CROSSFIRE TEAM

Seasoned members who will lead the team to win the competition

Faculty

Shapour Azarm
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Shapour Azarm

Director, Design Decision Support Lab
Mechanical Engineering

Lina Castano
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Lina Castano

Assistant Research Scientist
Aerospace Engineering

Inderjit Chopra
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Inderjit Chopra

Director of Gessow Rotorcraft Center (AGRC)
Aerospace Engineering

Evan Ellicott
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Evan Ellicott

Associate Research Professor

Jeffrey Herrmann
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Jeffrey Herrmann

Professor, St. Abbo of Fleury Chair in Engineering

Kayo Ide

Kayo Ide

Associate Professor of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, ESSIC, IPST, and Department of Mathematics

Derek Paley
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Derek Paley

Willis H. Young Jr. Professor of Aerospace Engineering Education, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Institute for Systems Research

Fernando Raffan-Montoya
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Fernando Raffan-Montoya

Assistant Professor
Department of Fire Protection Engineering

Carlos Rios Ocampo
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Carlos Rios Ocampo

Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering

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Umberto Saetti

Assistant Professor
Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center

Matt Scassero
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Matt Scassero

Director, UMD UAS Test Site Former Vice Commander for Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division

John Slaughter
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John Slaughter

Director of the UMD UAS Research and Operations Center

Stanislav Stoliarov

Professor
Department of Fire Protection Engineering

Mike Tinskey
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Mike Tinskey

Professor of the Practice, Chair Fellow of Entrepreneurship, Woodruff School, Georgia Tech

Pratap Tokekar
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Pratap Tokekar

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and UMIACS

Arnaud Trouvé
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Arnaud Trouvé

Professor and Chair
Department of Fire Protection Engineering

Mumu Xu
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Mumu Xu

Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering

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Advisors

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Captain Jim Golondzinier

Fire Captain, Fire Behavior Training Lead at the Los Angeles County Fire Department

Project Managers

Emmanuel Eshemokhai Etsu
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Emmanuel
Eshemokhai Etsu

Graduate student, Master of Science in Supply Chain

Satish Vennapu
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Satish Vennapu

Graduate Student, Master of Engineering in robotics

Engineering Interns

Graham Buccheri
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Graham Buccheri

Computer Science Student

Patrick James Collins

Research Graduate Assistant Aerospace Engineering

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Lindon Luu

Fire Protection Engineering Student

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Eashwar Sathyamurthy

Robotics PhD candidate

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