Dr. Doug Densmore is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University
On March 25th, 2022, we spoke with Doug Densmore who works at the junction of computers and biology, including a cellular logic framework called Cello.
Doug grew up in rural Michigan where he loved Nintendo but realized he was unlikely to work for them giving is limited fluency in Japanese. Instead he went on to study computer engineering at Univ of Michigan, intern at Intel then pursue his PhD in Electrical Engineering at UC-Berkeley.
Through an NSF Engineering Research Center called SynBERC, he could apply his ideas about computer architecture to biology. Now Doug runs a research lab at Boston University, leading a team of undergrads, graduate students and post docs who build and test models to better predict how designed biological systems will operate in the real world