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 # Acknowledgements
 
-We would like to acknowledge [Jimmy Paulos](https://github.com/jpaulos) who wrote the majority of the underlying engine for \textit{RotorPy}, and the teaching assistants who contributed code to the initial version of this simulator, especially [Dan Mox](https://github.com/danmox), [Laura Jarin-Lipschitz](https://github.com/ljarin), [Rebecca Li](https://github.com/rebeccali), [Shane Rozen-Levy](https://github.com/ShaneRozenLevy), [Xu Liu](https://github.com/XuRobotics), [Yuezhan Tao](https://github.com/tyuezhan), [Yu-Ming Chen](https://github.com/yminchen), and [Fernando Cladera](https://github.com/fcladera). 
+We would like to acknowledge [Jimmy Paulos](https://github.com/jpaulos) who wrote the majority of the underlying engine for RotorPy, and the teaching assistants who contributed code to the initial version of this simulator, especially [Dan Mox](https://github.com/danmox), [Laura Jarin-Lipschitz](https://github.com/ljarin), [Rebecca Li](https://github.com/rebeccali), [Shane Rozen-Levy](https://github.com/ShaneRozenLevy), [Xu Liu](https://github.com/XuRobotics), [Yuezhan Tao](https://github.com/tyuezhan), [Yu-Ming Chen](https://github.com/yminchen), and [Fernando Cladera](https://github.com/fcladera).