MESA is built by investigators, staff, and students at the University of New Mexico, the University of Arizona, and UNC-Chapel Hill / RENCI.

Tyson L. Swetnam, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator · UNM

Arthur B. Maccabe, Ph.D.
Co-PI · Arizona site lead

David Ebert, Ph.D.
Co-PI · Chief AI & Data Science Officer · Arizona

Lei Cao, Ph.D.
Co-PI · Lakehouse lead · Arizona

Terrell Russell, Ph.D.
Co-PI · Data Mesh Lead · RENCI Site Lead

Alaina Martinez
Program Manager · UNM

Illyoung Choi, Ph.D.
Research Software Engineer · Arizona

Kory Draughn
Chief Technologist · RENCI

Alan King
Senior Software Developer · RENCI

Justin James
Applications Engineer · RENCI

Sarah Roberts
Research Software Engineer · Arizona

Tony Edgin
Data Curator · Arizona

Edwin Skidmore
Cloud Orchestration / Infrastructure · CyVerse

Greg Chism, Ph.D.
EOT Lead · Senior Personnel · Arizona

Jingdi Chen, Ph.D.
5G/6G Networking · Arizona

CK Chan, Ph.D.
Astronomer · Arizona

Wolfgang Jentner, Ph.D.
Human-Computer Interaction · Arizona

Junjia Guo
PhD Student · Arizona

Pengxin Wang
PhD Student · Arizona

Junyong Zhao
PhD Student · Arizona

Linan Zheng
PhD Student · Arizona