Dr Mark Cheung

Pronouns: he,him,his

Science Director & Deputy Director, Space & Astronomy

https://people.csiro.au/C/M/mark-cheung

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Biography

I manage teams of scientists, engineers and technicians at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. At CSIRO’s Space & Astronomy research unit, we push the boundaries of our understanding of the universe and environment on Earth with new instrumentation and scalable scientific compute. We are custodians of major research infrastructure, including the Australia Telescope National Facility, the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (NASA) and New Norcia Deep Space Ground Station (ESA).

My own research is at the nexus between astrophysics, remote sensing, HPC and AI/ML. My domain-transferable expertise includes GPU algorithm development, cloud computing, deep learning, computer vision, computational (magneto)hydrodynamics dynamics, computational radiative transfer, massively parallel computing, and sparse signal recovery.

After completing my undergraduate degree at the University of Adelaide, I moved to the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany to study magnetic activity on the Sun. Thereafter I moved to the US and worked at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center on a number of NASA missions, most notably the Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Achievements and Awards

2017-2017

Karen Harvey Prize
American Astronomical Society
2017-2017

Group Achievement Award (Team award)
NASA
2016-2016

RHG Exceptional Achievement for Science (Team award)
NASA
2007-2007

Otto Hahn Medal
Max Planck Society

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