People

Staff

Dr. James W. Cutler – Director

1320 Beal Ave.
3013 FXB Building
Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109
[email protected]
734.615.7238
734.763.0578

Dr. Cutler founded MXL in 2008 to develop novel flight vehicles for bold flight to the extremes. His research interests center on space systems–a multidisciplinary approach to enabling future space capability with particular emphasis on novel, nanosatellite missions. He studied at Purdue University and Stanford University. Prior to MXL, Dr. Cutler was director of the Space Systems Development Laboratory (SSDL) at Stanford.

Tran Anh Nguyen

Tran Anh Nguyen – Chief Engineer

[email protected]

Tran Anh is the Chief Engineer for MXL, as well as for the educational activities of the Space Institute.

Daniil Voloshin – Chief Data Scientist

Space Systems MSE
[email protected] LinkedIn

Daniil is the Chief Data Scientist for MXL. His research focuses include AI/ML applications in the space domain, and in big data analysis. He has done work ranging from novel computer vision techniques in space, to deorbit prediction analysis of space assets.

Students

John (Jack) Evans

Mechanical Engineering, MSE
[email protected]
LinkedIn

Jack is conducting research on mechanical systems within the space domain, especially gravity-gradient designs and systems for near-space (balloon venting) and space applications.

Ayush Pujara

Aero Engineering, BSE
[email protected]
LinkedIn

Ayush is conducting research on magnetometers, specifically UBSS methods of cleaning magnetometer data for use in attitude determination in space.
Blank headshot background

Shivani Sunil

Aerospace, MSE
[email protected]

Shivani works on Project STARI, specifically overseeing systems engineering tasks and designing CAD models for the mission.
Blank headshot background

Jacob Klingler

Robotics, MSE
[email protected]
LinkedIn

Jacob works on Project STARI, working on interferometery research and orbit formations of the mission.
Blank headshot background

Akshat Dubey

Aero, MSE
[email protected]
LinkedIn

AK is developing advanced simulations and architectures for the STARI mission.
Blank headshot background

Matthew Wang

Aero, BSE
[email protected]
LinkedIn

Matthew is developing advanced avionics for our StratoSats.


Alumni

A whole host of students have been MXLers during their time at the University of Michigan – they are listed below.

Adolfo Apolloni
Daniil Abramov
Duane Achterof
Chris Acosta
Tochukwu Amugo
Mari Battaglia
Dan Becker
Cameron Behar
Matt Bennett
Adam Bertrand
Ernesto Boanerges
Isha Bhatt
Jim Blanchard
Martin Brzozowski
Kaitlyn Burke
David Cardelli
Matthew Chase
Valerie Chen
Brad Cotten
Garrett Cullen
Allison Craddock
Luke DeGalan
Emanuela Della Bosca
Tatyana Dobreva
Kiko Dontchev
Jack Evans
William Fang
Sahil Farishta
Alex Fox

Alyssa Franken
Anton Frolnekov
Charles Galey
Ken Gmerek
Dan Gu
Dr. Eric Gustafson
Jillian Haas
Maia Herrington
Phillip Hargrove
Natalie Hazapis
Brandon Heidt
Tom Heine
Evan Hillgemann
Collin Hockey
Steve Howland
Robert Huddleston
Austin Huffman
Devin Hupp
So-hee Kang
Tatsuya Kano
Dr. Candice Kaplan
Dr. Ben Kempke
Andrew Kim
Dr. Andy Klesh
Noah Klugman
Paul Knudsen
Prince Kuevor
Yethinder R. L. Kumar

Jacob Kurtz
Charles Lacy
Dr. Dae Young Lee
Hung-Hsiang Liang
Joshua Liphshaw
Beldon Lin
Matt Lindner
Anny Lin
Jonathan Liou
Ted Lorts
James Lowe
Kathryn Luczek
Rebecca Martin
Lucas Mason
Rutvik Marathe
Caitlin Martinez
Joshua McCready
Nathan McKay
Terrance McKnight
Dan Meinzer
Duncan Miller
Griffin Miller
Travis Milstein
Mike Mistaleski
Ren Monroe
Ali Mosallaei
Alyson Mosher

Jin Xin Ng
Rupal Nigam
Ari Porter
Scott Perry
Jeffrey Poon
Andrew Plave
Harrison Price
Ethan Prober
Rohan Punnoose
Michael Ramirez
Anis Rehman
Tyler Rose
Beth Rosenbaum,
Fernando Saca
Sandro Salgueiro
Ariel Sandberg
Justin Schachter
TJ Schmitz
Dr. Srinagesh Sharma
Justin Shetty
Hrishi Shelar
Logan Sisca
Alex Sloboda
Dan Smith
Dr. Sara Spangelo
Dan Spatcher

Dr. John Springmann
Abby Stautberg
Casey Steuer
Diego Suazo De la Rosa
Josh Synowiec
Matthew Szczerba
Andrew Taylor
Aryanna Thompson
Samir Tripathy
K. Scott Tripp
Shikhar Verma
Jorge Vilchis
Andrew Wagonmaker
Dr. Alex Walsh
Angela Wang
Tammy Wang
Avishai Weiss
Josh Weiss
Adam Werries
Michael Wilson
Jacob Winnick
Andrew Wood
Amy Yang
Joe Yates
Cooper Young
Kimberly Zwolshen

(PS…if you’re missing on the list, oops! Let us know, please!)

(Images © The University of Michigan)