Philip Romero is an assistant professor in the departments of Biochemistry and Chemical & Biological Engineering at UW-Madison. Dr. Romero pursued graduate studies in Frances Arnold’s lab at Caltech and was a postdoctoral researcher in Adam Abate’s lab at UCSF. He is the recipient of the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the Shaw Scientist Award, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Innovation Award. His research group at UW-Madison focuses on data-driven approaches to model and design biological systems.