About
Dan Greenfield is the co-founder and CTO of PetaGene, where he has led development of the genomics compression software PetaSuite, which received Best of Show awards at BioIT World in 2016, 2018, and 2019. His earlier work spans software and hardware roles at Silicon Valley companies, including designing an FP16 shader for GPUs and architecting SIMD media processors and networking stacks at a startup later acquired by nVidia. His PhD dissertation, which addressed computer architecture, network organization, and the human brain, won the 2011 BCS Distinguished Dissertation Prize, and he was a recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
CEO at Petagene
Intro paths
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Co-founders at Petagene
Experience
- PetaGeneCo-founder and CTOcurrent2026 — present
- PetaGeneCo-founder and VP of Engineering2024 — 2026
- PetaGeneCo-founder and CEO2015 — 2024
- StorjVP of Engineering2024 — 2026
- cunoFSCo-founder and CEO2022 — 2024
- StorleapFounder and CEO/CTO2010 — 2016
- iReady Corporation (Santa Clara, CA)Team Lead, ASIC Design Engineer2001 — 2004
- Intensys (San Jose, CA)ASIC Architect and Design Engineer2000 — 2001
- SGI (Mountain View, CA)Intern, then Contractor1998 — 1999
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Dan Greenfield?
- Dan Greenfield is the co-founder and CTO of PetaGene, where he has led development of the genomics compression software PetaSuite, which received Best of Show awards at BioIT World in 2016, 2018, and 2019. His earlier work spans software and hardware roles at Silicon Valley companies, including designing an FP16 shader for GPUs and architecting SIMD media processors and networking stacks at a startup later acquired by nVidia. His PhD dissertation, which addressed computer architecture, network organization, and the human brain, won the 2011 BCS Distinguished Dissertation Prize, and he was a recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
- Where does Dan Greenfield work?
- Dan Greenfield is CEO of Petagene.
- What companies did Dan Greenfield found?
- Dan Greenfield founded Petagene.
- Where did Dan Greenfield go to school?
- Dan Greenfield studied at University of Cambridge (PhD, winner of BCS award for top dissertation in the UK 2011 (Computer Science)); UNSW (MSc, Bioinformatics / Systems Biology).
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