Raymond Mccauley

Raymond McCauley is a scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur working at the forefront of biotechnology. Raymond explores how applying technology to life — biology, genetics, medicine, agriculture — is affecting every one of us. He uses storytelling and down-to-earth examples to show how quickly these changes are happening, right now, and where they may head tomorrow. His work and profile have been featured in Wired, Forbes, Time, CNBC, Science, and Nature.

Raymond is Chair of Digital Biology at Singularity University, a Silicon Valley think tank devoted to training leaders about exponential technologies; Co-founder and Chief Architect for BioCurious, the hackerspace for biotech, a not-for-profit where professional scientists, DIYbio hobbyists, and entrepreneurs come together to design the next big thing to come out of a Silicon Valley garage; Part of the team that developed next-generation DNA sequencing at Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN), where he worked in bioinformatics, cancer sequencing, and personal genomics.

Raymond’s postgraduate work includes studies at Texas A&M University, Stanford, and UC Berkeley in electrical engineering, computer science, biophysics, biochemistry, bioinformatics, and nanotechnology. He has previously worked with Illumina, Ingenuity Systems, Genomera, TANSTAAFL Media, QIAGEN, Viatel, NASA, and other government agencies around the world. Raymond develops and advises a variety of companies and organizations, including Miroculus (simplifying molecular testing), Innit (connecting people and food), Basepaws (animal genomics), Betterhumans (systems biology for enhancement), Androcyte (longevity genomics research), FREDsense (molecular sensing), Retispec (early detection for Alzheimer's), Nano kit (DNA origami), Conservation X Labs (not-for-profit, using unconventional leverage to stop the extinction crisis), Science Debate (not-for-profit promoting science and tech policy discussions), OpenWorm (not-for-profit simulating organisms and brains), and the Platypus Project. Raymond serves on the editorial board for The Journal of Precision Medicine. Raymond’s favorite project is raising his twin boys to be superheroes.