AUTONOMY - Key Persons


Aaron Rosengren

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego Member
Dr. Rosengren received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2014. He served as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow for the European Union Asteroid and Space Debris Network, Stardust, from 2014 to 2016, at the Institute of Applied Physics Nello Carrara of the Italian National Research Council. In 2017, Dr. Rosengren worked at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece in the Department of...

Abbie Morton


Alaa Ahmed

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Alan Rubin

Job Titles:
  • Principal

Alessandro Roncone

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Alex Steele

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Advertising, Public Relations
  • Product Designer
Alex Steele is a product designer focused on interaction design, user research and experiences that drive human positive impact. Her industry experience ranges from serving as a creative director in the nonprofit space, designing in higher education, and as a product designer in the health and wellness industry. At CrossFit, her work focuses on designing experiences for web and mobile applications used by millions in the global CrossFit community. As a graduate of the Strategic Communication Design program, Steele is passionate about mentoring and teaching future designers the foundations of human-centered design and the impact it has on our world. She believes design is one of the most powerful tools used in society today and can be used to solve key problems, drive positive behaviors and be used for good.

Alexandra (Sasha) Nova

Job Titles:
  • Master

Alexandra Le Moine

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Alireza Doostan

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Allie Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Alma Zavala

Job Titles:
  • HR Coordinator

Amanda J. McManus

Job Titles:
  • Interactive Media Coordinator

America Palacios

Job Titles:
  • Financial Services Manager

Amy Jones

Job Titles:
  • Philanthropist

Ana Finchum

Job Titles:
  • Financial Services Professional

Andrew Baker

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Advertising, Public Relations

Andrew Borham

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor ( Last Names

Annie Hergenrader

Job Titles:
  • Events Coordinator

Antonia Cisternas

Job Titles:
  • Master

Ashutosh Trivedi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Betsy Mulet

Job Titles:
  • Professional Assistant ( Media Studies the Center for Media, Religion and Culture )

Bevin Gumm

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advising Professional

Bill Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Space Intelligence
Vice President, Space Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Raytheon Intelligence and Space William "Bill" Sullivan is vice president of Space Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance for Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies business. He assumed the position in 2021 and is responsible for a $1.7B ground portfolio across multiple customers and domains. Previously, Sullivan was vice president of the Global Positioning System Next-Generation Operational Control System program from 2015 through 2020...

Bill Weston

Job Titles:
  • Space and Communications Group, the Boeing Company

Bob Canty

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Constellation Management and Protection, Raytheon Intelligence & Space

Bobby Hodgkinson

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Bonnie Dunbar

John and Bea Slattery Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Dr. Dunbar is a retired NASA astronaut, engineer and educator, currently with Texas A&M Engineering as a Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) John and Bea Slattery Chair in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. Dunbar, who is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, came to Texas A&M from the University of Houston where...

Bor-Yuh Evan Chang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Bradley Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Brandi Bradshaw Reyes

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director
  • Assistant Director for Advising, Internships, and Student Professional Development
Brandi Bradshaw Reyes is the assistant director for advising, internships and student professional development. She started working at CU Boulder in 2017 as a first-year advisor in the College of Arts & Sciences. After a short hiatus, she is very excited to be back on campus at CMCI!

Brett Robbs

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Emeritus / Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design

Brian Argrow

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor Glenn Murphy Endowed Chair Director of IRISS National Academy Member
  • Professor

Bridget Barrett

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Brizida Magro

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Advertising, Public Relations

Brock Mays

Job Titles:
  • Student

Burton St. John

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director, Corporate Communication Master 's Program

Carol Anne Clayson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Scientist With Tenure, Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Carrie Ngai

Job Titles:
  • Smead Program Senior Coordinator

Charles Hull

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Chief Technology Officer, 3D Systems Corporation

Charlotte Rowland

Job Titles:
  • Master

Charlotte Whittaker

Job Titles:
  • Master

Chris Bell

Job Titles:
  • Director of Creative Inclusion, Skydance Animation

Chris Finnoff

Job Titles:
  • President and Founder, Finnoff Aviation

Chris Muldrow

Job Titles:
  • Smead Director

Chris Vargo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Chris Znerold

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Advertising, Public Relations

