Jharrell was born and raised on Maui earning his B.S in Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He is currently pursuing his M.S. at the same university and has been working for HSFL since Spring 2025. His duties include developing/testing the avionics for the Artemis CubeSat Kit and the CubeSats for Climate Change Monitoring (C3M) mission. One
Chris is an Electrical Engineering master’s student at the University of Hawai’i. He works on the Artemis CubeSat Kit as a Systems Engineer. Chris helps develop electrical and mechanical hardware in our 1U CubeSat to ensure they are easy to use for end users of all skill levels. Chris’s current goals are to help bridge the gap in the aerospace
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,
Yosef is an Affiliate Faculty at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) and serves as the Operations Manager at HSFL. He grew up on Maui, and earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) in 2017. During his undergraduate studies, Yosef collaborated with HSFL on his Senior Design Capstone Project, which led
Miguel Nunes is an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) and Deputy Director of the Hawaiʻi Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL). Miguel received his Aerospace Engineering Degree from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, and his Masters and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Miguel has worked as an engineer for HSFL