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-ChronoSync authors
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+# ChronoSync Authors
-- Zhenkai Zhu <http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~zhenkai/>
-- Alexander Afanasyev <http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/index.html>
-- Chaoyi Bian <bcy@pku.edu.cn>
-- Yingdi Yu <http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~yingdi/web/index.html>
-- Sonu Mishra <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishrasonu>
+The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to ChronoSync in alphabetic order.
+The specific contributions of individual authors can be obtained from the git history of the [official ChronoSync repository](https://github.com/named-data/ChronoSync).
+If you would like to become a contributor to the official repository, please follow the recommendations in https://github.com/named-data/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md.
+
+* ***(Maintainer)*** Alexander Afanasyev <https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev>
+* Chaoyi Bian <https://github.com/bcy>
+* Qiuhan Ding <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~qiuhanding>
+* Ashlesh Gawande <https://www.linkedin.com/in/agawande>
+* Nick Gordon <https://github.com/gorgonical>
+* Sonu Mishra <https://sites.google.com/site/sonukrmishra93>
+* Eric Newberry <https://ericnewberry.com>
+* Davide Pesavento <https://github.com/Pesa>
+* Junxiao Shi <https://cs.arizona.edu/~shijunxiao>
+* Yingdi Yu <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~yingdi>
+* ***(Former Maintainer)*** Zhenkai Zhu <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~zhenkai>