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The ET Team

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Team Leader

Dr. Jian Ge (Professor)

Faculty

Dr. Xiaoke Wan (Assistant Scientist)

Dr. Bo Zhao (Assistant Scientist)

Staff

Scott Powell (Instr. Program Manager)
Liang Chang (Visiting Scholar)
Shaun McDowell (Software engineer)
Jane Liu (Research Coordinator)
John Groot (Mechanical Engineer)

Associated Shared Engineers

Kevin Hanna (Electronic Engineer)
Frank Varosi (Software Engineer)
Sidney Schofield (IPC)
Michael Herlevich (Machinist)
Skip Frommeyer (Machinist)
Charles Murphey (Mechanical Engineer)
Greg Bennett (Mechanical Engineer)

Post-Docs

Dr. Brian Lee
Dr. Nathan De Lee
Dr. Duy Cuong Nguyen

Graduate Students

Scott Fleming (Astronomy)
Ji Wang (Astronomy)
Jiwei Xie (Visiting Student, Astronomy, NJU)
Bo Ma (Astronomy)
Peng Jiang (Visiting Student, Astronomy, USTC)
Robert Morehead (Astronomy)
Pengcheng Guo (Astronomy)
Sadeep Bollampally (Electronic Engineering)
Liming Dou (Visiting student, Astronomy, YNAO)
Rohan Pais (Mechanical engineering)
Adam Fletcher (Aerospace engineering)

Undergraduate Students

Ana Delgado-Navarro
Erin Costello
Troy Bosman
Hali Jakeman
Gabriel Marquez

Collaborators at UF

Dr. Eric Ford
Dr. Jian Li (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Dr. Weihong Tan (Chemistry)
Dr. Katia Matcheva (Physics)

Collaborators at Other Institutions

Eric Agol (U. Washington)
Scott Gaudi (Ohio State)
Sara Seager (MIT)
Eduardo Martin (IAC, Spain)
Don Schneider (Penn State)
Greg Henry (Tennessee State)
Garik Israelian (IAC, Spain)
Bill Cochran (Texas)
Holland Ford (JHU)
David Weinberg (Ohio State)
Daniel Eisenstein (Arizona)
David Montes (UCM, Spain)
Jon Hotzman (New Mexico State)
Suzzane Hawley (Washington)
Alex Wolszczan (Penn State)
John Bally (Colorado)
Michele Montgomery (UCF)
Tinggui Wang (USTC)
Jiling Zhou (Nanjing Univ.)
Hongyan Zhou (USTC)
Weimin Yuan (YNO)
Jim Gunn (Princeton)
French Leger (U. Washington)
Bruce Gillespie (APO)
Doug Lin (Lick)
Jeff Valenti (STScI)
Sivarani Thirupathi (IIA)
Suvrath Mahadevan (Penn State)
Julian van Eyken (NExSci)
Stephen R. Kane (NExSci)
Josh Pepper (Vanderbilt)
Keivan G. Stassun (Vanderbilt, Fisk)
Martin Paegert (Vanderbilt)
Trey Mack (Vanderbilt)
Leslie Hebb (Vanderbilt)
David Bennett (Notre Dame)
John Wisniewski (Washington)
Rory Barnes (Washington)
Tsevi Mazeh (Tel Aviv)
Shay Zucker (Tel Aviv)
Jianning Fu(BNU)
Tsevi Mazeh (Tel Aviv)

Former Team Members

Former Ph.Ds:

Justin Crepp (Postdoc, Caltech)
Suvrath Manadevan (Assistant professor at Penn State)
Julian van Eyken (Postdoc, NExSci, Caltech)

Former Postdocs:

Sivarani Thirupathi (Assistant professor, Institute of Astrophysics, India)
Steve Kane (Staff, IPAC, Caltech)
Julian van Eyken (Postdoc, NExSci, Caltech)
 Bo Zhao (Assistant Scientist, UF)
Suvrath Mahadevan (Assistant professor at Penn State)
Abihijit Chakraborty (Assistant professor, Physical Research Laboratory of India)
Deqing Ren (Assistant professor, California State University at Northridge)
Mari Cruz Galvez (CURIE postdoc fellow, University of Hertfordshire. UK)

Former Staffs:

Fred Hearty (Scientist, Virginia)

Former Long-term Visitors (more than 1 year):

Hongyan Zhou (Prof. USTC)
Zhiping Chen (Prof. Hangzhou Dianzi University)
Alaina Shelden (Observer, APO)