Alyosha Molnar received his BS from Swarthmore College in 1997. Before entering graduate school he worked as a deck-hand on a commercial Tuna fishing boat, and as a RFIC design engineer for Conexant Systems where he developed their first-generation direct-conversion transceiver for the GSM cellular standard. In graduate school at U.C. Berkeley, Molnar worked on ultra-low-power radio transceivers for wireless sensor networks, before joining a retinal neurophysiology group where he worked on dissecting neural circuits in mammalian retinas. He joined the faculty at Cornell University in 2007, where he works on software-defined radios, neural interface circuits, and integrated imaging techniques.