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-ndn-cxx authors
-===============
+# ndn-cxx Authors
 
-## The primary authors are (and/or have been):
+The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to ndn-cxx in alphabetic order.
+The specific contributions of individual authors can be obtained from the git history of the [official ndn-cxx repository](https://github.com/named-data/ndn-cxx).
+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.
 
-* Alexander Afanasyev   <http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/index.html>
-* Yingdi Yu             <http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~yingdi/>
-* Junxiao Shi           <http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/shijunxiao/>
-* Jeff Thompson         <jefft0@remap.ucla.edu>
-* Zhenkai Zhu           <http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~zhenkai/>
+* Sepehr Abdous <https://sepehrabdous.github.io>
+* ***(Maintainer)*** Alexander Afanasyev <https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev>
+* Syed Obaid Amin <http://obaidamin.weebly.com>
+* Hila Ben Abraham <https://sites.wustl.edu/hbabraham>
+* Shuo Chen <https://github.com/chenatu>
+* Muktadir R. Chowdhury <https://github.com/alvyC>
+* Damian Coomes <https://github.com/dmcoomes>
+* Stephanie DiBenedetto
+* Qiuhan Ding <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~qiuhanding>
+* Chengyu Fan <https://github.com/chengyu>
+* Laqin Fan <https://github.com/laqinfan>
+* Ashlesh Gawande <https://www.linkedin.com/in/agawande>
+* Chavoosh Ghasemi <https://chavoosh.github.io>
+* Mathias Gibbens <https://calenhad.com>
+* Nick Gordon <https://github.com/gorgonical>
+* Xiaoke Jiang <http://netarchlab.tsinghua.edu.cn/~shock>
+* Marcin Juszkiewicz <https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl>
+* Luca Keidel <https://lucakeidel.de>
+* Spencer Lee <https://wwsw.linkedin.com/in/spenlee>
+* Vince Lehman <http://vslehman.com>
+* Yanbiao Li <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/yanbiao-li/24/7a1/4ba>
+* Teng Liang <https://cs.arizona.edu/~philoliang>
+* Weiwei Liu <https://www.linkedin.com/in/weiweiliu10>
+* Tianxing Ma <https://github.com/matianxing1992>
+* Xingyu Ma <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/xingyu-ma/1a/384/5a8>
+* Spyridon Mastorakis <https://sites.google.com/site/spyridonmastorakis>
+* Ernest McCracken <https://github.com/emccrckn>
+* Stephen McQuistin <https://smcquistin.uk>
+* Ilya Moiseenko <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilya-moiseenko-52884317>
+* Alex Nano <http://alexnano.net>
+* Eric Newberry <https://ericnewberry.com>
+* Arthi Padmanabhan <https://github.com/arthipadmanabhan>
+* Ju Pan <https://cs-jupan.com>
+* João Pereira <http://website.jpereira.co.uk>
+* Davide Pesavento <https://github.com/Pesa>
+* José Quevedo <http://atnog.av.it.pt/members/jquevedo>
+* Md Ashiqur Rahman <https://ashiqrahman.com>
+* Niv Sardi <http://core.evilgiggle.com>
+* Wentao Shang <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~wentao>
+* Susmit Shannigrahi <https://susm.it>
+* Junxiao Shi <https://cs.arizona.edu/~shijunxiao>
+* Michael Sweatt <https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsweatt>
+* Jiewen Tan <https://github.com/alanwaketan>
+* ***(Former Maintainer)*** Jeff Thompson <https://remap.ucla.edu/jeff-thompson>
+* Yukai Tu <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~yukai>
+* Yingdi Yu <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~yingdi>
+* Zhiyi Zhang <https://zhiyi-zhang.com>
+* Zhenkai Zhu <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~zhenkai>
 
-## All project authors and contributors
+## Technical Advisors
 
-The following is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS,
-people who have reported bugs, submitted patches, and implemented new features
-in the library:
-
-* Wentao Shang          <http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~wentao/>
-* Steve DiBenedetto     <http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dibenede/>
-* Davide Pesavento      <https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidepesavento>
-* Syed Obaid Amin       <http://obaidamin.weebly.com/>
-* Shuo Chen             <chenatu2006@gmail.com>
-* Hila Ben Abraham      <http://research.engineering.wustl.edu/~abrahamh/>
-* Xingyu Ma             <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/xingyu-ma/1a/384/5a8>
-* Michael Sweatt        <https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsweatt>
-* Lixia Zhang           <http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lixia/home.html>
-* Jeff Burke            <http://remap.ucla.edu/jburke/>
-* Xiaoke Jiang          <http://netarchlab.tsinghua.edu.cn/~shock/>
-* Jiewen Tan            <alanwake@ucla.edu>
-* Vince Lehman          <http://vslehman.com>
-* Mathias Gibbens       <gibmat@cs.arizona.edu>
-* Chengyu Fan           <chengyu@cs.colostate.edu>
-* Qiuhan Ding           <http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~qiuhanding/>
-* Spyridon Mastorakis   <http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/>
-* Eric Newberry         <http://cs.arizona.edu/~enewberry/>
-* João Pereira          <http://website.jpereira.co.uk>
-* Mickey Sweatt         <https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsweatt>
-* Yanbiao Li            <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/yanbiao-li/24/7a1/4ba>
-* Marcin Juszkiewicz    <http://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/>
-* Susmit Shannigrahi    <https://www.linkedin.com/in/susmit-shannigrahi-90433b8>
-* José Quevedo          <http://atnog.av.it.pt/members/jquevedo>
-* Zhiyi Zhang           <http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~zhiyi/>
-* Chavoosh Ghasemi      <https://www.linkedin.com/in/chavoosh-ghasemi-421327117/>
+* Jeff Burke <https://jeff-burke.com>
+* Beichuan Zhang <https://cs.arizona.edu/~bzhang>
+* Lixia Zhang <https://cs.ucla.edu/~lixia>