Join us as we continue our faculty talk series with our very own,Prof.David Soloveichik, as he shares his exciting journey –FromCambridge toAustin (via Pasadena)!He will share his research interests, dreams, and vision asa researcher working at the forefront of unconventional computing paradigms.He will also provide rich insights on his personal journey, and how he transitioned and succeeded across various stages in academia. 

Prof. David Soloveichik is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.Prior to joining Texas ECE, Dr. Soloveichik was a Fellow at the Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his undergraduate and Masters degree from Harvard University in Computer Science. He completed his PhD degree in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology, where his dissertation was awarded the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize for the best doctoral thesis.His scientific area of interest is Molecular Programming: the engineering of complex molecular systems for synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and bioengineering. He is also studying underlying theoretical connections between distributed computing and molecular information processing.Dr. Soloveichikwas the recipient of the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (Theory) from the Foresight Institute in 2012, and the Tulip Award from the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering in 2014.