Meet the SMART Team
UCLA Team
Peter Chi
Principal Investigator
Christopher Russell
Co-Investigator
Tahlia Garcia
Project Manager
Matlide Abreu
Education & Public Outreach Lead
Felipe Andrade
Hardware Lead
Evan French
Hardware Engineer
Elona Khoshaba
Hardware Engineer
Gene Kung
Software Engineer
Ryan Pham
GMAG Lead
Justin Sheu
Software Lead
Ryan Teoh
Software Engineer
Anbu Vajuravel
GMAG/Hardware
Mikaela van de Heetkamp
Solar Eclipse Campaign Lead
Cris Velazquez
Software Engineer
Michelle Wang
Data Analysis Lead
Jonathan Pan
High School Volunteer (Palo Alto Gunn High School)
Collaborators
Brian Anderson (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
Bing Chen (University of Nebraska)
Jerry Goldstein (Southwest Research Institute)
William Jensen (Emporia University)
Noel Petit (Augsburg University)
Paul Seifert (Minnesota West College)
Kazue Takahashi (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
Linda Winkler (Minnesota West Community & Technical College)
Former Team Members (UCLA)
Alan Michael (Computer Science)
Eric Broman ('22 Aerospace Engineering)
Eden Zafran ('22 Aerospace Engineering; Project Manager)
Brandon Zhao ('22 Data Science & Economics)
Gavin Wong (Computer Science)
Peggy Li ('21 Physics; Project Manager)
Alexa Roosnovo ('21 Astrophysics)
Matthew Yoshida ('21 Applied Math)
Erin Flores ('20 Astrophysics)
Taylor Lonner ('20 Earth Planetary & Space Sciences)
Joseph Merrill ('20 Physics)
William Greer
Mike Lawson
Pier Muti
Kyle Stewart