Jordi Puig-Suari

Jordi Puig-Suari is a professor and aerospace technology developer. He is the co-inventor of the CubeSat standard, and the co-founder of Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.
Education.
Puig-Suari obtained his BS and MS degrees from Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, in 1988 and 1990, respectively. He then completed PhD dissertation at Purdue with Professor James Longuski as thesis advisor.
Career.
From 1994 to 1998, he was an assistant professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Arizona State University. 
Puig-Suari is a professor at Cal Poly, and served as chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly from 2004 to 2008.
As of 2017, Puig-Suari had participated in 8 satellite development efforts and the launch of over 130 CubeSats worldwide. 
In 2011 Puig-Suari and Scott MacGillivray, former manager of nanosatellite programs for Boeing Phantom Works, established Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems in San Luis Obispo, California, to sell miniature avionics packages for small satellites, with the goal to increase the volume available for payloads.