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Skyler Chan builds lunar construction and habitat systems as founder and CEO of GRU Space. Previously developed vehicle-software testing at Tesla and contributed embedded electronics and microgravity-detection software to Berkeley’s SpaceCAL payload, which flew in space in June 2024.
Founder & CEO
Leads lunar construction and habitat development at GRU Space, starting with manufacturing products from lunar surface materials.
Founder and President
Founded a student organization designing, testing and building autonomous robots for habitats beyond Earth.
Software Engineer Intern
Built automated high-voltage and battery-test evaluation infrastructure for Cybertruck chassis and powertrain systems, using Python, Pytest, Jenkins and Docker.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Researched reinforcement learning for collision-avoidance drone applications and served as a drone pilot.
SpaceCAL Undergraduate Researcher
Built microgravity-detection software, sensors and embedded electronics for the SpaceCAL 3D-printing payload flown on Virgin Galactic in June 2024.
Venture Scout
Scouted startup investments.
Avionics and Simulations Engineer
Worked on avionics and simulations for a student space-engineering organization.
Undergraduate Researcher
Researched graph neural networks for identifying electron recoil in the COSI space telescope in Andreas Zoglauer’s group.
Student Researcher
Worked in NASA CUBES Systems Design and Integration and developed a Python library for Martian habitats in the Arkin Lab.
Software Engineer
Built and debugged a six-axis robotic bartender using ROS and Python; integrated computer-vision models for bottle recognition and demonstrated the robot.
NewSpace Fellow, Redwire Space Team
Researched in-space manufacturing alongside Redwire Space engineers through the NewSpace fellowship.
Founder & CEO
Founded a hiring marketplace during a gap year before Berkeley.
Bachelors, Electrical
Bachelors, Electrical
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