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Cecilia Aragon Named 2009 Woman of Vision
Hispanic Business magazine has honored Cecilia Aragon as one of 25 Women of Vision in 2009. As a staff scientist in the Computational Research Division at the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Aragon researches and develops collaborative visual interfaces to foster scientific insight. She is also a founding member of Latinas in Computing and is active in diversity and outreach programs at the Lab.
Before coming to the Lab in 2005, Aragon was a computer scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center and CEO of Top Flight Aviation, where she was an air show pilot, test pilot, and aerobatic champion. She received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California-Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology. She has authored or co-authored 30 peer-reviewed publications and over 100 other publications in computer science and astrophysics.