Chrissy Harrison

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Administration

Christoffer Heckman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Christopher Ellerhorst

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of the Kuiper Program at United Launch Alliance
  • Vice President, Kuiper Program, United Launch Alliance Member
Chris Ellerhorst is the vice president of the Kuiper Program at United Launch Alliance (ULA). In this role, he leads a team responsible for integrating finance, technical and operations activities associated with Amazon's Project Kuiper launches. Ellerhorst previously served as the director, Strategy, Business Development and Sales where he led the capture of more than $10.5B in new business orders. Additionally, he led ULA's Strategic Advisory Group of senior industry...

Christopher Koehler

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor

Christopher Williams

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor / Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research

Claire Monteleoni

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Corey Travis

Job Titles:
  • Student Experience Program Manager

Corky Townsend

Job Titles:
  • Director of Aviation Safety, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Cory Dixon

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technician

Craig Berkley

Job Titles:
  • Head of Revenue, LiveRamp TV

Craig Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Projects Manager, Lockheed Martin SkunkWorks

Cristina Torres-Machi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dale Lawrence

Job Titles:
  • Professor AES
  • Professor Director of RECUV

Dan Baker

Job Titles:
  • Director, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

Dan Ligon

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor / Advertising, Public Relations

Dan Massey

Job Titles:
  • Professor CS

Dan Russell

Job Titles:
  • Principle Research Analyst, Google

Daniel Scheeres

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor a. Richard Seebass Chair
  • Professor

Daniel Szafir

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dava Newman

Job Titles:
  • Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT )

David Klaus

Job Titles:
  • Professor

David Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

David Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Inclusive Excellence and Outreach Coordinator

David Nottoli

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor / Advertising, Public Relations

David Slayden

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

David Wheaton

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Lockheed Martin Corp ( Retired )
David Wisler, Manager University Programs, General Electric Aviation (retired)

David Wisler

Job Titles:
  • Manager University Programs, General Electric Aviation ( Retired )

Dawn Doty

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor / Advertising, Public Relations

Dean Misterek

Job Titles:
  • Head of Systems Engineering and Vehicle Architect, Blue Origin

Deb Renshaw

Job Titles:
  • Senior Academic Advisor ( Last Names

Debbie O'Neill

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advising Professional

Deborah Schaftlein

Job Titles:
  • Finance
  • HR Manager

Deepti Khedekar

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor / Advertising, Public Relations

Delores Knipp

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor / Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research

Dennis Akos

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Devon Jurcak

Job Titles:
  • Master 's Student

Diane Elliston

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor / Advertising, Public Relations

Dick Rumpf

Job Titles:
  • Founder, Rumpf Associates International

Dirk Grunwald

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Donald Vanlandingham

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Chair, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp

Earll Murman

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Elaine Oran

Job Titles:
  • Martin Institute Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland Emeritus, US Naval Research Laboratory

Eli Reshotko

Job Titles:
  • Kent H. Smith Professor Emeritus, Case Western Reserve University

Elina Day

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Budget and Finance

Emilia Gaeta

Job Titles:
  • Finance and Budget Specialist

Emiliano Dall'anese

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Emilie Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Technology Access Manager

Emily King Kinsey

Job Titles:
  • Student

Emily McCammon

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Advertising, Public Relations

Eric Frew

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Director
  • Professor Associate Chair for Department Affairs

Eric Keller

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ECEE

Eric Wustrow

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Erica Rodgers

Federal Aerospace Engineer with a Focus on Government-Wide Collaboration Dr. Erica Rodgers leads Science and Technology Partnerships within NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist. Rodgers establishes government-wide collaboration frameworks in technology areas where interagency teamwork is beneficial. She leads coordination and facilitation of partner dialog, collection of data, and data analysis. Resulting recommendations are used to advise and advocate on matters concerning agency-wide technology policy. Rodgers previously served as an...

