Dave Zhang, PhD

David Zhang is Co-founder and CEO of Biostate AI, a startup with the mission of developing generative AI that can benefit all of human health.

Zhang is a scientist turned entrepreneur focusing on breakthrough product development at the intersection of generative AI and multiomics. He was formerly the Ted Law Jr. Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University, co-founder of Nuprobe Global and Torus Biosystems. Zhang is an inventor on 40+ patent and has co-authored 50+ peer-reviewed publications.

Zhang received his Hertz Fellowship in 2006, and with its support pursued his PhD in computation and neural systems at the California Institute of Technology. His thesis, “Dynamic DNA Strand Displacement Circuits”, recapitulated his 10 graduate publications in the field of DNA nanotechnology. As a postdoc, Dave was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation, and worked at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard Medical School.

In his spare time, Dave enjoys reading nonfiction (particularly economics and game theory), and playing board games.