2024 Distinguished Service Award

Presented to: Dr. Sherman Lo

Citation: For extraordinary service to The Institute of Navigation.

Dr. Sherman Lo has served as the president of the Institute of Navigation (ION) from January 2023 – January 2025. His term has been recognized for its efforts to reach students and to those in the early stages of their positioning, navigation, and timing careers. To this end, he has been credited with the expansion of existing student programs at the ITM/PTTI conference, the expansion of the Satellite Division’s juried Student Paper Competition, as well as lending his support and expertise to ION’s pre-existing international student outreach programs.

Additional outreach efforts included on-going growth in the ION’s International GNSS Day campaign, which began in 2022 but gained international popularity during his term. These efforts have been augmented by the growth in the ION’s social media engagement during his term.

Dr. Lo has been actively involved in ION since 1997. He has been a program and general chair of the ION GNSS+ and Pacific PNT meetings, and served on ION Council in numerous capacities before becoming president. Dr. Lo is a past recipient of the ION’s Early Achievement Award (2004) and is an ION Fellow (2023).