Team Members
Dan Werthimer
CASPER Principal Investigator
Don Backer
CASPER Co-Principal Investigator
Professor, UC Berkeley Astronomy Department
Pulsar instrumentation, reionization experiments.
Ben Blackman
Student, EECS
spectrometers, libraries, documentation
Daniel Chapman
Applications Engineer
pocket spectrometer, spectrometer backend software, ibob 100 Mbit and UDP
Henry Chen
Systems and Applications Engineer
vlbi mark5 dbe, spectrometers, toolflow, infrastructure, system libraries
Terry Filiba
Graduate Student, EECS
dsp libraries, reorder library, correlators
Gerry Harp
Astrophysicist, SETI Institute
Bill Hodge
Programmer Analyst, EECS
10 Gbe switches
David MacMahon
Applications Engineer, UC Berkeley Radio Astronomy Lab
correlators, ddc, fft libraries
Jason Manley
Visiting Graduate Student, KAT
correlators, tool flow, libraries
Peter McMahon
Visiting Graduate Student, KAT
pulsar machines, tool flow
Vinayak Nagpal
Graduate Student, EECS
beamformers, next generation tools, coarse and fine delay libraries
Aaron Parsons
Graduate Student, Astronomy
correlators, correlator library, fft, pfb, ddc, reorder libraries, reionization experiments
Andrew Siemion
Student, Astrophysics
spectrometer backend software, ibob 100 Mbit and UDP
Melvyn Wright
CASPER Co-Principal Investigator
Research Astronomer, UC Berkeley Radio Astronomy Lab
imaging/correlator algorithms, real-time imaging, allen telescope array
John Wawrzynek
CASPER Co-Principal Investigator
Professor, EECS
reconfigurable computing, RAMP Project