Dr. H. Tom Soh is a Professor at Stanford University with a joint appointment in the department of Electrical Engineering (School of Engineering) and Radiology (School of Medicine). He received his B.S. with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science with Distinction from Cornell University, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Between 1999 and 2003, he served as a technical manager of MEMS device research group at Bell Laboratories and Agere Systems. Between 2003 and 2015, he was the Ruth Garland Professor at UC-Santa Barbara (UCSB) in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials. His laboratory develops synthetic reagents and sensors to measure biomolecules in complex environments with high sensitivity and specificity. He has published over 100 journal articles in this field, which have been widely cited. He is a recipient of a number of prestigious awards including MIT Technology Review’s “TR 100” Award (2002), ONR Young Investigator Award (2004), Beckman Young Investigator Award (2005), ALA Innovator Award (2009), NIH Director’s TR01 Award (2009), John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2010), NIH Edward Nagy Award (2011), and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2012).  He was named a Chan-Zuckerberg Investigator in 2017.

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