INCOSE LatAm: Webinar 15 - Systems Engineering Challenges of the ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade
INCOSE LatAm Webinar 15 - Systems Engineering Challenges of the ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade
Date: 21 January 2025
Time: 1:00 PM (ARG)
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The ALMA Observatory has been in operation for over 10 years since March 2013. From its inception, the development program was an integral part of the observatory, which led to the creation of the ALMA 2030 roadmap. The first milestone is the Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU), an ambitious program to upgrade the signal chain, to be carried out while the telescope continues operating. In this talk, we will look at what ALMA is, how it was built, what the WSU entails, and the systems engineering challenges it presents. Speaker: Juande Santander-Vela Juande Santander-Vela is the Systems Development Engineer at the ALMA Observatory (Joint ALMA Observatory, JAO). Since June 2022, he has been managing systems engineering activities related to the ALMA 2030 roadmap in general and the Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU) in particular. An Electronics Engineer by training, specializing in digital signal processing, he has academic and industry experience in software development management and systems engineering. He completed his PhD on how to bring radio-astronomy data and tools to the Virtual Observatory (VO) at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC). His first postdoctoral position was at the European Southern Observatory (ESO), where, as an Applied Scientist, he was responsible for the quality of metadata and the VO interfaces of the ESO archive. Later, he was assigned to the initial delivery of the ALMA archive query tool, launched in October 2011. He returned to IAA-CSIC as the project manager of VIA-SKA and as a collaborator in the development of Astro Taverna. In March 2014, he joined the SKA Organization, initially serving as Systems Engineer for the Telescope Manager (control and observation management system) and the Science Data Processor (data reduction and early processing) of the SKA telescopes. He later oversaw all software systems. He took a career break to work for the Chilean government as a project scientist/engineer for the Data Observatory. He then returned to the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) as Head of Software Product Management, responsible for the functionalities that development teams needed to implement
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