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(Interact with Students and IALS/UMass Faculty from 3-3:55 p.m.)
Dr. Reshma Shetty, Co-Founder Ginkgo Bioworks, President & Chief Operations Officer
Biography
Reshma Shetty co-founded Ginkgo Bioworks in 2008 and is the President, Chief Operating Officer and member of the board of directors. Reshma has been active in the field of synthetic biology for over 20 years, co-organizing the first international conference in the field in 2004. In 2008, Forbes magazine named Reshma one of Eight People Inventing the Future and in 2011, Fast Company named her one of 100 Most Creative People in Business. In 2014, Ginkgo became the first biotech company to participate in YCombinator. In 2018, Business Insider named her one of the most powerful female engineers. In 2019, BIO recognized Reshma with the Rosalind Franklin Award for Leadership in Industrial Biotechnology and Agriculture. In 2021, Ginkgo Bioworks became a publicly traded company on the NYSE with the stock ticker DNA. Since 2022, Reshma has been a member of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Science Board. Reshma Shetty has a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. in Biological Engineering from MIT.