements, security strategy, threat models, key management, credential provisioning, and implementation standards for a satellite constellation and supporting infrastructure.
    • Manage team of engineers to securely implement, validate, and operate the aforementioned systems.
    • Represent the company in customer, partner, and government security discussions and external technical reviews.
  2. Senior Security Engineer, Xona Space Systems.
    Sep 2024 – Jan 2026 · Burlingame, CA
    • Designed and transmitted from space the world's most advanced GNSS cryptography system featuring data and ranging authentication and data encryption for Xona's Pulsar, secured IP rights, and published results.
    • Implemented and tested cryptography systems in satellite payload software and manage customer-facing SDK and simulated test data for customer implementation verification.
    • Managed continuous integration and testing of satellite signal testing.
  3. Consultant, Xona Space Systems.
    Jun 2022 – Dec 2023 · Burlingame, CA
    • Applied PhD work to design efficient authentication for future low-earth-orbit satellite navigation system
    • Augmented simulation tools and authored Monte Carlo analysis to verify propulsion requirements for precision orbit determination
    • Implemented Gitlab continuous integration for Matlab and Python development
  4. Associate Engineer - Post Grad, Space Lasers, SpaceX.
    Jun 2020 - Sep 2020, Nov 2020 - Jan 2021 · Hawthorne, CA
    • Designed efficient optical actuator system identification experiments for production
    • Verified optical noise model predictions and low-level-hardware non-linear controller efficacy for space hardware
    • Authored production-level analysis code to assert space hardware unit optical jitter-rejection-control and alignment efficacy from unit verification experiments
    • Implemented Dockerized Atlasssian continuous integration build checking for Matlab development
  5. Mechanical and Software Engineering Intern, General Atomics.
    May 2019 – Sep 2019 · San Diego, CA
    • Fixed look-down gimbal pointing algorithms on weather-balloon hoisted glider under time pressure for mid-summer government customer demo; issues diagnosed by creating and performing simulations, lab, and flight tests
    • Developed dynamic satellite simulation for satellite laser communication to verify pointing control algorithms
    • Implemented Remote Procedure Call software for satellite system in c++ and wrote API to connect 3rd-party hardware remotely.
  6. Mechanical and Software Engineering Intern, General Atomics.
    May 2018 – Aug 2018 · San Diego, CA
    • Developed Target queuing and clearing house for anti-missile, anti-mortar laser defense gimbal system
    • Designed and implemented c++ coding of gimbal coordinate system calibration, differential GPS localization, clearing house, and system identification for embedded gimbal control
  7. Mechanical Engineering Intern, General Atomics.
    May 2017 – Aug 2017 · San Diego, CA
    • Designed, built, and analyzed supporting structures and inventions for optical experiments supporting IR&D regarding Boost Phase Intercept technology with Solidworks and ANSYS
    • Modeled and created drawings in Solidworks with GD&T; conducted ANSYS structure, modal, and harmonic analyses
  8. Legal Engineering Department Specialist, General Atomics.
    May 2016 – Jan 2020 · San Diego, CA
    • Review agreements, communications, and reports to provide feedback on technical understanding; write procedures; improve logistical work flow with software; liaison among senior executives and technical experts

Education

  1. Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
  2. Ph.D. Minor in Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
  3. M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
  4. B.S. in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Skills

  1. Languages: C++, CUDA C++, HTML, Java, Javascript, LaTeX, Matlab, MCNP, Python, Solidity
  2. Tools: CVX, OpenCV, Docker, Git, PyTorch, ROS, TensorFlow

Awards

  1. Bradford W. Parkinson Award. Institute of Navigation (ION).
    Awarded for doctoral dissertation “Designing Cryptography Systems for GNSS Data and Ranging Authentication” recognizing an outstanding graduate student in the field of Position, Navigation, Timing (PNT) and/or Applications.
  2. William E. Jackson Award. Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA).
    Awarded for doctoral dissertation “Designing Cryptography Systems for GNSS Data and Ranging Authentication” recognizing an outstanding graduate student in aviation electronics and telecommunications.
  3. Ballhaus Prize for Best Ph.D. Thesis. Stanford University.
    Awarded for doctoral dissertation “Designing Cryptography Systems for GNSS Data and Ranging Authentication” by the Stanford Aeronautics and Astronautics Faculty for the best PhD Thesis.

