Siddharth Dey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He graduated from the Institute of Chemical Technology (Formerly: UDCT), Mumbai in 2006 with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. Thereafter, he worked with Professor David Schaffer and Professor Adam Arkin and received his Ph.D. in 2012 from the University of California, Berkeley. Next, he conducted post-doctoral research in Professor Alexander van Oudenaarden's group at the Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands before moving to UC Santa Barbara in 2017. Dr. Dey’s group develops novel single-cell sequencing technologies to study how variability in the epigenome regulates gene expression heterogeneity and cell fate decisions during mammalian development.