About
David Beck is Director of Research for Life Sciences with the eScience Institute, the UW’s nexus for Data Science and Research Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering. He received his BS in Computer Science from Drexel University in 2000 and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Biomolecular Structure & Design from Medicinal Chemistry in 2006. He did a post-doc in the Bioengineering department, also at UW, and joined the eScience Institute in 2009 and Chemical Engineering in 2011. The Beck Research Lab works on a variety of science problems at the intersection of Data Science, biology and chemistry with applications in energy, health and the environment.
He occasionally gives guest lectures in DEOHS and participates on student committees, as well as working for support for our Data Science program and supporting the faculty search committee.