Washington Yotto Ochieng

Washington Yotto Ochieng (born October 25, 1964)[2] FREng FICE is the Head of the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London.[1] He also serves as Director of the Engineering Geomatics Group and Chair of Positioning and Navigation Systems.

Washington Ochieng

FREng FICE
Born
Washington Yotto Ochieng

1964 (age 56–57)
Kendu Bay, Kenya
Alma materUniversity of Nairobi (BSc)
University of Nottingham (PhD)
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

Ochieng was born in Kendu Bay in Kenya to Grace Akumu Yotto and Michael Yotto Amoko. He earned a bachelor's in science and engineering from the University of Nairobi in 1988, before moving to the United Kingdom for his graduate studies. He studied satellite geodesy at the University of Nottingham where he was awarded a PhD in 1993 for research on Differential GPS (DGPS) and fiducial network design.[3][4]

Research and career

Ochieng stayed 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.[5][6] He serves as Head of the Centre for Transport Studies.[7][8] He is interested in intelligent traffic control and how it can be used to regulate traffic in congested streets and railways, as well as in air traffic management.[9][10] 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.[4][11] For the GNSS system, Ochieng worked on sensing, modelling of errors in the positional accuracy and ultra-wideband radio systems.[12] He has been involved with the transformation of London's transport system.[13][14][15] Ochieng was concerned about the amount of data that would be collected during the initial stages of the Congestion Charge.[16] He has advised the government on how to decongest the roads in Nairobi.[17] His recent research develops sensor data fusion for situational awareness in autonomous vehicles.[6]

At Imperial College London Ochieng is part of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Civil Engineering.[18][19] He has worked on algorithms that can support the navigation of satellites.[20][21] He was promoted to a Chair in Positioning and Navigation Systems in 2007.[22]

Awards and honours

References
  1. Washington Yotto Ochieng publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. "Home - Professor Washington Y. Ochieng". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  3. Ochieng, Washington Yotto (1993). Wide area DGPS and fiducial network design. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Nottingham. OCLC 556653523. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.335810.
  4. "Home - Professor Washington Y. Ochieng". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  5. "Dr Washington Ochieng". research.cs.ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  6. "Positioning, navigation and timing". Imperial College London. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  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. GNSS, Inside (2014-09-27). "Washington Ochieng". Inside GNSS. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  9. "Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering". Imperial News. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  10. 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.
  11. "iNsight Project's Website -- Latest News". insight-gnss.org. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  12. "Extending the Applications and Improving the Efficiency of Positioning Through the Exploitation of New GNSS Signals". UKRI. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  13. KTN News Kenya (2016-02-23), Kenyan Professor who helped transform London transportation, retrieved 2019-02-28
  14. Wekesa, Bob (2018-12-16). "Kenya: Are These the Most Recognisable, Celebrated Kenyans in Diaspora?". The Nation (Nairobi). Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  15. "Meet Professor Washington Yotto Ochieng Who Solved London's Traffic Crisis". kenyans.co.ke. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  16. Administrator, System (2002-11-22). "C is for Chaos". The Engineer. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  17. CHAMS Media Channel (2018-12-08), Prof. Washington Ochieng, London-based Kenyan Transport Systems Expert, retrieved 2019-02-28
  18. 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.
  19. "EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Civil Engineering". UKRI. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  20. 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. doi:10.1007/s10291-003-0069-z. ISSN 1521-1886. S2CID 12278847.
  21. 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.
  22. "Of the earth and the heavens: towards seamless positioning". imperial.ac.uk. Imperial College London. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  23. "Honours and Memberships - Professor Washington Y. Ochieng". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  24. "60 new Fellows elected to the Academy for 2013". RAEng. Retrieved 2019-02-28.



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