The Advanced LIGO Engineering Team
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The Advanced LIGO Engineering Team
LIGO Laboratory—Caltech
Ben Abbott, Electronics engineer
Rich Abbott, Lead electronics engineer
Robert Anderson, Lead QA/manufacturing engineer
Lisa Austin, Mechanical engineer
GariLynn Billingsley, Lead optical engineer
Rolf Bork, Lead software engineer
Dennis Coyne, Chief engineer
Kate Gushwa, Mechanical engineer
Jay Heefner, Lead electronics engineer
Alastair Heptonstall, Lead laser engineer
Alex Ivanov, Real time software engineer
Mindy Jacobson, Opto‐mechanical engineer
Eric James, Systems engineer
Jeff Lewis, QA/manufacturing engineer
Mohana Mageswaran, Electrical engineer
Ken Mailand, Opto‐mechanical engineer
Margot Phelps, Optical engineer
Eduardo Sanchez, Design engineer
Zhenhua Shao, Electronics engineer
Michael Smith, Opto‐mechanical engineer
Calum Torrie, Deputy Chief engineer
Liyuan Zhang, Optical engineer
LIGO Laboratory—MIT
Sam Barnum, Mechanical engineer
Sebastien Biscans, Mechanical engineer
Stephany Foley, Mechanical engineer
Michael Hillard, Mechanical engineer
Ken Mason, Lead mechanical engineer
Fabrice Matichard, Lead mechanical engineer
Rich Mittleman, Controls engineer
Andy Stein, Mechanical engineer
LIGO Laboratory—LIGO Hanford Observatory
Dave Barker, Lead computer systems engineer
Jeff Bartlett, Operations Specialist
Jim Batch, Software engineer
Filiberto Clara, Electrical engineer
Doug Cook, Optical engineer
Joe DeRenzis, Vacuum Technician
Jodi Fauver, Mechanical Technician
Corey Gray, mechanical engineer
Jonathan Hanks, Software engineer
Peter King, Lead laser engineer
Jeff Kissel, Lead controls engineer
Vincent Lhuillier, Controls engineer
Richard McCarthy Lead electrical engineer
Edmond Merilh, Electronics assembly and test engineer
Gerardo Moreno, Assembly, test, and QA engineer
Jason Oberling, Opto‐mechanical engineer
Hugh Radkins, Lead servo‐mechanical installation/test engineer
Cyrus Reed, Software engineer
Mitchell Robinson, Mechanical Technician
Kyle Ryan, Vacuum engineer
Travis Sadecki, Operations Specialist
Paul Schwinberg, Electrical engineer
Aaron Sevigny, Electrical engineer
Thomas J. Shaffer, Operations Specialist
Patrick Thomas, Software Engineer
Cheryl Vorvick, Opto‐mechanical engineer
Jim Warner, Installation and test engineer
Betsy Weaver, Lead opto‐mechanical installation/test engineer
John Worden, Lead Operations engineer
LIGO Laboratory—LIGO Livingston Observatory
Carl Adams, Lead electronics engineer
Stuart Aston, Opto-mechanical engineer
Derek Bridges, Assembly and test engineer
Jeremy Birch, Operations Specialist
Mike Fyfe, Electro-optical Technician
Dwayne Giardina, Software engineer
Chris Guido, Optical Engineer
Joe Hanson, Operations Specialist
David Kinzel, Electronics engineer
Adrien LeRoux, Integration and testing engineer
Scott McCormick, Vacuum engineer
Mike Meyer, Mechanical engineer
Adam Mullavey, Systems engineer
David Nolting, Safety Engineer
Richard Oram, Lead Operations Engineer
Harry Overmier, Vacuum technician
Arnaud Pele, Integration and testing engineer
Celine Ramet, Lead mechanical engineer
Janeen Romie, Lead mechanical engineer
Danny Sellers, Operations Specialist
Bryan Smith, Mechanical Technician
Keith Thorne, Lead computer systems engineer
Gary Traylor, Lead assembly/installation engineer
Michael Vargas, SEI assembly engineer
Albert Einstein Institute and Laser Zentrum Hannover
Maik Frede, Electro‐optics engineer
Gerrit Kuehn, Computer systems engineer
Michaela Pickenpack, Electro‐optics engineer
Oliver Puncken, Electro‐optics engineer
Andreas Weidner, Electronics engineer
Lutz Winkelmann, Opto‐mechanical engineer
Glasgow University
Angus Bell, Opto‐mechanical engineer
Russell Jones, Opto‐mechanical engineer
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Justin Greenhalgh, Lead mechanical engineer
Joe O'Dell, Mechanical engineer
Ian Wilmut, Mechanical engineer
Stanford University
Charles Celerier, Software engineer
Dan Clark, Mechanical engineer
Dan DeBra, System design engineer
Corwin Hardham, Mechanical engineer
Brian Lantz, Lead system and controls engineer
Hugo Paris, Controls engineer
Brett Shapiro, Controls and modeling engineer
University of Florida
Muzamil Arain, Optical engineer
Joe Gleason, Opto‐mechanical engineer
Matthew Heintze, Opto‐mechanical engineer
Rodica Martin, Optical engineer
Luke Williams, Opto‐mechanical engineer
