Our Members

Program/Project Management

Thomas Ganley

Program Manager

Nikhil Velagapudi

Program Manager, Operations Director

Priya Manavalan

CUBICS Project Manager and Balloon Mission Team Lead

Hariharan Krishnan

BIRDS-X Project Manager, Deputy Operations Director

Connor McNeill

SpiderSat Co-Project Manager

Lauren Dara

SpiderSat Co-Project Manager

Team Leads

Joanne Cai

Systems Team Lead

Pundeep Hundal

Deputy Systems Team Lead

Tyler Stocking

Mechanical Team Lead

Priya Grewal

Power Team Lead

Yeh-In Kang

Iris Electrical Team Lead

Dipesh Aggarwal

IRIS Mechanical Team Lead

Sally Palmers

Mission Design Team Lead

Devin Headrick

Software Team Lead

Ryan Bererton

ADCS Team Lead

Ben Harbarenko

Deputy Mechanical Team Lead

Non-Technical Team Leads

Emily Nguyen

Non-Technical Coordinator

Kelsey Truran

Outreach Coordinator

Aaron Berhane

Educational Outreach Coordinator

Jessica Pham

External Coordinator

Miguel Deanon

Internal Co-Coordinator

Julia Redinger

Internal Co-Coordinator

JD Carlson

Internal Co-Coordinator (FINANCE)

CUBICS Mechanical Team

Harvind Arumugam

Mechanical Member

Katrina Hamdon

Mechanical Member

Mission Design Team

Keeya Beausoleil

Mission Design Member

Christian Chenard

Mission Design Member

OBC/Embedded Software Team

Isaac Joffe

Software Member

Rachit Anugula

Software Member

Daniel Sacro

Software Member

SpiderSat Team

Spencer Leaf

SpiderSat Mechanical Lead

Saksham Verma

SpiderSat Net Lead

Priyanka Goradia

SpiderSat Software Lead

Abegail Gagelonia

SpiderSat Outreach/Net Development Member

Ekjot Brar

SpiderSat Outreach/Net Development Member

Nabiha Saghar

SpiderSat Net Development and Outreach Member

Tom Cundict

SpiderSat Systems Team Member

Faculty Advisors

Michael Lipsett

Co-Investigator and AlbertaSat Steering Group Chair

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta and Ernest & Gertrude Poole Chair in Management for Engineers

Steven Knudsen

Principal Investigator and AlbertaSat Steering Group Member (Northern SPIRIT)

Industrial Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta

Ian Mann

Co-Investigator and AlbertaSat Steering Group Member

Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Space Physics

Charles Nokes

Project Coordinator and Ex-Alta 1 Project Manager

Engineering Physics Graduate

Michael Fleischauer

Co-Investigator

Associate Research Officer at NRC-Nanotechnology Research Centre and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Alberta

Dan Sameoto

Co-Investigator

Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta

Loren Wyard-Scott

Co-Investigator

Faculty Service Officer in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta

Carlos Lange

Principal Investigator (CUBICS) and AlbertaSat Steering Group Member

Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta

Ronald Unrau

Consultant

Bruce Cockburn

Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta

Jie Han

Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta

Amina Hussein

Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta

Leonid Olifer

Balloon Mission Advisor

Research Assistant

Zahra Samadikhoshkho

Academic Advisor

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta

Past Members

Though no longer contributing directly to our projects, we’re forever thankful for the work these legends have put into AlbertaSat.

Katelyn Ball

Former Deputy Project Manager

Abigail Hoover

Former Deputy Project Manager

Elizabeth Chao

former Admin Team Lead and Iris Team Member

Emily Seto

former Admin Deputy Team Lead and Iris Team Member

Josh Lazaruk

former Systems and Onboard Computer Team Lead

Zoe Dagenais

Former Non-Technical Manager

Andre Ulliac

ADCS Team Lead and Northern SPIRIT Team Member

Nina Yang

Former Mechanical Team Co-Lead

Sichun Xu

Former Mechanical Team Co-Lead

Odessa Bauer

Former Onboard computer Deputy team Lead

Robert Taylor

Former Software Team Lead

Jayke Boghean

Former Communications Team Lead

Liam Droog

Former Iris Team Lead

Brandon Hodge

Northern SPIRIT team Lead

Stefan Damkjar

Systems Team Member

Alex Leaf

Mechanical Team Member

Adam Sundberg

ADCS Team Member

Adam Carscadden

Northern SPIRIT team member

Grace Yi

Software Team Member

Karim Valji

Communications Team Member

Ethan Ledig

Mechancial and Systems Team Member

Callie Lissinna

Former Ex-Alta 2 Project Manager

Corbin Cooper

Advisor and Former Ex-Alta 2 Deputy Project Manager

Tyler Hrynyk

Advisor and Former Ex-Alta 2 Project Manager

Kristen Cote

Ex-Alta 1 Mechanical team member

Christopher Robson

Ex-Alta 1 Mechanical Lead

Logan Fairgrieve-Park

Former ADCS and Science Lead

Casia McLeod

Former Ex-Alta 2 Mechanical Lead

Taryn Haluza-DeLay

Former Ex-Alta 2 Systems Engineering Team Lead

Kirtan Dhunnoo

Ex-Alta 2 Mechanical Team Member

Jari Swanson

Former Ex-Alta 2 Payload Deputy Team Lead

Arash Yazdani

Former Ex-Alta 2 Software Team Member

Sareena Butt

Former Ex-Alta 2 Admin Deputy Lead

Molly French

Former Ex-Alta 2 Mechanical Team Lead

Andrew Rooney

Former Ex-Alta 2 Software Team Lead

Elliot Saive

Former Iris Team Lead

Hannah Parry

Former Ex-Alta 2 Science Team Member

Vince Pantinople

Former Educational Outreach and Admin team Member

Ryan Kortbeek

Former Ground Station Software Team Lead

Nick Sorensen

Former Deputy Systems Team Lead and Power Team Lead

Collin Cupido

Ex-Alta 1 Systems Engineer

Erik Halliwell

Former Systems, Power, and Embedded Systems Team Member

Malav Naik

Former Mechanical Team Member

Oliver Boodram

Mission Design Team Member