Austin Che
Stanford University , 2001
M.S. , Computer Science
Boston
About
Austin is a founder of Ginkgo Bioworks, which seeks to make it easier to engineer biology. Prior to Ginkgo, he received undergraduate degrees from Stanford in Computer Science and Psychology and then completed a PhD at MIT in synthetic biology where he switched from programming silicon to carbon. He has been involved in the field of synthetic biology for many years. He was an organizer of Synthetic Biology 1.0, the first international conference in synthetic biology in 2004, wrote the first registry for standard biological parts, and was a founder of OpenWetWare, a wiki promoting open science and collaboration for life science researchers.
Education
Stanford University
M.S. , Computer Science
Class of 2001Other Educations
2008
MIT
PhD , EECS
