Leadership Team
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Karan Jani, Ph.D.
Founding Director
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Robert Reed, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor to the Director
Bio
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James Trippe, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Lunar Instrumentation
Bio
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David Wright, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Lunar Science Communication and Workforce
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Sankaran Mahadevan, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Lunar Infrastructure
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J.B. Ruhl, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Lunar Governance
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Jesse Spencer-Smith
Associate Director, Lunar Intelligent Computing
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Carie Fortenberry
Senior Program Manager
Affiliated Faculty
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Jad Abumrad
College of Arts & Science, CSET
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Michael Alles, Ph.D.
School of Engineering, ECE & ISDE
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Lynne Cooper, Ph.D.
School of Engineering, MS&E
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Yayun Du
School of Engineering, ECE
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Mona Ebrish, Ph.D.
School of Engineering, ECE
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John Eley, Ph.D.
School of Medicine, Medical Physics
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Alfredo Gurrola, Ph.D.
College of Arts & Science, Physics
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Gabor Karsai, Ph.D.
School of Engineering, ECE & CS
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Alan Kuntz, Ph.D.
School of Engineering, ECE & CS
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Michael Miga, Ph.D.
School of Engineering, BME
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Brian Sierawski, Ph.D.
School of Engineering, ECE & ISDE
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Ganesh Sitaraman
School of Law, VPA
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Bill Smith, Ph.D.
Fisk University, Physics
Lunar Labs Fellows
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Anjali Yelikar, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow, Physics & Astronomy
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Chayan Chatterjee, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow, Physics & Astronomy
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Krystal Ruiz-Rocha, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral Fellow, Physics EMIT Program
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Suyash Deshmukh
Graduate Student, Physics & Astronomy
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Phoenix Harris
Graduate Student, ECE
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Nicholas-Tyler Howard
Graduate Student, Physics & Astronomy
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Kaylah McGowan
Graduate Student, Physics & Astronomy
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Ryan Nowicki
Graduate Student, Physics & Astronomy
Lunar Labs Scholars
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Patrick Battulga
Undergraduate Student, ECE
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Remington Holder
Undergraduate Student, ECE & Physics
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Jeremiah Webb
Undergraduate Student, CS, Math, & Physics
Staff Scientists
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Michael Hu, Ph.D.
Principal Research Engineer, ISDE
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Andrew Sternberg, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist, ISDE
Lunar Labs Alumni
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Roy Lau
Undergraduate, 2026