Daniele Mortari is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University who works with attitude and position estimation, satellite constellation design, sensor data processing, and various topics in linear algebra and numerical algorithms. He has taught at the Aerospace Engineering School of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and has taught Electronic Engineering at the University of Perugia. In 1982, he received his doctorate degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Rome. He has been widely recognized for his work, including receiving the Best Paper Award from AAS/AIAA Conference from Journal Mathematics, three NASA’s Group Achievement Awards, the 2007 IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award, and the 2016 AAS Dirk Brouwer Award. He has published 1 book, 128 journal articles, and 255 conference papers and has delivered 113 invited seminars. He is a Member of the International Academy of Astronautics, IEEE, and AAIA, and is an AAS Fellow, AIAA Associate Fellow, Honorary Member of the IEEE-AESS Space System Technical Panel, and former IEEE Distinguish Speaker. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Functional Interpolation” in the Journal Mathematics.