Our Members
Neil Armstrong didn’t get to the moon alone – he had a dedicated team to manage every aspect of Apollo 11. AlbertaSat is no different, so here is our stellar line-up.
AlbertaSat just keeps growing: every year we have new members joining. Now with over 100 active members, spreading out the thousands of hours required to create a satellite has never been more important.
No previous experience or technical knowledge is required to join. We have students from many faculties – not just engineering and science – and are always looking to expand our team and bring people on board. Interested in joining? Fill out the google form at the link below!
Please note: we are a volunteer-based student project group.
Program/Project Management
Team Leads

Joanne Cai
Systems Team Lead

Pundeep Hundal
Deputy Systems Team Lead

Hariharan Krishnan
Communications Team Lead

Yeh-In Kang
Iris Electrical Team Lead

Dipesh Aggarwal
IRIS Mechanical Team Mechanical Lead

Tyler Stocking
CUBICS Mechanical Team Lead

Priya Grewal
Power Team Lead

John Mabanta
Ground Station Software Team Lead

Sally Palmers
Mission Design Team Lead

Devin Headrick
CUBICS Software Team Lead

Connor McNeill
SpiderSat Co-Lead

Lauren Dara
SpiderSat Co-Lead
Non-Technical Team Leads

Zoe Dagenais
Program Coordinator

Emily Nguyen
Non-Technical Coordinator

JD Carlson
Non-Technical Coordinator and Finance Team Lead

Aaron Berhane
Educational Outreach Coordinator

Kelsey Truran
Outreach Coordinator

Jessica Pham
External Coordinator

Miguel Deanon
Internal Coordinator
CUBICS Mechanical Team

Harvind Arumugam
Mechanical Member

Ben Harbarenko
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
Finance Team

Jaiden Edwardsen
Finance Member

William Huynh
Finance 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

Jayke Boghean
Former Communications Team Lead

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

Liam Droog
Former Iris Team Lead

Brandon Hodge
Northern SPIRIT team Lead

Stefan Damkjar
Systems Team Member

Karim Valji
Communications Team Member

Alex Leaf
Mechanical Team Member

Adam Sundberg
ADCS Team Member

Adam Carscadden
Northern SPIRIT team member

Grace Yi
Software Team Member

Ethan Ledig
Mechancial and Systems Team Member

Collin Cupido
Ex-Alta 1 Systems Engineer

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

Erik Halliwell
Former Systems, Power, and Embedded Systems Team Member

Malav Naik
Former Mechanical Team Member
