John P. Sadowski

Background

About John P. Sadowski

I'm a scientist combining extensive technical and policy expertise in emerging technologies, including AI, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology, with broad experience in outreach and entrepreneurship. I was most recently currently a Technical Analyst at the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, where I researched the health and safety implications of emerging technologies, including spearheading a framework to apply the established principles of workplace risk assessment towards controlling the hazards of AI in the workplace from an end-user perspective. I also served as the NIOSH Wikipedian-in-Residence, where I contributed and improved Wikipedia articles on workplace health and safety topics as a high-visibility means of public outreach. Prior to that, I have 14 years of research experience specializing in materials applications of DNA nanotechnology. Specifically, I developed dynamic nucleic acid systems with the ability to respond to and control their chemical and physical environment in intricate ways, and the computational methods by which these systems can be designed. I did my dissertation work in Peng Yin's lab at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, and before that worked with Peter Dervan at Caltech and Nadrian Seeman at NYU.