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Scott Terek is a researcher specializing in astronomical data processing and time-domain survey instrumentation, with a particular focus on large-scale robotic sky survey systems. His most significant contribution lies in his work on the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a groundbreaking astronomical survey operating from the Palomar Observatory in California. ZTF employs a revolutionary 600-megapixel camera covering an extraordinary 47 square degree field of view, enabling it to scan the entire northern visible sky at unprecedented rates of 3,760 square degrees per hour. Terek's most impactful publication, "The Zwicky Transient Facility: Data Processing, Products, and Archive" (2018), has accumulated an impressive 1,173 citations, reflecting the fundamental importance of this infrastructure to the broader astronomical community. His work on ZTF's image processing pipeline has been central to enabling the facility to handle the roughly one petabyte of data the system generates, making the resulting data products accessible to researchers worldwide. His earlier conference proceedings and technical papers detailing ZTF image processing methodologies further demonstrate his sustained technical contributions to this project. For students interested in observational astronomy, survey science, or astronomical software pipelines, Terek's work represents essential reading in modern time-domain astronomy infrastructure.