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Team
A number of engineers, artists, educators, students and business developers
have made valuable contributions to Build-It-Yourself.

John Galinato - Project Manager
Cornell, BEE and MEE, 1968
Hobbies: building, tennis and the blues guitar
Heroes: Ali, Don Quixote, Popeye
Favorite Quote: "You can't win if you don't bet."
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Liu Huan - Project Manager
MIT, BS and MS Computer Science / EE, 2011
Hobbies: I love robots!
Heroes: Yao Ming, Fox Mulder, Richard P. Feynman, 
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Jamie Mckiernan - Graphic Designer
Mass Art, BFA Animation & Illustration, 2009
Hobbies: Animation, gaming, watching movies from the 40's
Heroes: Bill Watterson, Fred Astaire, Pixar Animation
Favorite Quote: "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." ~ Willy Wonka
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Will Chou - Platform Developer
Cornell, BS and MS, Computer Science, 2009
Hobbies: Bboying (breakdancing), volleyball, and computer games when I have the time (never).
Heroes: My dad
Favorite Quote: "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell
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Stephen Wong  - Workshop Leader / Developer
Cornell BS Elec Engr, 2011
Hobbies: Building things (working on Parkour'ing)
Heroes:
Dad, Steve Jobs, Oda Eiichiro
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Anna Polonyi - Workshop Leader / Writer
Harvard, BA History & Literature, 2010
Hobbies: Photography, making things for other people
Least Favorite Course: Latin
Skills Wanted: Flying
Heroes: The Little Prince, Baron Munchausen, Shel Silverstein
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Hearson Zhang - Platform Development
Purdue, BS Computer Science, 2012
Hobbies: Computers, Robots, Math, Flute and Guitar
Heroes: KITT and Alan Turing
Favorite Quote: "Let's do it the engineer's way!"
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Jacob Bredthauer
MIT, BS Math & Computer Science,  2011
Hobbies: MIT a capella group
Heroes: My Parents; Tom Osborne
Favorite TV shows: Lost, 24, Heroes
Yuan Dong  - Hardware/Software Developer
Cornell, MEE,  2010
Northern Illinois, MS Mathematics, 2009
Hobbies:  Piano, Photograph, Cooking, Badminton
Heroes:  My family, regular hard working people
Trevor Shannon - Workshop Leader / Developer
MIT, BS Mech Engr, 2011 
Hobbies: Build stuff, take pictures
Heroes: David Wallace, Matthias Wandel
Favorite Quote: "We also don't know the universe wasn't created yesterday with all our memories in tack." 
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