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

Mikhail Denissenya, Postdoctoral researcher

Aliya Nurmukhambetova, Postdoctoral researcher (on leave)

Toktarkhan Komesh, Postdoctoral researcher

Dilda Berdikhan, postdoctoral scholar

Zhanat Maksut, researcher

Dina Valeeva, project manager

Sultan Abylkairov, PhD student

Diana Kulubayeva, PhD student

Nurzhan Shaimoldin, engineer (on leave)

Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev

Postdoctoral researcher (2019-2023)

Current position: Assistant Professor, Heriot Watt University in Aktobe

Zhanel Tagayeva, project manager (2017-2023)

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

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