Publication List

  1. Authentication Security of PRF GNSS Ranging. Jason Anderson (2025).
  2. Xona Pulsar: World’s First Over-the-air Rekeying of a Commercial GNSS Service for Defense Application. Jason Anderson, Neal Fedora (2026). Presentation, 2026 Joint Navigation Conference (JNC).
  3. World’s First Authenticated Satellite Pseudorange from Orbit. Jason Anderson (2025). Proceedings of the 38th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2025).
  4. User-Specific Dynamic Authenticated Encryption for Xona’s PULSAR. Jason Anderson (2025). Presentation at the IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS).
  5. Combinatorial Watermarking Under Limited SCER Adversarial Models. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Todd Walter (2025). NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation.
  6. Time Synchronization of TESLA-enabled GNSS Receivers. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Todd Walter (2025). IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
  7. Designing Cryptography Systems for GNSS Data and Ranging Authentication. Jason Anderson (2024).
  8. Authentication Security of Combinatorial Watermarking for GNSS Signal Authentication. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Todd Walter (2024). NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation.
  9. Revisiting Combinatorial Watermarking under SCER Adversarial Models. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Todd Walter (2024). Proceedings of the ION 2024 Pacific PNT Meeting.
  10. Combinatorial Watermarking for GNSS Signal Authentication. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Todd Walter (2024). Proceedings of the 2024 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation.
  11. Authentication Security of Combinatorial Watermarking for GNSS Signal Authentication. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Todd Walter (2023). Proceedings of the 36th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2023).
  12. Authentication of Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems with Over-the-Air Rekeying Schemes. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Andrew Neish, Todd Walter (2023). NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation.
  13. Addressing a Critical Vulnerability in Upcoming Broadcast-only TESLA-based GNSS-enabled Systems. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Todd Walter (2023). Proceedings of the 2023 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation.
  14. Time Synchronization for TESLA-based GNSS-enabled Systems. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Todd Walter (2022). Proceedings of the 35th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2022).
  15. Efficient and Secure Use of Cryptography for Watermarked Signal Authentication. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Todd Walter (2022). Proceedings of the 2022 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation.
  16. Cryptographic Ranging Authentication with TESLA, Rapid Re-keying, and a PRF. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Todd Walter (2022). Proceedings of the 2022 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation.
  17. On SBAS Authentication with OTAR Schemes. Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo, Andrew Neish, Todd Walter (2021). Proceedings of the 34th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2021).
  18. Implementation of Data Authentication on SBAS. Todd Walter, Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo (2024). Proceedings of the ION 2024 Pacific PNT Meeting.
  19. SBAS Signal Authentication. Brady O’Hanlon, Joseph J Rushanan, Christopher Hegarty, Jason Anderson, Todd Walter, Sherman Lo (2022). Proceedings of the 35th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2022).
  20. SBAS Message Schemes to Support Inline Message Authentication. Todd Walter, Jason Anderson, Sherman Lo (2021). Proceedings of the 34th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2021).
  21. SBAS Message Authentication: A Review of Protocols, Figures of Merit and Standardization Plans. Ignacio Fernández-Hernández, Todd Walter, Andrew M Neish, Jason Anderson, Mikael Mabilleau, Giovanni Vecchione, Eric Châtre (2021). Proceedings of the 2021 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation.
  22. Message Authentication Candidates for the SBAS Dual Frequency Multi-Constellation Standard. Ignacio Fernandez-Hernandez, Todd Walter, Mikael Mabilleau, Luciano Tosato, Andrea Dalla Chiara, Daniele Pozza, Oscar Pozzobon, Alessandra Calabrese, Jason Anderson, Eric Châtre (2021). Proceedings of the 34th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2021).
  23. Assembly and metrology of NIF target subassemblies using robotic systems. K Boehm, N Alexander, J Anderson, L Carlson, M Farrell (2017). High Power Laser Science and Engineering.
  24. Dynamical system scaling of integral natural circulation experiments for fluoride-salt cooled reactors. AJ Novak, N Zweibaum, J Anderson, PF Peterson (2016). 2016 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants, ICAPP 2016.