Erik Knudsen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair for Undergraduate Curriculum
  • Teaching Associate Professor Associate Chair for Undergraduate Operations

Erin Ashbaugh

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager for the Center for Environmental Journalism ( CEJ )

Erin Schauster

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair of Graduate Studies Associate Professor / Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design

Erin Willis

Job Titles:
  • Director

Errol Hughes

Job Titles:
  • CMCI Personnel Director

Fabio Somenzi

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Francisco López Jiménez

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Frank Backes

Job Titles:
  • President, Center for Technology Research & Commercialization ( C - TRAC )

G. Thomas (Tom) Marsh

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President ( Retired ), Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company

Gen. John E. Shaw

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Commander
Deputy Commander, U.S. Space Command • Member 2022 - 2026 Lt. Gen. John E. Shaw is currently the Deputy Commander, U.S. Space Command. He is a Massachusetts native, and he entered the Air Force in 1990 as a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a degree in astronautical engineering and a minor in Russian language. Lt Gen Shaw has served in a variety of air and space operations and staff positions, from Silicon Valley to U.S. Air...

George J. Gleghorn

Job Titles:
  • Vice President and Chief Engineer ( Retired ), TRW Space and Technology Group

Gerald Yoho

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Fabrication and Test Engineer

Gijs de Boer

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist II

Grace Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Degree Audit Coordinator Academic Advising Professional
  • Professional Degree Audit Coordinator

Greg R. Enders

Director (retired) EAB Chair 2012-2014 Systems Engineering and Mission Operations Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Greg graduated from Colorado State University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1970 (yes, he had a class in vacuum tubes and knows how to use a slide rule). Upon graduation, he joined the U.S. Navy and spent the following 8 years in Naval Intelligence. His first real engineering job was with Lockheed Martin,...

Gregg Burgess

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Space Systems at General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems
Vice President, Space Systems General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group Mr. Burgess is vice president of Space Systems at General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) in Centenniel Colorado. Mr. Burgess is responsible for the operational execution and growth of an expanding portfolio of miniature, small and medium satellite system solutions, and space technologies across GA-EMS facilities located in Colorado, Alabama, Virginia and California. Space Systems and operates space capabilities for NASA, NOAA,...

Gregory Beylkin

Job Titles:
  • Professor

H. Joe Smead

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Kaiser Aerospace and Electronics ( Deceased )

H.T. Sears

Job Titles:
  • Memorial Professor Director, Center for National Security Initiatives

Hanh-Phuc Le

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ECEE

Hank Scott

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Hannah Stewart

Job Titles:
  • Communications Writer and Editor

Hanspeter Schaub

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair
  • Professor
Department Chair • Professor • Schaden Leadership Chair • Glenn Murphy Endowed Chair

Harry Surden

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Harsha Gangadharbatla

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Faculty Development

Heidi Wagner

Job Titles:
  • Global Head of Government Affairs for ElevateBio

Helen Armstrong-Weier

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advising Professional
Helen Armstrong-Weier was born and raised in Pennsylvania and earned a BA in Communication from a small liberal arts college. While an undergraduate, she spent two semesters abroad, in London and Perugia, Italy. She earned her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University where she taught a freshman seminar on fiction writing. Before joining the CMCI advising team she held a variety of roles in the education world, including teacher, recruiter and nonprofit program manager. Outside of work, she loves to read, write, explore national parks with her wife and play with her cats, Persephone and Calypso.

Henry Ugwu

Job Titles:
  • Student

Hilary Vartanian

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Founder, Meris Ventures

Hisham Ali

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Hunter Reeves

Job Titles:
  • Student

Ivett A. Leyva

Job Titles:
  • Department Head, Aerospace Engineering, Texas
  • Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas a & M University
Ivett A. Leyva became the head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University in September 2021. Previously, she worked at the Air Force for 15 years. She was the program officer for Hypersonic Aerodynamics at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, AFRL and prior to that she was a researcher at the AFRL Rocket Lab working on liquid rocket instabilities. Her technical expertise is in hypersonic...

Jack Elston

Founder and CEO Black Swift Technologies LLC Jack received two MS degrees and his PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder, and continues to work in the Boulder area as CEO and co-founder of Black Swift Technologies, recognized for delivering reliable, robust, and highly accurate Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) capable of flying scientific payloads in demanding atmospheric environments (high-altitude, corrosive particulates, and strong turbulence). Black Swift's purpose-built scientific aerial platforms...

