Craig Hardgrove is an Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He received his B.S. in Physics from Georgia Tech, and his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Tennessee. Craig served as a postdoctoral research scientist at both Stony Brook University and Arizona State University prior to his appointment as an Assistant Professor at ASU. He has also worked spacecraft operations for a number of interplanetary missions, including the Mars Spirit and Opportunity rover, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the Mars Context Camera (CTX). Craig's research focuses on determining water abundances on planetary surfaces, primarily using neutron spectroscopy. Craig is also a participating scientist on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity's Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument to determine hydrogen and other volatile abundances throughout Curiosity's traverse to Mt. Sharp. Craig is an advocate for the development of small interplanetary spacecraft with highly focused science missions, and is also working on several funded NASA projects to develop new types of neutron and gamma-ray spectrometers for future planetary science missions.

Dr. Jim Bell is a Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He received his B.S. in Planetary Science and Aeronautics from Caltech, his M.S. and Ph.D. in Geology & Geophysics from the University of Hawaii, and served as a National Research Council postdoctoral research fellow at NASA's Ames Research Center. Jim's research group primarily focuses on the geology, geochemistry, and mineralogy of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets using data obtained from telescopes and spacecraft missions.

Igor is a co-founder of AZ Space Technologies LLC, a company specializing in design and manufacture of instrument and spacecraft avionics and software for space applications. He has 28 years of experience in embedded control system design for a variety of applications, including spacecraft and terrestrial control systems, power electronics, and motion control. Igor’s particular area of expertise is all aspects of spacecraft Guidance Navigation and Control (GN&C) system development from initial study phases through post-launch support, including design, analysis, component specification, algorithm implementation, testing, subsystem integration, and on-orbit checkout and commissioning. Igor also has extensive experience in spacecraft GPS receiver algorithms, software, and testing.