Q:Read the bio below and try to give details on robert dirks 's: - fields - thesis year - birth date - alt - caption - death date - spouse - name - death place - birth place - thesis url - death cause - workplaces - education - thesis title - nationality - residence - academic advisors - children - image Bio: robert dirks -lrb- may 29 , 1978 -- february 3 , 2015 -rrb- was an american chemist known for his theoretical and experimental work in dna nanotechnology . born in thailand to a thai chinese mother and american father , he moved to spokane , washington at a young age . dirks was the first graduate student in niles pierce 's research group at the california institute of technology , where his dissertation work was on algorithms and computational tools to analyze nucleic acid thermodynamics and predict their structure . he also performed experimental work developing a biochemical chain reaction to self-assemble nucleic acid devices . dirks later worked at d. e. shaw research on algorithms for protein folding that could be used to design new pharmaceuticals . in february 2015 , dirks died in the valhalla train crash , the deadliest accident in the history of metro-north railroad . an award for early-career achievement in molecular programming research was established in his honor .
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- fields is computational chemistry , dna nanotechnology- thesis year is 2005- birth date is 29 may 1978- alt is a from the neck up , where part of his gray man t-shirt is visible . there are green leaves behind him with short black hair and glasses seen- caption is dirks from a 2014 family portrait- death date is 03 february 2015- spouse is christine ueda- name is robert dirks- death place is valhalla , new york , united states- birth place is bangkok , thailand- thesis url is http://thesis.library.caltech.edu/1998/- death cause is valhalla train crash- workplaces is caltech , d. e. shaw research- education is wabash , 2005 college , a.b. , 2000 caltech , ph.d.- thesis title is analysis devices , design , and construction of nucleic acid- nationality is chinese american , thai american- residence is chappaqua , new york- academic advisors is niles pierce- children is 2- image is robert dirks.jpg