David Jones is an Assistant Astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy. His research interests include the interface of supernovae and their host galaxies, as well as measuring cosmic expansion with Type Ia supernovae. David is the original co-creator of Blast (with Peter McGill) and currently its lead software developer.

Gautham Narayan is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are at the intersection of multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics, cosmology, statistics and data science. He works on wide-field surveys developing machine learning methods for real-time detection and classification of variable and transient sources, Bayesian models for cosmological inference with type Ia supernovae, understanding the host galaxies of transients, and establishing an all-sky network of faint spectrophotometric standards for Rubin/LSST and future projects.

Dhvanil Desai is PhD candidate in Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa. His research interests are observational and time-domain astrophysics, in broad population statistics and detailed physics of transient phenomena, responsible for chemical enrichment of the universe.

Andrew Manning is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). His interests include developing, deploying, and maintaining research software and cyberinfrastructure for small to large research collaborations. He co-develops the Blast application with David and is responsible for the design, deployment, and administration of the public service at https://blast.scimma.org.

Dr. Nicole Drakos is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. Her research focuses on computational astrophysics, dark matter structure and galaxy formation.

Abhiram Manuguri is an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is currently pursuing majors in Mathematics, Computer Science and Astronomy. Under the SPIN program hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), he works with Andrew developing the Blast application and improving the public deployment infrastructure.

Miranda Y. Kong is a PhD student at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her recent research focuses on sub-mm galaxies, Green Pea galaxies, and supernova feedback during the cosmic epoch of reionization.

Inoa Martinez is an Undergraduate at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, currently pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Astrophysics. Inoa led the design of this Zooniverse project, his first major project under the Hi-CAT team. In the future he hopes to study the early universe.

Rishabh Bezbarua is an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is currently pursuing a major in Computer Science. Under the SPIN program hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), he works with Andrew to develop the Blast application and improve the public deployment infrastructure.