The Who’s Who of PSCR 2022

The Who’s Who of PSCR 2022

Join the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Public Safety Communications Research Division (PSCR) for their Annual Public Safety Broadband Meeting in San Diego from June 7-9! This is your chance to meet the researchers behind the publications and innovations that pull the future of public safety telecommunications forward. To learn more about a few  of the PSCR researchers attending the conference this year, explore their profiles below. Check out their staff spotlights for more about their individual work and how they’re impacting the public safety communications landscape.


Sarah Hughes, Prize Competition and Challenge Specialist



Sarah Hughes is a Prize Competition and Challenge Specialist for PSCR’s Open Innovation Team and also works extensively on the program’s commercialization efforts. At this year’s conference, Sarah will participate in multiple plenary sessions, including the PULSE Accelerator: Public Safety Technology Feedback Pitch and Merging Next Gen Tech for Incident Command Dashboards. She will also join the Public Safety Panel: Communicating Our Needs and Collaborating with Innovators discussion. Finally, she will facilitate the Advancing Tech Together: Peak Response’s Partnership with the San Francisco Fire Department fireside chat.

Joe Grasso, Location-Based Services Portfolio Lead



Credit: NIST


Joe Grasso is PSCR’s Location-Based Services (LBS) Portfolio Lead and also collaborates extensively with the User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) portfolio at the Public Safety Immersive Test Center in Boulder, Colorado. At this year’s conference, be sure to catch Joe at the various sessions he is participating in, including a panel discussion on Public Safety Research for Immersive Simulations and Measurements. Joe will also moderate the campfire session What’s Next for the LBS Portfolio? Check out the technology demonstrations he’s hosting, Augmented Reality Tracking Visualization and Lidar Scans for Public Safet ..

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