Jackson Howard

Job Titles:
  • Master

Jacquelyn Stang

Job Titles:
  • Finance and Accounting Professional

Jade Morton

Job Titles:
  • Professor Helen and Hubert Croft Professor

James Brasseur

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor
  • Research Professor / Aerospace Mechanics Research Center

James McAnally

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Lockheed Martin Astronautics ( Retired ) EAB Chair 1998 - 2002

James Nabity

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jane Caulfield

Job Titles:
  • Student

Jay Ferracane

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Advertising, Public Relations

Jay McMahon

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor AES
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Jeff Gillette

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor / Advertising, Public Relations

Jeff Glusman

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Jeff Zehnder

Job Titles:
  • Senior Communications Specialist

Jeffrey Forbes

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research Professor
Professor Forbes' research interests include the upper atmosphere environments of Earth, Mars, and other planets; coupling of these environments to lower altitudes and to solar variability; geomagnetic storm effects on satellite drag variability; the vertical propagation of tides and planetary waves in planetary atmospheres, and their electrodynamic and chemical effects; utilization of accelerometer, satellite drag, and satellite remote sensing data to elucidate atmospheric variability, and to test, validate and develop upper atmosphere models. He also conducts numerical simulations of the above phenomena.

Jeffrey Thayer

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor
Research Professor • Professor Emeritus • Director of SWx-TREC

Jen Crum

Job Titles:
  • Global Marketing and Communications, Microsoft

Jennifer Uchida

Manager, Test and Evaluation AeroTEC, Inc. Jen Uchida graduated from the University of Colorado in 2005 with a bachelor's and master's degree in aerospace engineering. Following graduation, she accepted a position with the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) as a civilian flight test engineer for the Marine Corps in Patuxent River, MD. There she supported the experimental flight testing of the V-22 Osprey, deploying several new and lifesaving capabilities to...

Jeremy Peña

Job Titles:
  • Area Director, Student
  • Area Director, Student Support and Advising Services

Jill Dupre

Job Titles:
  • ATLAS Associate Director

Jill Jones

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Student Experience

Jill White

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Development

Joanie Wiesman

Job Titles:
  • BioServe Research Manager / BioServe Space Technologies

Joe Arney

Job Titles:
  • Editor
  • Senior Writer

John Crimaldi

Job Titles:
  • Professor

John Evans

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Jack Rominger Faculty Fellow Associate Chair for Undergraduate Curriculum

John Farnsworth

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor

John Leach - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner

John Mah

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Jolene Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies

Jonathan Frett

Job Titles:
  • IT Assets and Labs Coordinator

Jonathan Treisman

Job Titles:
  • Director, Strategic Partnerships at Emmy Awards / Television Academy

Jordan Morehouse

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jorge Garza

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Manager

Jorge I. Poveda

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Joseph Labrecque

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor / Advertising, Public Relations

Josh Foust

Job Titles:
  • Student

Josh Wills

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Advertising, Public Relations

Ka Yong

Job Titles:
  • Master

Kaitlyn Wright

Job Titles:
  • Student

Kate Chambers

Job Titles:
  • Master

Kate Friedel

Job Titles:
  • Student

Kathryn Wingate

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Katrina Dipietrantonio

Job Titles:
  • Events Coordinator

Katya Arquilla

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kaushik Jayaram

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kay Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair

Kayla Vandegrift

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Suite Manager

Keith Gremban

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

Kelly Graziadei

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and General Partner, F7 Ventures

Kelty Logan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Emerita

Kenneth Jansen

Job Titles:
  • Professor Denver Business Challenge Endowed Professorship Director of AMReC

Khosro Ghobadi-Far

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kimberly Coffin

Job Titles:
  • Multimedia Production Manager

Kira Schulz

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor First Year Students

Kirk Siegler

Job Titles:
  • National Correspondent, NPR News

Kitty McChesney

Job Titles:
  • Master

Krishnamurthy Sriramesh

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Public Relations / Advertising, Public Relations

