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David Soloveichik is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship No.4. He previously worked at the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology at the University of California, San Francisco. His academic journey includes earning a Master's degree in Computer Science from Harvard University and completing his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology, which was awarded the Milton Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize for his dissertation. His research interests focus on Molecular Programming, including the engineering of complex molecular systems, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and bioengineering. He studies theoretical connections between distributed computing and molecular information processing. Dr. Soloveichik has won several prestigious awards such as 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, the Sloan Research Fellowship in 2020, and the Schmidt Sciences Polymath Award in 2023.
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