Kaushik Bhattacharya is Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Professor of Materials Science as well as the Vice-Provost at the California Institute of Technology. He received his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1986, his Ph.D from the University of Minnesota in 1991 and his post-doctoral training at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences during 1991-1993. He joined Caltech in 1993. His research concerns the mechanical behavior of solids, and specifically uses theory to guide the development of new materials....Read more
Dr. Ng is the Chief Scientific Officer, co-founder and co-inventor at GC Therapeutics, Inc. (GCTx), a VC-backed cell therapy company with the first genome-scale cell landscape exploration approach using an integrated synthetic biology and AI-driven platform for cell programming. He co-founded GCTx alongside Prof. George Church and Dr. Parastoo Khoshakhlagh based on his PhD work at Harvard and co-first-authored the Nature Biotechnology publication that describes the technology. GCTx has won Golden Tickets from Amgen and Biogen, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day Prize and YEi...Read more
