Dr. Doug Caldwell is a Co-Investigator on the Kepler Mission, the Instrument Scientist for the Kepler Mission. He works at the Kepler Science Office on the whole instrument/detector system.

Dr. Jon Jenkins is a Co-Investigator on the Kepler Mission and leads a software team of seven people for the Kepler Mission. Jenkin's team has developed the software to conduct the data analysis for the Kepler Mission. This is a fundamental function for mission success. Jenkin's team members are Hema Chandrasekaran, Sr. Scientific Programmer, Bruce Clarke, Scientific Programmer, Paul Gazis, Science Data Analyst, Jie Li, Scientific Programmer, Elisa Quintana, Scientific Programmer, Peter Tenenbaum, Scientific Programmer, and Joe Twicken, Sr. Scientific Programmer.

Dr. Jill Tarter, the Bernard M. Oliver Chair of the Center for SETI Research, is a member of the Kepler Mission Science Working Group. Searching for Earth-like planets is a step toward her ultimate goal of discovering extraterrestrial intelligent life.

Edna DeVore, Director of Education and Outreach, is a Co-Investigator on the Kepler Mission, and leads SETI Institute's work in Kepler Education and Outreach. Her education team works in partnership with the Lawrence Hall of Science at University of the Pacific and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to conduct projects and activities that support Kepler EPO. Edna's team members are Pamela Harman, Sue Lehr, Cynthia Ramseyer, and Brian Kim.

Laurance Doyle is a Principal Investigator at the SETI Institute. His responsibility is the detection of Earthlike (or larger) planets in orbit around the close double stars in the Kepler field of view-- stars that actually orbit across each other along our line of sight, which are known as "eclipsing binary systems." Planetary transits across these types of stars are more complex as the stars orbit each other behind the planet (that is, they "silhouette" the planet) so that the transit is not a simple dip in brightness but rather a complex series of dips. The determination of such "quasi-periodic" transit signals is also computationally extensive, so it is also planned to include the public in the discoveries by setting up a "planets@home" program where possible planetary candidate brightness variations can be tested be participants on their home computers.