Kala’imoana Garcia
Undergraduate at UHM studying Aerospace Engineering.
2907, 2022
1909, 2020
Chris Amendola
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
2205, 2020
Frances Zhu
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,
0105, 2018
Eric Pilger
Eric received his B.A. in Astrophysics from Williams College in 1982. He then received an M.S. in Astronomy from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 1985, after which he went to work for the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility as a Systems Programmer. He transferred to the Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology in 1997, where he has worked since
1704, 2018
Yosef Ben Gershom
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
1704, 2018
Miguel Nunes
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
1704, 2018
Amber Imai-Hong
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 Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Amber was involved with a student-based SmallSat group for 3.5 years doing research and development with microprocessors