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Principal Investigator Christoph Baranec (U. Hawai’i)
Software Guru Reed Riddle (Caltech)
Project Manager Rachel Rampy (U. Hawai’i)

 

Technical team

Christoph Baranec Reed Riddle
Rachel Rampy James Ou
Suzanne Zhang Luke McKay
Morgan Bonnet Iven Hamilton
Greg Ching Jessica Young
Maïssa Salama Paul Barnes
Shane Jacobson Peter Onaka

 

Students

Graduate Zachary Werber (U. Hawai’i)*
Ruihan (Suzanne) Zhang (U. Hawai’i)*
James Ou (U. Hawai’i)*
Ward Howard (UNC Chapel Hill)
Jessica Stasik (U. Hawai’i)
Maïssa Salama (U. Hawai’i)
Rebecca Jensen-Clem (Caltech)
Dani Atkinson (U. Hawai’i)
Carl Ziegler (UNC Chapel Hill)
Rachel Bowens-Rubin (U. Hawai’i)
Larissa Nofi (U. Hawai’i)
Amy Ray (Mississippi State)
Gina Duggan (Caltech)
Avinash Surendran (IUCAA)
Kristina Hogstrom (Caltech)
Shriharsh Tendulkar (Caltech)
Undergraduate Kyla Lee (UH Manoa ’26)
Ryan Michaud (CSU Chico ’23)
Madelyn Latiolais (SFASU ’23)
Ryan Liu (UH Hilo ’24)
Dason Albano (UH Hilo ’23)
Victoria Catlett (UT Dallas ’22)
Stacey Yanagihara (UH Hilo ’20)
Heather Situ (U. Hawaii ’19)
Claire Lamman (Univ. of Colorado ’19)
Jaren Ashcraft (Univ. of Rochester ’19)
Jessica Schonhut (Open University ’17)
Celia Zhang (Caltech ’18)
Bianca Avalani (Caltech ’17)
Rachel Thorp (Caltech ’16)
Chatarin “Mee” Wong-u-railertkun (Caltech ’14)
Dan Filler (Univ. of Utah ’13)
Corinne Vassallo (Carnegie Mellon ’13)
Victoria “Ashley” Villar (MIT ’14)
Athanasios Papadopoulos (Aristotle U., Thessaloniki ’13)
Ankit Arya (Mississippi State ’12)
Alexander Rudy (Pomona ’11)
Marland Sitt (Caltech ’11)
High School Alexandria Hamilton (Hawaii Preparatory Academy ’22)
Corbin Warmbier (Hilo High ’20)

(* students currently active on the project)

The Robo-AO Kitt Peak Team (2015-2018)

Principal Investigator Shri Kulkarni (Caltech)
Project Scientist Reed Riddle (Caltech)
Data Scientist Dmitry Duev (Caltech)
Robo-AO PI/Inst. Scientist Christoph Baranec (U. Hawai’i)
Robo-AO PS Nicholas Law (UNC Chapel Hill)

 

Science team

Shri Kulkarni Christoph Baranec
Nicholas Law Reed Riddle
Rebecca Jensen-Clem Dmitry Duev
Maïssa Salama

 

Technical team

Christoph Baranec Reed Riddle
Rebecca Jensen-Clem Dmitry Duev
Nicholas Law Michael Feeney
Morgan Bonnet Maïssa Salama

 

Observing team

Amy Ray Megan Nieberding
Mark Trueblood Urszula Szafruga

 

The Robo-AO Palomar Team (2009-2015)

Principal Investigator Christoph Baranec (U. Hawai’i)
Project Scientist Nicholas Law (UNC Chapel Hill)
Co-Investigator A. N. Ramaprakash (IUCAA)
Software Lead Reed Riddle (Caltech)

 

Science team

Christoph Baranec Richard Dekany
John Johnson Mansi Kasliwal
Shri Kulkarni Nicholas Law
Timothy Morton Eran Ofek
A. N. Ramaprakash Reed Riddle
Shriharsh Tendulkar Lynne Hillenbrand
Sergi Hildebrandt Gregg Hallinan
Michał Drahus Leon Harding

 

Technical team

Christoph Baranec Khanh Bui
Mahesh Burse Pravin Chordia
Hillol Das Jack Davis
Ernest Croner Richard Dekany
Jason Fucik Nicholas Law
Sujit Punnadi A. N. Ramaprakash
Reed Riddle Roger Smith
Shriharsh Tendulkar Jeff Zolkower
Kristina Hogstrom Dani Atkinson
Gina Duggan Avinash Surendran

 

Original CAMERA concept and testbed team

Matthew Britton Nicholas Law
Viswa Velur Lothar Ratschbacher (U. of Vienna ’08)
Dan Beeler (Pomona ’09) Wojciech Makowiecki (Jagiellonian U. ’08)
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