NAME:  Leroy Chiao (Ph.D)
       Astronaut Candidate (Mission Specialist)
 
BIRTHPLACE AND DATE:  Born August 28, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
but considers Danville, California, to be his hometown.  His parents,
Mr. & Mrs. Tsu Tao Chiao, reside in Fairfield, California.
 
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:  Black hair; brown eyes; 5 feet 8 inches; 165
pounds.
 
EDUCATION:  Graduated from Monte Vista High School, Danville,
California, in 1978; received a bachelor of science degree in Chemical
Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1983, and
a master of science degree and a doctorate in Chemical Engineering
from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1985 and 1987,
respectively.
 
MARITAL STATUS:  Single.
 
RECREATIONAL INTERESTS:  He enjoys flying, basketball, football, and
skiing.
 
ORGANIZATIONS:  Member of the American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM), and the Society for the Advancement of Material and
Process Engineering (SAMPE).
 
SPECIAL HONORS:  Invited to give technical seminars on Honeycomb
Material and Bonded Panels, and Cure Modeling of Aerospace Composite
Materials, at the Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, and at
the Changsha Institute of Technology, 5th Department, in the Peoples
Republic of China.  Invited contributor to the International
Encyclopedia of Composite Materials.
 
EXPERIENCE:  Dr. Chiao graduated in 1987 from the University of
California at Santa Barbara, and joined the Hexcel Corporation in
Dublin, California.  He worked for Hexcel until 1989, during which
time he was involved in process and manufacturing engineering research
on advanced aerospace materials; worked on a joint NASA-JPL/Hexcel
project to develop a practical, optically correct, precision segment
reflector, made entirely of advanced polymer composite materials, for
future space telescopes; as well as working on cure modeling and
finite element analysis.  In January of 1989 Dr. Chiao joined the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, where
he was involved in processing research for fabrication of
filament-wound and thick-section aerospace composites.  Dr. Chiao also
developed and demonstrated a mechanistic cure model for graphite
fiber/epoxy composite material.
 
Selected by NASA in January 1990, Dr. Chiao became an Astronaut in
July 1991.  He is qualified for assignment as a mission specialist on
future Space Shuttle flight crews, and is currently assigned to Space
Shuttle flight software verification in the Shuttle Avionics
Integration Laboratory (SAIL).
 
AUGUST 1991