Student Team

 

ELFIN Student team as of June 2024

 
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Current Team

Dr. Ethan Tsai, Project Manager

ADCS-DEV Team

James Shiffer, lead

Sophie Ye

Annie Liu

Saim Ahmad

Derek Lee

GNC Team

Sophie Ye, lead

James Tseng

Maxine Wu

Robert Lee

Flight Software Team

Aiden Szeto, lead

Emily Liang

James Shiffer

Naomi Weiss

Ramsey Boyce

Sean Tang

Mechanical Team

Alissa Tong

Axel Della Porta

Bennett Ji

Camila Gomez

Isabella He

Jonathan Tam

Katrina Le

TVAC Team

Alissa Tong

Axel Della Porta

Niklas Leet

Alex McDermott

Support/Infrastructure Team

Pranav Kesani

Post Launch Alumni

Spacecraft Operators

Alexandra Roosnovo

Andrew Evans

Chen Yap

Erica Xie

Ian Fox

Kelly Nguyen

Louise Tamondong

Michelle Nguyen

Sidh Sikka

Suyash Kumar

Software Developers

Abhigya Sodani

Akhil Palla

Alex Chen

Chanel Young

Daniel Liu

Daniel Schwartz

Hanna Kotesova

Jason Mao

Jessica Cheng

Jefferson Lee

Jonathan Davies

Kai Tota

Nick Simone

Rishi Sankar

Uma Patil

Sharvani Jha

ADCS team

Graham Wing

James Tseng

Ground station team

Andrew Braun

Kanan Schmid

Harry Diao

Eric Lazbin

Science Processing Team

Matt Nuesca

James King

Science Team

Wynne Turner

Laura Iglesias

Alexa Roosnovo


Subsystem Leads at Delivery/Launch

 

Project Manager:

  • Ethan Tsai ~ Electrical Engineering, Physics

Lead Systems Engineer: 

  • Duncan Frederick ~ Physics

Lead Software Engineer:

  • Akhil Palla ~ Computer Science

Lead Mechanical Engineer:

  • Matthew Allen ~ Aerospace Engineering

Lead Electrical Engineer:

  • Donna Branchevsky ~ Electrical Engineering

Payload Lead:

  • Colin Wilkins ~ Space Physics, Electrical Engineering Computer Sciences

Mission Operations Lead:

  • Sidh Sikka ~ Astrophysics

Fabrication Lead:

  • Jessica Artinger ~ Astrophysics

ADCS Lead:

  • Graham Wing ~ Computer Science

Earth Station Lead:

  • Alex Gonzalez ~ Physics

Thermal Lead:

  • Ian Fox ~ Aerospace Engineering

PR and Outreach Lead:

  • Elisa Park ~ Economics

Some prelaunch alumni by subsystem

 

ADCS

  • Kevin Lian ~ Aerospace Engineering

  • Spencer Burakowski ~ Mechanical Engineering

 


C&DH

  • Jordan Miller ~ Computer Science

  • Carter Pedersen ~ Computer Science

  • Jason Less ~ Computer Science

  • Anjali Pemmaraju ~ Computer Science

  • Akhil Palla ~ Computer Science


Comm/ESN

  • Andrew Braun ~ Electrical Engineering

  • Benjamin Domae ~ Electrical Engineering

  • Alex Gilbert ~ Electrical Engineering

  • Alex Gonzalez ~ Physics

  • Marvin Paparisto ~ Electrical Engineering

  • Micah Cliffe ~ Electrical Engineering

  • Michael Arreola-Zamora ~ Geology


Electrical

  • Cian Costello Electrical Engineering

  • Donna Branchevsky ~ Electrical Engineering

  • Mason Fordham Electrical Engineering


Fabrication

  • David SheltonMechanical Engineering

  • Reuben RozarioAerospace Engineering

  • Matt WasdenMechanical Engineering


Mechanical

  • Alex Flemming ~ Aerospace Engineering

  • Eric Qu Aerospace Engineering

  • Daniel ThomlinsonMechanical Engineering


Mission OPS

  • Alexei BendeburyElectrical Engineering

  • Rommel CastroComputer Science

  • Andrew EvansAerospace Engineering

  • Koji KusumiComputer Science

  • Jason MaoComputer Science

  • Austin NorrisPhysics

  • Louise Tamondong ~ Physics

  • Anirudh VeeraragavanComputer Science


Payload

  • Rommel CastroComputer Science

  • Matthew NuescaComputer Science

  • Aysen TanElectrical Engineering

  • Gary ZhangElectrical Engineering


Power

  • Sarah Eldin ~ Electrical Engineering


Systems

  • Noah Kang ~ Aerospace Engineering

  • Matthew Rubly ~ Mechanical Engineering


Technician

  • Brayden Hesford Electrical Engineering


Thermal

  • Renee KriegerMaterials Science

  • Austin VillegasPhysics


Group Photos

ELFIN Team June 2023

ELFIN team Nov 2021

ELFIN Team June 2022

ELFIN Team after Pre-Ship Review, June 2018

ELFIN Team after Pre-Ship Review, June 2018

ELFIN Team believes...Spring 2015

ELFIN Team believes...Spring 2015

ELFIN Team after Critical Design Review, February 2016

ELFIN Team after Critical Design Review, February 2016

ELFIN team Nov 2014

ELFIN team Nov 2014

The first wave of new recruits join ELFIN in Fall 2014!

The first wave of new recruits join ELFIN in Fall 2014!