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Brian Cherinka is a key architect of the cyberinfrastructure powering the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), one of the most influential astronomical surveys in history. His research centers on building and maintaining the complex data systems, pipelines, and software frameworks that enable large-scale, multi-epoch spectroscopic surveys. Cherinka’s major contribution is his foundational role in SDSS-V, which is pioneering “panoptic spectroscopy”—the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. He has been instrumental in designing the cyberinfrastructure that allows this ambitious project to map the Milky Way’s stellar evolution, probe the interstellar medium, and track supermassive black hole growth across cosmic time. His work on the SDSS cyberinfrastructure (2022) and the two landmark SDSS-V papers (2025, with 25 and 3 citations) demonstrate his impact in enabling thousands of astronomers to access and analyze unprecedented spectroscopic datasets. Cherinka’s efforts ensure that SDSS remains a cornerstone of modern astrophysics, providing the digital backbone for discoveries that shape our understanding of the universe.