Yuri Piro

Yuri Piro is a Materials Engineer at SpaceX, where they lead initiatives to reduce Starlink consumer kit costs and enhance performance. Previously, as a Senior Materials Engineer and Materials Engineer II at SpaceX, Yuri developed cost models that identified significant savings and led reliability evaluation campaigns for antenna materials. Their prior experience includes a role as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where they focused on novel materials for additive electronic packaging, and as an R&D Engineer at Heraeus Electronics, designing manufacturing procedures for electronic products. Yuri earned a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Bachelor of Science from Wake Forest University.