Cynthia Cheung is a retired astrophysicist with a PhD from the University of Maryland and an AB from the University of California, Berkeley, both in astronomy. She has worked for 35 years in various roles for NASA space missions. She has significant experience in space science mission operations and data management, data archive interoperability, applied information technology, robotics and intelligent control systems, and modeling and simulation. Her research interests included high energy astrophysics, stellar evolution, and nucleosynthesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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