Kristin Kaiser

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Coordinator

Kurt Maute

Job Titles:
  • Professor Palmer Engineering Chair Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education

Kyle Harris

Job Titles:
  • Student

Lanny Pinchuk

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Engineering, and Director, External Relations, CU ( Retired )

Laura Clayton

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Research Finance and Operations Senior Manager

Laura Vidal

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager for the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design ( APRD )
Laura Vidal • Office Manager for the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design (APRD) laura.vidal@colorado.edu 303-492-9941 Office: Armory 102B

Lauren Cole - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Chairman
  • Manager of Operations
Manager of Operations and Assistant to the Chair: Lauren Cole 303-735-0855 Chair: Professor Hanspeter Schaub 303-492-8183

Laurence Young

Job Titles:
  • Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ( Deceased )

Laurie Cantillo

Job Titles:
  • Special Projects & Web Modernization, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Leah J. Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Program Manager, Donor Relations

Li Shang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Libby Aliberti

Job Titles:
  • Professional Assistant ( Dean 's Office )

Lijun Chen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Linda Cuplin

Job Titles:
  • Senior Systems Engineer, Lockheed Martin Aerospace Systems

Linda Shoemaker

Job Titles:
  • President, Brett Family Foundation

Lisa Guinther

Job Titles:
  • Journalism Professional Assistant

Lisa Hardaway

Job Titles:
  • Chief Engineer - Orion Program, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Co. EAB Chair 2016 - 2017 ( Deceased )

Loni Peterson

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor / Advertising, Public Relations

Lori Bergen

Job Titles:
  • Founding Dean

Lori Wichhart

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Louis Stodieck

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor
Research Professor • Chief Scientist, BioServe Space Technologies

Lucy Pao

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Lydia Pinkham


Maggie Martin

Job Titles:
  • Academic Technology and Media Professional

Mahmoud Hussein

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Majid Zamani

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Malinda Miller

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Communications and Engagement

Marco Nicotra

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Marcus Holzinger

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Margot Kaminski

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Law

Mark Gross

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Mark Heisten

Job Titles:
  • Student

Mark Rentschler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Mark Sirangelo

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Vice President, Sierra Nevada Corp. Space Systems Group

Martin Kelley

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Projects Specialist

Mary Beth Searles

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Advancement

Maryam Mahani

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Advertising, Public Relations

Maryam Shakiba

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Matea Beukelman

Job Titles:
  • Student

Matt Rhode

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Maureen Craig

Job Titles:
  • Lead

Melinda Kiger Cheval

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor Emerita / Advertising, Public Relations

Melissa Flores

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Coordinator

Melissa Pickett

Job Titles:
  • Student

Melissa Piper

Job Titles:
  • Curriculum Manager

Melvin Rafi

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor

Michael Drews - VP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Engineer
  • Vice President
Chief Engineer Vice President, Lockheed Martin Space • Member 2022 - 2026 Michael Drews is the Chief Engineer Vice President for LM Space, where he leads the technical excellence and innovation strategies for over 10,000 engineers across five Spacecraft and Missile mission areas. He's an executive leader with over 30 years of system development experience on Classified, DoD and NASA programs. He's helped engineer multiple next generation systems that pushed boundaries in national aerospace capabilities. Before joining LM in 2000, he began...

Michael From

Job Titles:
  • Executive Manager Aerodynamics Engineernig, Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Mike Francis

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Advanced Programs, United Technologies Research Center

Mike Gazarik

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Engineering - Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp

MIT Lauren J. Kessler

Job Titles:
  • Principal Staff
Principal Staff, Lincoln Laboratory Engineering Division, MIT Lauren J. Kessler is Principal Staff in the Lincoln Laboratory Engineering Division. Her focus is on initiatives in verifying and validating complex and autonomous systems, advancing systems engineering and software engineering practices, and furthering mission-specific interdivisional partnerships in autonomy, unmanned systems, and human-embedded systems. Prior to joining the Laboratory in 2021, Ms. Kessler was a member of the technical staff at Draper Laboratory,...

