B.S., University of Chicago, 1991; Ph.D., Caltech, 1998. Assistant Professor, 1999-2006; Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computation and Neural Systems, 2006-07; Associate Professor, 2007-10; Professor, 2010-.

Theoretical and experimental research in DNA computation, DNA nanotechnology, and molecular programming including: Algorithmic self-assembly In vitro biochemical circuits and systems Enzyme-free DNA strand displacement circuits DNA-based molecular robotics Molecular self-replicating systems and evolution Multistranded DNA and RNA interaction kinetics Nucleic acid system specification and sequence design Fault-tolerant molecular computing

Biological Engineering; Systems Biology; Evolutionary and Organismal Biology