HOWARD CHOU

Howard H. Chou graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in 2004, a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2005, and a Master of Engineering in 2005. He continued his studies at the University of California Berkeley, where he graduated in 2012 with a Doctor of Philosophy in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley and also attained the Management of Technology certification from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

In 2012, Howard H. Chou came to Shanghai, China and joined the biotechnology company, Cathay Industrial Biotech.  He served as the Chief Scientist of Molecular Biotechnology from 2012 to 2014, Director of Research and Development from 2014 to 2017, and the Vice President of Research and Development from 2017 to 2019. In 2019, he joined the Center for Synthetic Biochemistry at the Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a Professor-level Senior Engineer.

In the past, he has been an invited speaker to both academic and industrial conferences, including the Gordon Research Conference, SynBERC, Society for Industrial Microbiology, and the Bio-based Materials Conference.