Milestones

Key milestones and important events in this wiki's history

Received Ph.D. from Cambridge

1st December 1999

Completed his Ph.D. in computational biology from the University of Cambridge, UK (Churchill College).

Joined UC Berkeley Faculty

1st January 2004

Joined the Physics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, after working as a postdoctoral researcher and a divisional fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Received Innovator’s Award

1st January 2007

Was a recipient of the Mohr Davidow Ventures Innovator’s Award.

Secured $20M for OpenMind

1st August 2025

Announced a $20 million seed funding round for his company, OpenMind, to build an interoperable intelligence infrastructure for robotics.

Partnered with NEAR AI

1st December 2025

Announced a partnership with NEAR AI to integrate its private inference technology into OpenMind's robotics operating system for enhanced user privacy.

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