Patrick Hsu is a Co-Founder of the Arc Institute and an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, where he also serves as a Deb Faculty Fellow. His lab merges biology, engineering, and AI to create cutting-edge tools for genetic programming and design. Hsu earned his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and the Broad Institute, where he was instrumental in advancing CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing. His contributions have earned recognition from MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35, Forbes’ 30 Under 30, the NIH Early Independence Award, the Amgen Young Investigator Award, and the Rainwater Prize for Innovative Early Career Scientist.