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Samuel King

Bioengineering Phd Candidate

Stanford University

May 2026, SynBioBeta

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Samuel King is a Ph.D. candidate in Bioengineering at Stanford University and the Arc Institute, advised by Dr. Brian Hie in the Laboratory of Evolutionary Design. He researches AI for biology, with the goal of understanding and designing genome-scale systems to improve human and planet health. Samuel works at the interface of computational and experimental biology, recently contributing to efforts developing the genome language models Evo 1 and Evo 2 and leading the creation of the world's first functional AI-generated genomes. He previously earned his M.S. from Stanford and his B.Sc. Hons. from the University of British Columbia.

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