Dr. Shailesh Date is Chief Executive Officer of the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems (LRC), an independent research institute that uses rigorous quantitative approaches to solve high-value problems in the sciences and the society. He is also Associate Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF and Chief Executive Officer of Silicogenix Inc. Dr. Date’s research primarily focuses on developing computational tools (biology, chemistry) to analyze complex biological systems, pathways and multi-input processes with the goal of identifying points of intervention. His group also studies fundamental biophysical properties of living systems, including biological associations, at various scales.