ADVISORY BOARD
DARREL ROBERTSON
Darrel is currently working at NASA Ames on asteroid threat assessment. Interested in space exploration from a young age before earning a B.Sc.in Physics with Space Science and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Served at MDRS crew 89 as an engineer. He is Associate Director for Reguirements and Guidelines at University Rover Challenge (URC).
LUCAS WILczynski
Lucas works at Planet Partners which is a consulting company specializing in communication consulting, campaign implementation and crisis management. He is co-founder of European Space Foundation which organises European Rover Challenge(ERC). Lucas is currently President of the Advisory Board of ERC.
TULLY FOOTE
Tully is Community and Business Development Manager at Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF). Tully has been a core ROS developer since his college days. He attended Caltech and UPenn earning his BS and MS while working on all three of the the DARPA Grand Challenges.He has worked on ROS at Willow Garage before joining OSRF in 2013, as well as many other projects including designing the TurtleBot.
JUSTYNA PELC
Justyna is founder and leader of the award-winning Innspace team, realizing space-related projects. Winners of the ESA Grand Prix at the Student Aerospace Challege, 5th place in the Mars Colony Prize competition, Gold Winner and Winner in the Future Mars Life or “Shortlisted” competition at the Kuala Lumpur Architecture Festival. She holds BSc degree in Robotics and Control Engineering from Wrocław University of Science and Technology. She is a member of the Student Council at the President of the Polish Space, member of BRIGHT1 analog mission.
Dr. arockia selvakumar
Dr. Arockia is Senior Associate Professor at Vellore Insitute of Technology, Chennai. He has 20 years of teaching and research experience in in the field of robotics and CAD. He is faculty advisor of Technocrats Robotics, a student project team which participates in Mars Rover Competitions and Robocon. He was the Chairman of Indian Rover Challenge 2020.
JUSTIN GEREIN
Justin is Engineering Manager at SED Research Inc. He is the Director and founding member of Canadian Space Technology Advancement Group (CSTAG) which is the organiser of Canadian International Rover Challenge. During his college days, he lead University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team which designs Mars rovers.