Peter T Poon is a scientist at the

Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States. Founded in 1936 by Cali ...

(JPL) of the

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(Caltech), operating for

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. He had spent 35 plus years in science and space technology. A graduate of

Hong Kong University The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of ...

majoring in

Physics Physics is the scientific study of matter, its Elementary particle, fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge whi ...

and

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

, in 1965, Poon completed his PhD degree at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

. He subsequently also pursued advanced training in the Advanced Project Management Program at

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. Poon made significant contributions towards mission success in NASA projects including Voyager Interstellar Mission to the outer planets and Cassini-Huygens Mission to

Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant, with an average radius of about 9 times that of Earth. It has an eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 tim ...

and Titan. He was a

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manager on the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit & Opportunity, Mars Odyssey,

Mars Global Surveyor ''Mars Global Surveyor'' (MGS) was an American Robotic spacecraft, robotic space probe developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It launched November 1996 and collected data from 1997 to 2006. MGS was a global mapping mission that examined ...

, Ulysses Mission to the Sun and joint projects with the French and German Space Operations Center. In 2009, Poon is recognized by the

as a Distinguished Science Alumnus during the 70th anniversary celebration of Hong Kong U Science Faculty. He is profiled in

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in America, Marquis Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering and Chinese American Who's Who in USA.

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