Dr. Alice Cocoros is a physicist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. She earned a BA in Astrophysics from Williams College and a Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy from Johns Hopkins University, studying experimental particle physics with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. At APL, she specializes in integrating instruments into missions. She serves as the LIDAR lead for the Mobility team on NASA’s Dragonfly mission, focused on implementing hazard detection for the rotorcraft on the surface of Titan. She also serves as the Payload Systems lead for Interstellar Probe, a study commissioned by NASA’s Heliophysics Science Mission Directorate to examine the engineering challenges that would shape a near-term pragmatic mission designed to study our habitable astrosphere by flying through heliosphere and out to the local interstellar medium. She enjoys bridging the boundaries between disciplines and bringing together a range of experts to work towards a common goal, and is passionate about diversity, inclusion, and mentoring.

Sarah Withee is an electrical engineer with experience in robotics in extreme environments, position, navigation, and timing (PNT), and communications systems. Her robotics experience includes incorporating radar data into the pipeline for a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm for a drone in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, developing a computer vision system for an underwater robot, and control board work for a soft starfish-inspired robot. Her timing work includes simulation of timing errors in satellite communications systems, utilizing a Kalman filter for high frequency oscillator synchronization, analyzing the effect of timing errors on radar systems, improving the accuracy of Allan deviation measurements for communication systems integration and test, and documenting the process used to create the UTC-APL timescale. In comms, she has integration and test experience on multiple spacecraft communications systems, including Europa Clipper, Dart, and University of Colorado Earth Escape Explorer. Prior to joining the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, she worked in higher education as a Japanese linguist. Her experience developing and teaching workshops informs her facilitation of LSIC telecons and similar events.

Dr. Angela Stickle is a planetary geologist with a background in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, magnetospheric physics, and impact processes on planetary surfaces. She received her bachelors degrees in Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering as well as Earth and Space Sciences from the University of Washington, and her Masters' degrees in Geology and Engineering and Ph.D in Geological Sciences from Brown University. She is currently a senior research scientist at the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory. Her work focuses on impact processes in the solar system, including the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter. She is a Co-Investigator on the Mini-RF radar and LRO-LAMP instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dragonfly mission, and leads the impact modeling team for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. Her research includes lunar surface evolution and maturation, experimental and numerical studies of damage formed by hypervelocity impacts, dynamic failure and fragmentation of materials, planetary defense, as well ascratering processes in icy targets. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to better understand impact phenomena, combining experiments (impact and dynamic failure) with numerical models and remote sensing to evaluate impact structures.