Dr. Houman Hakima is the Technical Team Lead at Space Strategies Consulting Ltd. In Ottawa, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto, and his current research interests include space-systems engineering, novel small-satellite mission concepts, orbital mechanics, trajectory design and control, attitude dynamics, estimation, and space. In 2020, he obtained Grand Master Certification from Analytical Graphical Inc.'s Systems Tool Kit (STK).

Dr. Michael C.F. Bazzocchi is an Assistant Professor at Clarkson University and Director of the Astronautics and Robotics Laboratory (ASTRO Lab). Previously, Dr. Bazzocchi held positions at the University of Toronto (Canada) in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, the Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics, the Toronto Institute of Advanced Manufacturing, and the Institute for Aerospace Studies. He was a researcher in Onboard Space Systems at Luleå University of Technology (Sweden). Dr. Bazzocchi also worked for the RHEA Group as a spacecraft concurrent design engineer on the Canadian Space Agency satCODE (satellite concurrent design) project.
Dr. Bazzocchi's research interests can be broadly categorized into the fields of astronautics and robotics.