Dr. Liachko is the Founder/CEO and Chief Scientist of Phase Genomics and one of the inventors of their core technology. He received his B.S. at Brandeis University, his Ph.D. at Cornell University, and went on to do his postdoctoral work in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. He has authored more than 50 academic papers and a number of patents in the field of genomics and synthetic biology. He founded Phase Genomics in 2015 and leads the organization in an executive as well as technical roles.