Monica E. Carroll

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager for the Department of Communication

Morgan Bays


Morgan Young

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Assistant Professor / Advertising, Public Relations

Morteza Lahijanian

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Moyra Knight

Job Titles:
  • Vice President Commercial Communications, Astellas Pharma Inc

Mr. Karl Edquist

Job Titles:
  • Senior Aerospace Engineer, NASA 's Langley Research Center Member
Mr. Karl Edquist works in the Engineering Directorate at NASA's Langley Research Center, where he has been employed since 2000. He specializes in aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic analysis of planetary entry vehicles for NASA planetary science missions and as a Principal Investigator for technology development projects. He was Aerothermal Lead for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and Mars 2020 missions, and Principal Investigator for Propulsive Descent testing in the Langley Unitary Plan...

Nat Banda

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Academic Advisor ( Last Names H - N, Sk - T )

Natasha Bosanac

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Nate Coyle

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Machine Shop and Fabrication Instructional Lab Coordinator

Nathaniel Longmore

Job Titles:
  • Master

Neal Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Technology Development, DigitalGlobe

Neal Scarbrough

Job Titles:
  • Vice President and General Manager of Marketplace
Neal Scarbrough (Jour'84) is the vice president and general manager of Marketplace where he oversees a team of broadcast and digital journalists, editors and producers around the United States and abroad. Previously, Scarbrough was the vice president and executive editor at FOX Sports. Scarbrough was part of the Denver Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for its coverage of the Columbine High School shooting. He also earned the Online Journalism Award for General Excellence when he was editor-in-chief at ESPN.com in 2003.

Ngoc Le

Job Titles:
  • Learning Spaces and AV Coordinator

Nicole Simmons

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Manager

Nikolaus Correll

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Nisar Ahmed

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Noel Hinners

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Flight Systems, Lockheed Martin Astronautics EAB Chair 2006 - 2008 ( Deceased )

Orit Peleg

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Paige Wilson

Job Titles:
  • First - Year Academic Advisor and Academic Coach
  • First Year Advisor
Paige Wilson is a first-year academic advisor and academic coach in CMCI. She supports incoming first-year students as an advisor and all of CMCI as an academic coach. After attending California Polytechnic State University, SLO to receive a bachelor's degree in agriculture science, Paige was ready to swap the beach for the mountains and decided to move to Denver to attend the University of Denver. She graduated in 2021 with a master's degree in higher education. After graduation, Paige moved to Boulder to start her career with Front Range Community College as an admissions counselor. Now, Paige is excited to be a part of the herd! Paige is deeply passionate about college access, persistence and success for all students and is thrilled she can continue that work here. SKO BUFFS! When away from campus, you can find Paige enjoying the outdoors: camping, snowboarding, and playing or coaching volleyball. Paige's advice to CU Boulder students is to choose your major with your intuition and heart. You will feel when you are in the major that is right for you!

Parisa Tashakori

Job Titles:
  • Director, Masters of Strategic Communication Design Program

Pavol Cerny

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Penina Axelrad

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor Joseph T. Negler Professor

Peter DeLuca

Job Titles:
  • Chief Creative Officer and Senior Vice President, T - Mobile

Peter Lasser

Job Titles:
  • Producer and Director, Lasser Productions

Pritha Agarwal

Job Titles:
  • Student

Pulung Perbawani


Qin Lv

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor CS

R. Joanne Guillery

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager for the NEST Studio for the Arts

R. Steven Nerem

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director of CCAR

Raaj Chandran

Job Titles:
  • Student

Raymond L. Kolibaba

Systems Development Operations Mission Systems Sector, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Northrop Grumman Corp 2008 - 2010, Chair, External Advisory Board, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, UCB Mr. Kolibaba has over 30 years of experience in general management, business development, program management and systems engineering for information technology systems. He is a proven leader who can achieve staff support to change culture and establish different approaches, including technology insertion reuse and COTS integration.

