Dr. David Soloveichik

Associate Professor

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Biography

David Soloveichik is an Associate Professor at the Chandra Family Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, holding the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship No.4. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Harvard University and completed his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology, where his dissertation was awarded the Milton Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize. His research interests focus on Molecular Programming, which involves engineering complex molecular systems within the fields of synthetic biology and nanotechnology. He studies the theoretical connections between distributed computing and molecular information processing. Soloveichik has received several prestigious awards including the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology from the Foresight Institute in 2012, the Tulip Award from the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering in 2014, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2016, and the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2020. In 2023, he was honored with the Schmidt Science Polymath Award.

Research Interests

Experience

Associate Professor

— Present

Chandra Family Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX

Teaching and conducting research in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Fellow

— Present

Center for Systems Synthetic Biology, University of California, San Francisco • San Francisco, CA

Conducted research in synthetic biology.

Awards

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Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (Theory)

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Tulip Award

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National Science Foundation CAREER Award

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Sloan Research Fellowship

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Schmidt Science Polymath Award

Requirements for University of Texas at Austin

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
GRE General
TOEFL
Total
Required:79
IELTS
Overall
Required:6.5
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution
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Specialization Notes

General requirements for the Graduate School at UT Austin apply to all programs unless otherwise specified.