Spencer Hart Winter, a bioengineering PhD student at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). 

     Spencer is drawn to making totally unique things. He has blown molten glass, built monsters, and programmed cellular automata that generate beautiful mathematical patterns for cross stitch. Now, he is pursuing a PhD to continue to bring that drive for the novel and the unique to science. 
     Spencer is a NSF-GRFP fellow, a Goldwater Scholar, a Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar, and a CSU Trustees’ Scholar. He has inspired his peers to consider STEM through a creative lens, and he has contributed to the first ever textbook in his field of molecular programming.