Renee Conway

Job Titles:
  • CCAR Finance Manager

Rich Bowen

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer / Advertising, Public Relations

Richard Cook

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Richard Franklin

Job Titles:
  • Master

Richard Herring - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
CEO (retired) Spectral Solutions, Inc. 2002-Present, Executive Director, Engineers Without Borders 2002-2006; 2010-2012, Chair, External Advisory Board, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, CU-Boulder 1998-2001, CEO/COO, Spectral Solutions, Inc. 1997-1998, Executive Consultant, Videant International, Inc. 1995-1997, CEO, EarthWatch, Inc. (retired) 1991-1995, Vice President, Ball Aerospace (retired) 1987-1991, Chief Operating Officer, Ball Aerospace

Richard Khleif

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director of Global Marketing, Communication and Engagement, Oracle Corporation

Rick Han

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Robert Barba

Job Titles:
  • News Editor, the Wall Street Journal

Robert MacCurdy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ME

Robert Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs
  • Associate Chair for Graduate Studies

Robyn Macdonald

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

Ron F. Blackwelder

Professor (retired) Dept of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering University of Southern California Ron graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.S. in Aerospace Sciences in 1964, spent a year at the Technische Hochschule in Munich and completed his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University in Fluid Mechanics. His career spanned 42 years at USC where he conducted experimental research on aerodynamics, flight mechanics and the dynamics of transition and...

Saima Kazmi

Job Titles:
  • Student

Sam Miller

Job Titles:
  • Building Manager

Sam Whitaker

Job Titles:
  • First Year Advisor

Sandra Romero

Job Titles:
  • Development Assistant, Part Time

Sanghamitra Neogi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )

SanTres Broussard

Job Titles:
  • Master 's Student

Sara Alatmi

Job Titles:
  • Student

Sara Fischer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Production, Shondaland

Sarah Mandos

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager for the Department
  • Research Administration Specialist
Sarah Mandos • Business Manager for the Department of Information Science (INFO) • Research Administration Specialist for CMCI sarah.mandos@colorado.edu 303-735-6174 Office: TLC 235

Sarah Melssen

Job Titles:
  • CCAR Research Manager / Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research

Savannah Sellers

Job Titles:
  • NBC News Now Anchor Stay Tuned Co - Host NBC News Correspondent / CMCI Advisory Board
Savannah Sellers anchors Morning News Now, the flagship morning newscast on NBC News' 24/7 streaming network NBC News Now, and co-hosts Stay Tuned, NBC News' mobile-first Gen Z news brand, on Snapchat. Sellers is also an NBC News correspondent reporting across all platforms including TODAY and NBC Nightly News. Since joining NBC News, Sellers' in-depth reporting has heavily focused on the trends and social issues impacting Gen Z and millennial audiences, from mental to gun violence in America, climate change, internet culture and politics. Her headline-making exclusive interview with Anna Sorokin is just one example of the countless interviews she's held with notable public figures, politicians, celebrities, athletes and more. Sellers is the recipient of a News & Documentary Emmy for her work as a producer on the NBC Nightly News series "Hooked: America's Heroin Epidemic." She also received the 2022 Gracie Award for Online Video Host. Sellers began her career in New York with the NBCUniversal Page Program before working at NBC Nightly News and as the executive assistant to the president of MSNBC. She is originally from San Diego and holds a degree in Broadcast News and International Media from the University of Colorado at Boulder's School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Scott Palo

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Scott Tibbitts

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, SpaceDev Inc

Sean Humbert

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor ME

Sean Peters

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Seow Ting Lee

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design

Shalom Ruben

Job Titles:
  • Instructor / ME

Shelby Javernick

Job Titles:
  • Student Recruitment & Outreach Program Director

Shiv Mishra

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Shu-Wei Huang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Simona Kelley

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, Northrop Grumman Electronics Systems - Navigation Systems Division

Sonia Fraser

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant, Communication

Sriram Sankaranarayanan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Stefanie Countryman

Job Titles:
  • Director

Stefanie Papasoglu

Job Titles:
  • Master

Stephanie M. Quon

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advising Professional

Stephanie Marchesi

Job Titles:
  • President for the Health Sector & Eastern Region, WE Communications

Steve Silva

Job Titles:
  • Director of Technology Experience

Steve Smith

Vice President and General Manager Systems Engineering Solutions Ball Aerospace As Vice President and General Manager of the Systems Engineering Solutions strategic business unit, Steve is responsible for all aspects of Systems Engineering Solutions nationwide operations and contract performance. Steve joined Ball in 2011 serving in a number of roles before assuming his current responsibilities. Steve retired as a Colonel from the United States Air Force in 2011 after serving...

