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Niles A. Pierce
Associate Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering, Acting Executive Officer and Option Representative for Bioengineering

B.S.E., Princeton University, 1993; D.Phil., D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1997. Senior Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech, 1998-2000; Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, 2000; Assistant Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, 2000-04; Assistant Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Bioengineering, 2004–.

Research: Programming biomolecular function. Biomolecular mechanisms for detection, transduction, amplification and locomotion. Computational algorithms for analyzing and designing nucleic acid systems. Biomolecular technologies for therapeutics, bioimaging, biosensing, and active transport.

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