David Soloveichik is an Associate Professor holding the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship No.4 in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He leads the Solo-Group and is affiliated with the Center for Advanced Research in Software Engineering (ARISE). He earned undergraduate and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Harvard University and a PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from Caltech, where his dissertation received the Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize. His research pioneers Molecular Programming —engineering molecular systems from first principles for synthetic biology and nanotechnology—while exploring theoretical connections between distributed computing and molecular information processing. He develops chemical kinetics-based programming languages using DNA hybridization and investigates unconventional computing models including analog, reversible, and quantum systems. Dr. Soloveichik’s major awards include: Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (Theory) (2012) Tulip Award (2014) NSF CAREER Award (2016) Sloan Research Fellowship (2020) Schmidt Sciences Polymath Award (2023) He actively recruits graduate students and postdocs for interdisciplinary projects spanning RNA bioinformatics, DNA nanotechnology, and quantum computation. His group recently welcomed new members Tony and Hamidreza (Spring 2024) and he co-chairs the 2024 DOE/ASCR Workshop on Analog Computing for Science.






