Staff
Dr. James W. Cutler – Director
1320 Beal Ave.
3013 FXB Building
Ann Arbor, Mich. 48109
jwcutler@umich.edu
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 – Chief Engineer
nguyenta@umich.edu
Tran Anh is the Chief Engineer for MXL, as well as for the educational activities of the Space Institute.
Students
Cameron Behar
Space Engineering MEng
Cameron is an operations and systems engineer at MXL. He currently works on ground station dev and general management of the lab.
Gage Bergman
Space Engineering MEng
Gage helps operate spacecraft using the MXL ground station and is a grad student instructor for the CubeSat Flight Lab course.
Adam Bertrand
Aero Engineering BSE
Adam is part of Project Strato at MXL, and works on developing hardware for autonomous delivery of balloon-mounted payload.
Maia Herrington
Computer Eng BSE
Maia works on MARIO – our most recent space craft – operations. She also contributes to other ops projects and general lab management.
Tatsuya Kano
Aero Engineering MSE
Tatsuya is working on developing and testing flight hardware for NASA JPL’s Far Side Seismic Suite.
Prince Kuevor
Robotics PhD
Prince works in the robotics department on novel spatial mapping and navigation through the use of drones and magnetometers.
Yethinder Ragav Lakshmi Kumar
Aero Engineering MSE
Yethi works on developing and testing flight hardware for NASA JPL’s Far Side Seismic Suite.
Raymond Liu
Electr & Comp Eng MSE
Raymond is working on developing and testing software for NASA JPL’s Far Side Seismic Suite.
Ritwik Majumdar
Aero Engineering BSE
Ritwik is part of the Operations team for MXL, which works on supporting craft communications, missions, and flights.
Rutvik Marathe
Aero Engineering BSE
Rutvik is part of Project Strato at MXL, and works on software development for autonomous delivery of balloon-mounted payload.
Christian Novy
Computer Eng BSE
Christian is part of the Operations team for MXL, which works on supporting craft communications, missions, and flights.
Anis Rehman
Aero Engineering BSE
Anis is a part of the Operations team in MXL, and works on formulating a health assessment protocol for spacecrafts on orbit.
Jacob Stollman
Aero Engineering BSE
Jake is part of Project Strato at MXL, and works on developing hardware for autonomous delivery of balloon-mounted payload.
Diego Suazo
De la Rosa
Aero Engineering BSE
Diego is the PM for Project Strato, as well as the Recruitment Lead for MXL and helps with general lab management.
Aryanna Thompson
Aero Engineering BSE
Aryanna is part of Project Strato at MXL, and works on developing hardware for balloon-mounted payloads.
Samir Tripathy
Aero Engineering BSE
Samir is part of Project Strato at MXL, and works on developing hardware for autonomous delivery of balloon-mounted payload.
Shikhar Verma
Aero Eng BSE &
Computer Eng BSE
Shikhar is part of Project Strato at MXL, and works on software development for autonomous delivery of payload.
Angela Wang
Aero Engineering MSE &
Electr & Comp Eng MSE
Angela is the Operations Lead for MXL, develops software and automation tools for ops, and works on the radio for FSS.
Shun-Yu Yang
Space Engineering MEng
Shun-Yu is part of Project Strato at MXL, and works on developing a flight termination unit for balloon-mounted payload.
Kimberly Zwolshen
Aero Engineering BSE
Kim is part of the Operations team in MXL, where she mainly works on projects that focus on ground station development.
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
Dan Becker
Matt Bennett
Isha Bhatt
Jim Blanchard
Kaitlyn Burke
David Cardelli
Matthew Chase
Valerie Chen
Brad Cotten
Garrett Cullen
Allison Craddock
Luke DeGalan
Emanuela Della Bosca
Tatyana Dobreva
Kiko Dontchev
William Fang
Sahil Farishta
Alex Fox
Alyssa Franken
Anton Frolnekov
Charles Galey
Ken Gmerek
Dan Gu
Dr. Eric Gustafson
Jillian Haas
Phillip Hargrove
Brandon Heidt
Tom Heine
Evan Hillgemann
Collin Hockey
Steve Howland
Robert Huddleston
Austin Huffman
Devin Hupp
So-hee Kang
Dr. Candice Kaplan
Dr. Ben Kempke
Dr. Andy Klesh
Noah Klugman
Paul Knudsen
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
Joshua McCready
Nathan McKay
Terrance McKnight
Dan Meinzer
Duncan Miller
Griffin Miller
Travis Milstein
Mike Mistaleski
Ren Monroe
Alyson Mosher
Jin Xin Ng
Rupal Nigam
Ari Porter
Scott Perry
Jeffrey Poon
Andrew Plave
Harrison Price
Ethan Prober
Rohan Punnoose
Michael Ramirez
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
Josh Synowiec
Matthew Szczerba
Andrew Taylor
K. Scott Tripp
Jorge Vilchis
Andrew Wagonmaker
Dr. Alex Walsh
Tammy Wang
Avishai Weiss
Josh Weiss
Adam Werries
Michael Wilson
Jacob Winnick
Andrew Wood
Amy Yang
Joe Yates
Cooper Young
(PS…if you’re missing on the list, oops! Let us know, please!)
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