Steven D. Jolly

Chief Engineer, Business Innovation, Transformation and Enterprise Excellence (BITEE) Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Dr. Jolly has served Project Orion off and on as an independent advisor and tiger team lead for entry, descent and landing. He was Program Manager for the Mars Science Lab Aeroshell and a member of the Independent Assessment Panel for the MSL Landing Site Selection (June, 2011), and has served as a member of EDL...

Steven Seagle

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder, Man of Action Entertainment

Susan Avila

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Academic Advising
  • Assistant Director of Advising

Susan K. Avery - President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • Director of CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder
President Emerita, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • Member 2023 - 2027 Susan K. Avery is president emerita of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and professor emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder (UCB) serving in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). She served as a faculty affiliate in the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at UCB and as a Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the University...

Thomas Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Space and Facilities Coordinator

Tim Wieland

Job Titles:
  • General Manager, CBS Colorado

Timothy K. Minton

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Mechanics Research Center ( AMReC )
  • Professor

Tobias Niederwieser

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Toby Hopp

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Graduate Programs

Todd Wantuch

Job Titles:
  • Fellow, Northrop Grumman Member
Todd graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1994. Since graduating he has spent the majority of the last 2+ decades with Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) pioneering disruptive approaches across a diverse portfolio of space projects from upstart commercial to launch vehicles to major US Government space programs. He initially worked on the ORBCOMM "little LEO" commercial constellation serving as...

Tom Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Industry & Alumni Relations Manager

Tom Yeh

Job Titles:
  • Affiliate Professor / CS
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science
Tom Yeh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received a PhD in Computer Science from MIT. His research and teaching center on HCI issues with societal impacts. His is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award that seeks to promote emergent literacy for blind children using 3D printing. He also studies citizen science, big data, and software security, which are supported by NSF and DARPA.

Tomoko Matsuo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Smead Faculty Fellow

Torin Clark

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor

Trudy Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Professor Associate Chair for Experiential Learning

Tzigane Martin

Job Titles:
  • Embedded Career Advisor for CMCI and College of Music

Ute Herzfeld

Job Titles:
  • Associate Research Professor

Vanessa Aponte Williams

Unique Experiences Lead - Orbital Reef Blue Origin Dr. Vanessa Aponte Williams is the Unique Experiences Lead for Blue Origin's Orbital Reef commercial space station. In this role, Vanessa is a liaison between the needs of commercial customers, such as private astronauts, and the design teams that enable their missions. Prior to Blue Origin, Vanessa led Human Landing System Ascent Element Mission Operations, ensuring end-to-end mission operations integration between design...

Vickey Moler

Job Titles:
  • Director of Systems Engineering and Integration for Sierra Space 's Destinations
Director of Systems Engineering and Integration, Sierra Space • Member 2022 - 2026 Vickey Moler is the Director of Systems Engineering and Integration for Sierra Space's Destinations sector, and the acting Lead of Systems Engineering in Sierra's Central Engineering organization. She is responsible for establishing the infrastructure, education, data governance, and processes required to make Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) a successful standard approach for the Destinations, Transportation, and Applications sectors of Sierra Space. Prior to Sierra Space, Vickey led Digital Transformation strategic implementation...

Victor M. Bright

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Mechanical Engineering

Violet F. Mwaffo

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate / ME

Wangda Zuo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Wendy Senger

Job Titles:
  • Department Assistant for Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design ( APRD )

Wenjun (Olivia) Zhou

Job Titles:
  • Student

Xinlin Li

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Xinzhao Chu

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Xudong Chen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Yanyun (Mia) Wang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Yifu Ding

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Yu-Han Wu

Job Titles:
  • Student

Zachary Sunberg

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles ( RECUV )

Zoltan Sternovsky

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor