Meet our Team

A&A CubeSat Team

The students of AACT

Faculty Advisors

Alvar
Saenz Otero
Mehran
Mesbahi

Student Leadership

Qishi 'Jackson'
Zhou

Project Manager

Michal
Kozubczyk

Ground Station Lead

Mikhail
Mazukabzov

Flight Operations

Derek
Stritzinger

Project Scientist

William
Pope

Controls

Henry
Brown

Structures

Anika
Dighde

Communications

Gordon
McCulloh

Power Systems

Jay
Lee

Flight Software

Cameron
Wutzke

Imaging

Join our discord channel Here! , in the discord channel there are additional resources in the welcome channel. If you have a question, please feel free to email us at aact@uw.edu.

Past Subsystem Leads

We're very proud to brag about some of the students that have worked with us in the past! Many of these students have gone on to jobs in the space industry, grad school, and beyond, taking their AACT experience with them.

  • Charlie Norgaard ( MCC team lead&project co-lead, 2019-2023)
  • Henry Brown (Project lead, 2021-2022), Blue Origin
  • Charlie Kelly (Project manager, 2018-2021), SpaceX
  • Billy Lin (CDH, 2020-21), UC Berkeley
  • Taylor Reynolds (Project Scientist, 2018-21), Amazon Prime Air
  • Gorkem Caylak (CDH, 2020-21)
  • William Pope (GNC, 2020-21), University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Amy Shyu (IMG, 2019-20)
  • James Rosenthal (Advisor, 2018-21), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
  • Garrett Giddings (EPS, 2020-21), Sandia National Labs
  • Jon Casamayor (CDH, Onboard Computer, 2019-21), Lockheed Martin
  • Arnela Grebovic (STC, 2018-20), Blue Origin
  • Cole Morgan (GNC, 2018-20), SpaceX
  • Devan Tormey (GNC, 2018-20), Blue Origin
  • Jerrold Erickson (EPS, 2018-20)
  • Ellory Freneau (Communications, 2018-20)
  • Sheershak Agarwal (CDH, 2018-19)
  • Haomin Yu (Imaging, 2018)