People

George Smoot, Founder and Director

Kanat Baigarin, Advisor to NU President

Bruce Grossan, Head of observation and instrumentation programs

Ernazar Abdikamalov, Associate Director

Michael Good, Associate Professor of Physics

Mehdi Shafiee, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Toktarkhan Komesh
Senior Researcher

Mikhail Denissenya, Postdoctoral researcher

Dilda Berdikhan
Postdoctoral researcher

Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev

Instructor in the Physics Department

Zhanat Maksut, researcher

Dina Valeeva, project manager

Sultan Abylkairov, PhD student

Diana Kulubayeva, PhD student

Nurzhan Shaimoldin, engineer (on leave)

Aliya Nurmukhambetova, Postdoctoral researcher (on leave)

Ayan Mitra. Current position: CAPS Fellow, NCSA and UIUC

Zhanel Tagayeva, project manager (2017-2023)

Eric Linder, Head of theory and data analysis division (2017-2024)