Brief Academic Biography
Jeff Hasty received his Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute
of Technology in 1997. His dissertation advisor was Kurt Wiesenfeld
and his thesis topic centered on the development of a
renormalization group theory for avalanching systems. He was a
postdoc with Jorge Vinals at the Supercomputing Research Institute
in Tallahassee, Florida ('97-'98), and a postdoctoral fellow with
Jim Collins in the Applied BioDynamics Lab at Boston University
('98-'01). Somewhere during his postdoctoral stay at Boston
University, he mutated into a computational molecular biologist. In
2001-02, he became a Research Assistant Professor at BU, and he is
currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering
at the University of California, San Diego. His main interest is the
development of an engineering-based methodology for the design and
construction of synthetic gene regulatory networks.
