Frances Zhu

Christine Uehara/ May 22, 2020/

Frances Zhu earned her B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca in 2014 and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell in 2019. Dr. Zhu was a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow. Since 2020, she has been an assistant research professor with the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology at University of Hawaii, specializing in machine learning,

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Eric Pilger

Kara Tanaka/ May 1, 2018/

Yosef Ben Gershom

Kara Tanaka/ April 17, 2018/

Yosef received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2017. He worked with HSFL for his Senior Design Capstone Project and was hired as an engineer after graduation. Yosef supported the integration and testing for the Neutron-1 3U CubeSat development, and performs project management for the HyTI 6U CubeSat. He received an EBMA from

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Miguel Nunes

Kara Tanaka/ April 17, 2018/

Miguel Nunes received his Aerospace Engineering Degree form the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, and worked on his Masters and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His research is focused on small satellites technology with special focus on Multi-Agent Robotic Systems and Guidance, Navigation and Control. Miguel is the main leads for the research and

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Amber Imai-Hong

Kara Tanaka/ April 17, 2018/

Amber Imai-Hong has been working for the Hawai`i Space Flight Laboratory as an Avionics Engineer and Outreach Specialist since 2012, and was a student assistant since 2008. While earning her Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Amber was involved with a student-based SmallSat group for 3.5 years doing research and development with microprocessors

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