Dr. Yatish Turakhia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), with affiliations in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BISB) graduate program. Prior to joining UCSD, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Genomics Institute, UC Santa Cruz. Dr. Turakhia earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2019 and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in 2014. He is a recipient of the MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 award, Hellman Fellowship, Jacobs Early Career Award, Amazon Research Award, NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship, and multiple paper awards.