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-NLSR Authors
-============
+# NLSR Authors
-NLSR is an open source project includes contributions from the members of the
-[NDN project team](http://named-data.net/project/participants/).
+The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to NLSR in alphabetic order.
+The specific contributions of individual authors can be obtained from the git history of the [official NLSR repository](https://github.com/named-data/NLSR).
+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.
-## Project co-leads:
+* Alexander Afanasyev <https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev>
+* Adam Alyyan <https://github.com/a64adam>
+* Syed Obaid Amin <http://obaidamin.weebly.com/>
+* Pedro David Arjona Villicaña <https://github.com/david-arjona>
+* Muktadir R. Chowdhury <https://github.com/alvyC>
+* Damian Coomes <https://github.com/dmcoomes>
+* ***(Maintainer)*** Saurab Dulal <https://dulalsaurab.github.io>
+* Laqin Fan <https://github.com/laqinfan>
+* Simon Fayer <https://github.com/sfayer>
+* ***(Former Maintainer)*** Ashlesh Gawande <https://www.linkedin.com/in/agawande>
+* ***(Former Maintainer)*** Nicholas Gordon <https://github.com/gorgonical>
+* ***(Former Maintainer)*** A. K. M. Mahmudul Hoque <https://sites.google.com/site/akmhoque/home>
+* ***(Former Maintainer)*** Vince Lehman <http://vslehman.com>
+* Tianxing Ma <https://github.com/matianxing1992>
+* Spyridon Mastorakis <https://sites.google.com/site/spyridonmastorakis>
+* Eric Newberry <https://ericnewberry.com>
+* João Pereira <http://website.jpereira.co.uk>
+* Davide Pesavento <https://github.com/Pesa>
+* Md Ashiqur Rahman <https://ashiqrahman.com>
+* Junxiao Shi <https://cs.arizona.edu/~shijunxiao>
+* Salvatore Signorello <https://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/people/salvatore_signorello>
+* Jiewen Tan <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiewentan>
+* Alejandro Gil Torres <https://github.com/gltorres>
+* Ryan Wickman <http://rwickman.github.io>
+* Yingdi Yu <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~yingdi>
+* Minsheng Zhang <https://www.linkedin.com/in/minsheng-zhang-032023a1>
-* Ashlesh Gawande <https://www.linkedin.com/in/agawande>
-* Saurab Dulal <https://dulalsaurab.github.io>
+## Technical Advisors
-## Past project leads:
-
-* A K M Mahmudul Hoque <https://sites.google.com/site/akmhoque/home>
-* Vince Lehman <http://vslehman.com>
-* Nicholas Gordon <nmgordon@memphis.edu>
-
-## Technical advisors:
-
-* Lan Wang <http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~lanwang/>
-* Beichuan Zhang <http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~bzhang/>
-* Lixia Zhang <http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lixia/>
-
-
-## All project authors, contributors and their affiliations:
-
-* The University of Memphis
-
- * A K M Mahmudul Hoque <https://sites.google.com/site/akmhoque/home>
- * Ashlesh Gawande <https://www.linkedin.com/in/agawande>
- * Minsheng Zhang <https://www.linkedin.com/in/minsheng-zhang-032023a1>
- * Syed Obaid Amin <http://obaidamin.weebly.com/>
- * Vince Lehman <http://vslehman.com>
- * Muktadir R Chowdhury <mrchwdhr@memphis.edu>
- * Nicholas Gordon <nmgordon@memphis.edu>
- * Laqin Fan <lfan1@memphis.edu>
- * Damian Coomes <dmcoomes@memphis.edu>
- * Saurab Dulal <sdulal@memphis.edu>
-
-* University of California, Los Angeles
-
- * Yingdi Yu <http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~yingdi/web/index.html>
- * Alexander Afanasyev <http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/index.html>
- * Spyridon Mastorakis <http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/>
- * Jiewen Tan <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiewentan>
-
-* Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP)
-
- * Pedro David Arjona Villicaña <david.arjona@uaslp.mx>
-
-* Individual Contributor(s)
-
- * Junxiao Shi <https://www.linkedin.com/in/shijunxiao>
- * Davide Pesavento <https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidepesavento>
-
-## Queries about NLSR
-
-Any question related to NLSR should be directed to Ashlesh Gawande (agawande@memphis.edu), Saurab Dulal (sdulal@memphis.edu),
-Muktadir R Chowdhury (mrchwdhr@memphis.edu).
+* Lan Wang <http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~lanwang>
+* Beichuan Zhang <https://cs.arizona.edu/~bzhang>
+* Lixia Zhang <https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~lixia>