Professor Dmitry Tsetserukou, head of the laboratory of intellectual and space robotics. Before Skoltech he led the laboratory at Toyohashi University in Japan. Dmitry's students launch successful startups (for example, Tsuru Robotics and Tyler), and the Reset team, annually recruited from the freshmen of the laboratory, has been winning the Russian qualifying stages of the prestigious EuroBot competition for several years in a row without leaving the top five teams in international finals (2019 year - 2 place).

Professor Alessandro Golkar, Technology Development Director and former Interim Director of the Space Center at Skoltech. From 2017 to 2019, he served as Vice President of Concurrent Engineering, member of the Leadership Team of Technology Planning and Roadmapping at the Airbus Corporate Technology Office. He is the author of 102 publications (70 Scopus indexed), including 29 peer-reviewed journal papers. He is an associate editor and reviewer for several journals such as the IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems, the INCOSE Systems Engineering journal, the AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Acta Astronautica, and others. His research looks at new ways for looking at complex systems architecting problems and developing research and demonstrators of novel spacecraft technology.