He's enthusiastic about the biosciences, math, software development, and helping people. He received a BS in Math from the University of Texas at Austin, where he helped research in-vivo cancer imaging, and genome assembly on supercomputing resources. He began a PhD in Biophysics at Berkeley, developing computational methods for protein function prediction, but he wandered off to industry. In his spare time he can be found riding bicycles and soldering broken lab equipment.