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Charles Baltay is a prominent experimental physicist and observational cosmologist whose work has centered on the development and application of cutting-edge instrumentation for large-scale surveys of the universe. He has made significant contributions to the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a landmark Stage IV ground-based experiment designed to probe the nature of dark energy through baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and redshift-space distortions across millions of galaxies and quasars. His involvement spans the experiment's instrument design — a robotically-actuated, 5000-fiber multi-object spectrograph installed at the Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory — earning 234 citations for foundational design work published in 2016. Baltay also contributed to the development of DESI's innovative robotic fiber positioner system, capable of retargeting 5020 optical fibers to micron-level precision in under two minutes, a paper that has garnered 175 citations. His work on DESI's Fiber View Camera System and the landmark first BAO signal detection from early DESI operations further underscore his enduring role in pushing the boundaries of precision cosmology instrumentation and large-scale structure mapping.