Nate earned his B.S. from UC Santa Barbara in Chemical Engineering, his M.S. from UC Irvine in Biochemical Engineering, and his PhD from UC Riverside in Bioengineering.

Nate has been involved in multidisciplinary projects during and beyond graduate school. These range from combining bio-nanotechnology strategies to exotic engineered viruses, contributing to cancer research, and using DNA for computer digital encoding technologies. He has produced numerous high impact journal articles, magazines, review articles, and patents while gaining awards and worldwide accolades during his bioengineering doctorate in 2007.

Nate's interests include movies, reading, training, tennis, swimming, web, and biotech.