Dr. Yusra AlSayyad
Yusra AlSayyad is the Deputy Associate Director of the Data Management subsystem for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, where she coordinates for the Science Pipelines and Campaign Management teams, and still writes Python daily. She is a researcher at Princeton University and has been part of Rubin’s data management effort since 2012. She holds a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Washington and a master’s in computer science. Before grad school, she worked in information management for a consulting firm specializing in turnaround and restructuring. With Rubin soon entering survey operations, she brings lessons from over a decade of building scientific Python infrastructure for an observatory, astronomers, and the broader research community.
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Yusra AlSayyad is the Deputy Associate Director of the Data Management subsystem for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, where she coordinates for the Science Pipelines and Campaign Management teams, and still writes Python daily. She is a researcher at Princeton University and has been part of Rubin’s data management effort since 2012. She holds a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Washington and a master’s in computer science. Before grad school, she worked in information management for a consulting firm specializing in turnaround and restructuring. With Rubin soon entering survey operations, she brings lessons from over a decade of building scientific Python infrastructure for an observatory, astronomers, and the broader research community.