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-The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been):
-
-  * Alex Afanasyev               <http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/afanasyev/index.html>
-  * Spyridon "Spyros" Mastorakis <http://cs.ucla.edu/~mastorakis/>
-  * Ilya Moiseenko               <http://ilyamoiseenko.com/>
-
-The following is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS,
-people who have reported bugs, submitted patches,and  implemented new features of ndnSIM:
-
-  * Jiangzhe Wang (Lucas)       <lucas@cs.ucla.edu>
-  * Cheng Yi                    <yic@email.arizona.edu>
-  * Saeid Montazeri             <saeid.montazeri@gmail.com>
-  * Xiaoke Jiang                <http://netarchlab.tsinghua.edu.cn/~shock/>
-  * Saran Tarnoi                <sarantarnoi@gmail.com>
-  * Hovaidi Ardestani Mohammad  <mohammad.hovaidi.ardestani@aalto.fi>
-  * Michael Sweatt              <https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsweatt>
-  * Wentao Shang                <http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~wentao/>
-  * Christian Kreuzberger       <christian.kreuzberger@itec.aau.at>
-  * Yuanzhi Gao                 <billmaxwell@ucla.edu>
-  * Mohammad Sabet              <mhasabet@gmail.com>
-  * Xinyu Ma                    <bitmxy@gmail.com>
-  * Chavoosh Ghasemi            <chghasemi@cs.arizona.edu>
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+# ndnSIM Authors
+
+The following lists maintainers, primary developers, and all much-appreciated contributors to ndnSIM in alphabetic order.
+The specific contributions of individual authors can be obtained from the git history of the [official ndnSIM repository](https://github.com/named-data/ndnSIM).
+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.
+
+* Jerald Paul Abraham <https://cs.arizona.edu/~jeraldabraham>
+* ***(Maintainer)*** Alexander Afanasyev <https://users.cs.fiu.edu/~afanasyev>
+* Syed Obaid Amin <http://obaidamin.weebly.com>
+* Hila Ben Abraham <https://sites.wustl.edu/hbabraham>
+* Chaoyi Bian <https://github.com/bcy>
+* Tai-Lin Chu <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/tai-lin-chu/55/5b2/669>
+* Chengyu Fan <https://github.com/chengyu>
+* Yuanzhi Gao <https://github.com/gaoyuanzhi>
+* Chavoosh Ghasemi <https://chavoosh.github.io>
+* Giulio Grassi <https://www.lip6.fr/actualite/personnes-fiche.php?ident=D1461>
+* Mohammad Hovaidi Ardestani
+* Yi Huang <https://www.linkedin.com/in/yihuang1991>
+* Xiaoke Jiang <http://netarchlab.tsinghua.edu.cn/~shock>
+* Zhaoning Kong <https://jonnykong.com>
+* Christian Kreuzberger <https://chkr.at>
+* Vince Lehman <https://vslehman.com>
+* Xinyu Ma <https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~xinyu.ma>
+* ***(Former Maintainer)*** Spyridon Mastorakis <https://sites.google.com/site/spyridonmastorakis>
+* ***(Former Maintainer)*** Ilya Moiseenko <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilya-moiseenko-52884317>
+* Saeid Montazeri
+* Eric Newberry <https://ericnewberry.com>
+* Davide Pesavento <https://github.com/Pesa>
+* José Quevedo <http://atnog.av.it.pt/members/jquevedo>
+* Felix Rabe <https://twitter.com/felixrabe>
+* Mohammad Sabet <https://github.com/Mr-Norrell>
+* Matteo Sammarco <https://www.linkedin.com/in/matteo-sammarco-9b544530>
+* Klaus Schneider <https://cs.arizona.edu/~klaus>
+* Wentao Shang <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~wentao>
+* Junxiao Shi <https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~shijunxiao>
+* Michael Sweatt <https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsweatt>
+* Saran Tarnoi <https://github.com/sarantarnoi>
+* Xuxiang Tian <https://github.com/db-ol>
+* Jiangzhe (Lucas) Wang <https://github.com/lucaswang>
+* Cheng Yi <https://cs.arizona.edu/~yic>
+* Yingdi Yu <https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~yingdi>
+* Haowei Yuan <https://github.com/hwyuan>
+* Hang Zhang <http://netlab.bit.edu.cn/z_hang>
+* Yu Zhang <https://github.com/YuZhang>
+* Zongyi Zhao <https://github.com/xinshengzzy>
+
+## Technical Advisors
+
+* Lixia Zhang <https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~lixia>