Dr. David Soloveichik

Biography

David Soloveichik is an Associate Professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship No. 4. Prior to joining Texas ECE, he was a Fellow at the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his undergraduate and Master’s degree in Computer Science from Harvard University, followed by a PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology, where his doctoral dissertation was awarded the Milton Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize. His research interests focus on Molecular Programming, which includes engineering complex molecular systems within synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and bioengineering. He studies the underlying theoretical connections between distributed computing and molecular information processing. He has received several prestigious awards including the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (Theory) 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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