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.
Project Managers

Thomas Ganley
Project Manager

Katelyn Ball
Deputy Project Manager

Kinston Wong
Project Management Team Member
Admin Team

Elizabeth Chao
Admin Team Lead and Mechanical Team Member

Sareena Butt
Admin Deputy Lead

Kirk Zembal
Admin Team member

Sienna Cashion-Dextrase
Educational Outreach Lead

Vince Pantinople
Educational Outreach and Admin team Member

Zoe Dagenais
Education Outreach Team Member
Systems Team

Josh Lazaruk
Systems Team Lead and Onboard Computer Team Lead

Taryn Haluza-DeLay
Systems Team Lead

Erik Halliwell
Systems Team lead and Onboard Computer Member

Ethan Ledig
Mechancial and Systems Team Member
Northern SPIRIT Team

Abigail Hoover
northern SPIRIT systems team member

Adam Carscadden
Northern SPIRIT Systems team member
Technical Team Leads

Jayke Boghean
Communications Team Lead

Molly French
Mechanical Team Lead

Nina Yang
Deputy Mechanical Team Lead

Odessa Bauer
Mission Design and Science Team Lead and Onboard computer team member

Andre Ulliac
ADCS Team Lead and Mechanical Team Member

Elliot Saive
Iris Team Lead

Nick Sorensen
Power Team Lead and Deputy Systems Lead

Andrew Rooney
Software Team Lead
Technical Team Members

Adam Sundberg
ADCS Team Member

Patrick Li
Communications Team Member

Simranjeet Singh
Mechanical Team Member

Scott Selland
Mechanical Team Member

Nicolas Molina
Mechanical Team Member

Kirtan Dhunnoo
Mechanical Team Member

Malav Naik
Mechanical Team Member

Joshua Brown
Mechanical Team Member

Nikhil Velagapudi
Mission Design Team Member

Karim Valji
Mission Design and Embedded Systems and Onboard Computer Team Member

Ibrahim Elmallah
Iris Team Member

Robbie Evangelista
Iris Team Member

Alexander Epp
Iris Team Member

Liam Droog
Iris Team Member

Maher Dyayn
Power Team Member

Ian Yurychuck
Power Team Member

Ryan Li
Power Team Member

Shirley Wang
Power Team Member

Hannah Parry
Science Team Member

Farough Motamed
Software Team Member

Haoran Qi
Software Team Member

Evan Giese
Software Team Member

Punar Vasu Gupta
Software Team Member

Scott Chu
Software Team Member

Arash Yazdani
Software Team Member

Aniket Mishra
Software Team Member

Arancha Bebany
Payload Team Member
Faculty Advisors

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

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

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

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

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

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

Steven Knudsen
Industrial 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

Loren Wyard-Scott
Faculty Service Officer in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta

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

Amina Hussein
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer 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 put into AlbertaSat.

Callie Lissinna
Former Ex-Alta 2 Project Manager

Charles Nokes
Advisor and Ex-Alta 1 Project Manager

Collin Cupido
Ex-Alta 1 Systems Engineer

Christopher Robson
Ex-Alta 1 Mechanical Lead

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

Casia McLeod
Former Ex-Alta 2 Mechanical Lead

Logan Fairgrieve-Park
Former ADCS and Science Lead
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