Frank David Lind

Research Engineer My research focuses on radio science, advanced radar and radio arrays, space plasma physics, software radar, novel sensors and signal processing, and satellite instrumentation.

Office Phone 617-715-5561

Email flind@mit.edu

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I was born near Portland, Oregon. After attending high school in Seattle, I studied at the University of Washington, where I received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 1994. I then joined the UW Geophysics Program and pursued studies leading to the Doctor of Philosophy in Geophysics in 1999. My work there focused on passive radar observations of the aurora borealis. Currently I am a Research Engineer at MIT Haystack Observatory, where I develop and operate ground- and space-based radio science instrumentation.

Spotlight Projects

AERO-VISTA CubeSat mission

A NASA twin CubeSat mission for auroral radio science and space interferometry technology.

RAPID: Radio Array of Portable Interferometric Detectors

Advanced radio array designed for geospace and astronomy. The system implements a sparse and spatially diverse radio array technology to enable a wide range of scientific experiments.

Recent Publications

Sensitivity of an Electromagnetic Vector Sensor. 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference. (2024). DOI: https://doi-org.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/10.1109/aero58975.2024.10521241

Multi-Mode Array Feed Operations with the Westford Radio Telescope. 2024 United States National Committee of URSI National Radio Science Meeting (USNC-URSI NRSM). (2024). DOI: https://doi-org.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/10.23919/usnc-ursinrsm60317.2024.10465148

Initial Observations of Starlink Satellites Using the Westford Radio Telescope. IEEE DySPAN 2024. (2024).

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