Meet The Team

Founder & Director
Shivam Kumar Singh
Machine Learning and Spectrum Engineer at Intelsat, Luxmebourg
Graduate Student Researcher at SIGCOM, SnT, University of Luxembourg
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Former Bioastronautics Researcher at International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS), USA.
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4 provisional discoveries of asteroids
designated as 2020 RM98, 2020 SS68, 2022 SM158 and 2022 SY80.​
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40+ talks delivered as a guest speaker.
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Former Judge at Technical Board IIT Guwahati, NASA Space Apps Pune Lead, Hack the mountains etc.

Director of Space Technology
Harshal More, Ph.D.
Navigation Engineer at Thales Alenia Space, Italy.
Expertise in LEO-PNT systems, mega-constellations, GNSS (GPS, GALILEO, NavIC), inter-satellite links, 5G-NTN, space robotics, mission analysis, space system engineering, and space law. ​
Ph.D. in the Department of Electronics Engineering and II-Level Master’s degree in Engineering and International Space Law in Satellite Systems for Communication, Navigation, and Sensing at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” Italy. M.Sc. in Space and Astronautical Engineering from Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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Former Visiting Researcher at SIGCOM, SnT, University of Luxembourg, contributing to integrated LEO-based navigation and communication systems and Navigation Engineer at Thales Alenia Space, Italy.
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Space blogger and organizing team member of New Space Economy conferences, space rendezvous sessions, and space art exhibitions ( at the Italian Space Agency and European Researchers' Nights). Mentor and technical team leader for multiple space-related projects. Active member of SGAC.
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First author of over 12+ peer-reviewed research papers.
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Director of Operations
Pratyush Dikshit
Doctoral Researcher in Cybersecurity at FINATRAX, SnT, University of Luxembourg. MS (by Research) in Cryptography from NIT Trichy, India.
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Former Research Assistant at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany.​ Former Senior Network Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, India.
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Expertise in EU Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, Cryptography, Machine Learning, DNS Privacy and Internet Resiliency; Exploring directions to LLM in security and privacy domain
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