David Sun Kong's Biography

David Sun Kong, Technical Staff, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

David Sun Kong is a Synthetic Biologist, community organizer, musician, and photographer based in Lexington, MA. He conducted his graduate studies at MIT’s Media Laboratory, receiving a masters for developing technology for printing nanostructures with energetic beams and a Ph.D. for demonstrating the first gene synthesis in a microfluidic (“lab-on-a-chip”) system. He was an inaugural fellow for the Synthetic Biology Leadership Accelerator Program (LEAP) and serves as a mentor for the current class of fellows. He is chairing a new Hardware Track for the International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition (iGEM), served as guest faculty at the Marine Biology Lab in Woods Hole, and currently conducts synthetic biology, microfluidics, and digital fabrication research at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory with a focus on open-source hardware and democratizing technology.