Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
bchang [at] college [dot] harvard [dot] edu
Led 6 SW devs for NASA High Altitude Student Platform on downlink process (parsing, plot, etc)/sensor integration Construct high-res spectroscopy + coronagraph imaging payloads for NASA stratosphere balloons; networked w/local astronomers & Caltech/UC Berkeley researchers for final product feedback Partnered with JPL on photonics addition to HASP '26 mission Travel to NASA site (Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility) in Palestine, TX in July '26 for integration & testing pre-launch COCAST works with NASA on High Altitude Student Platform (stratosphere balloon) and RockSat-X (two-stage sounding rocket), developing Sol-Seeker/SpectraSolis (high-res spectroscopy, coronagraph diffraction grating) and CESARS (radiation testing) NASA HASP 3x Payload Selectee, Paid Intern $1.5k stipend from NASA MOSAICS SMD grant
preseed, betatesting; launching late '26 founding engineer pos. open -- email CV to [email protected]
Aerospace-edu nonprofit, reached 262k+ students across 5 countries Design 1st standalone CA space curriculum, distribute open-source educator resources across state; film/edit instruction videos, coordinate 25+ camps yearly; wrote "Space Ranger's Guide" textbooks, "Space ABCs"; foster partnerships w/industry leaders like Celestron; train 80+ int'l leaders weekly; hand-packed kits, created 35+ hands-on experiments Raised $26k ($5k in-kind) since inception (Dragon Challenge, individual investors, grants) Unconventional space-edu approach resulted in 98% STEM confidence among participants Featured CBS evening news, Kelly Clarkson Show, Spectrum News
2025-26: NASA HASP Science Lead (Princip. Scientist) 2024-25: NASA HASP Software Lead 2023-24: NASA HASP Software Engineer 2022-23: GLEE Mechanical/Electrical Engineer, LunaSat Development Team
Selected for team working to foster nationwide community of young writers; publish astrophysics/politics op-eds for 10k+ monthly readers; collaborate w/full-time journalists & 20+ board members at weekly meetings; report varying generational viewpoints by co-hosting "Is This Thing On?" LA Times edu-policy podcast & "Letter to the President" column