Ethan Tsai
Project Manager at UCLA ELFIN CubeSat Project
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEthan Tsai is a project manager and space systems engineer with 14 years of experience leading multidisciplinary teams through all phases of satellite development and operations. As UCLA ELFIN CubeSat Project Manager he guided an in-house designed spacecraft from Phase B through operations, producing the highest science return among NASA/NSF CubeSats with 30+ peer-reviewed publications. He combines hands-on expertise in ADCS, attitude dynamics, embedded systems, thermal design, and systems engineering with practical innovations—such as a novel precession-maintenance maneuver and a 60% mass-reduced coil design validated by rigorous thermal and vibration testing. Comfortable both at the bench (Helmholtz coils, air bearings, degaussers, Wi‑Fi-enabled GSE) and in the control room, he also has a strong research background in magnetospheric physics with multiple first‑author papers. Based in Los Angeles and pursuing a PhD in Geophysics and Space Physics at UCLA, he bridges cutting‑edge research and operational execution to deliver measurable scientific impact.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at University of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (34)
twilio-api9
twilio9
api-documentation9
api8
heatmap7
letter6
mms6
react5
flux5
sms5
linux5
matplotlib5
python5
javascript5
css4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
etsai/api-snippets
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
apitwilioapi-documentationsnippetstwilio-api
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