People – MXL

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

Mari Battaglia

Aero Engineering BSE

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.

Ernesto Boanerges

Computer Eng MSE

Martin Brzozowski

Computer Eng BSE

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.

Yethinder Ragav Lakshmi Kumar

Aero Engineering MSE

Yethi works on developing and testing flight hardware for NASA JPL’s Far Side Seismic Suite.

Caitlin Martinez

Aero Engineering BSE

Ayush Pujara

Aero Engineering BSE

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.

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.

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
Cameron Behar
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
Prince Kuevor
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
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
Diego Suazo De la Rosa
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!)