Jeff Nivala is a Research Assistant Professor and co-Director of the Molecular Information Systems Lab in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, and faculty in the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute. His lab is broadly focused at the intersection of biochemistry and technology, developing new methods for nanopore sensing, synthetic biology, and molecular information storage and processing. Before joining UW as faculty, Jeff completed his postdoctoral work with George Church at Harvard Medical School. He was a graduate student fellow of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) as a PhD student in the UCSC Nanopore Group with Mark Akeson, and a Washington Research Foundation Fellow in David Baker's lab during his undergraduate work at the University of Washington.