Andy Cheng is Chief Scientist for Space Science at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and he is co-lead investigator for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).
He previously served as Deputy Chief Scientist for Space Science in NASA's Science Mission Directorate, he was the Project Scientist for the NEAR mission, and he served as Orbital LIDAR scientist on the Joint Science Team for the Japanese Hayabusa mission to asteroid Itokawa. He also was a scientist on the Galileo mission, a co-investigator on the Cassini mission, and the principal investigator for the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the New Horizons mission. He joined APL in 1983, and founded the Planetary Exploration Group there in 2004.
Andrew earned a BS in Physics at Princeton University and a PhD in Physics at Columbia University.
